The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-28


business transactions or recall a tim e
when the mothers father ran a ped
dler's wagon. He makes some boast
full remark about her brother, and I
tell him that the girls in his crowd
call him a tight wad. I'm all adj
miratiOn and respect for the lady of
his heart because recognize a man S
right to make a fool of himself over
a woman. but I can't bear to see him
erecting a pedestal for a lot of kin
that he's sure to quarrel with later.
There's one member of the family
that nobody knows until he marrieS
into it, and that's the family skeleton,
but after you meet him you somehow
don't stand in much awe of the rest
of the bunch"
1.-THE girls are just as bad said the
Oracle, although I hate to admit it.
Let girl conceive a fancy for a man
and it is simply pitiful the way she
drivels over his mother and sisters and
all the rest of his family. She is al
ways telling you the smart sayings of
his little brother and his small nieces
and nephews are really. the only bright,
healthy interesting children in town.
She raves over his sisters clothes,
quotes his fathers opinions and thinks
his mother has such beautiful gray
hair. The only persons connected with
him that she doesn't gush over are his
other sweethearts.
But 1 can stand it better from her
when her lover is one of the town men
because as you suggest, in that case /
can call her down. I know them myself
and am perfectly aware that there is
nothing extraordinary about them. But
when she has lover who lives out of
town and whose family I have never
met, have simply no recourse but to
listen in patience and no way of put
ting a. brake to her ina ginatiOn. The
girl who has an out of town lover has
the best time in the world telling her
friends at home what q grand family
she is about to marry into. 1 suppose
it is because most of US Americans are
not more than two generations from
the dirt that we all make so much of
what we rather vaguely term good
family. I have heard all sorts of breeds
described as well born and when a. girl
falls in love with a man that is the
first thing she let's you know about his
people: that they are very aristocraT1c.
If they have money of course nobody
doubts it but if they are poor she must
go to a little more trouble to let you
know how it happened. However, they
are usually rich-if you have never
seen them and have no way of know
ing the contrary. The young man may
be working for $50 a month here in
Topeka but his people-aWay off some
where are rolling in wealth. His moth
er and sisters think no more of going
abroad than you do of going to Chicago.
They live in the grandest houses and
move in the most exalted society. Most
girls who marry out of town men are
going to Europe on their wedding jour
ney YOU know, although something US
ualy happens to postpone the trip IN
definitely.
when I hear a girl Dragging about
her husbands people am always re-
minded of a pretty little housemald we
had once. I met her out walking with
good looking young chap one evening
and asked her about him the next
morning. She was astonished to think
l didn't know all about him. She said
raj a
Where does he HVe?' asked her %,
he's staying down at the hotel she an
sWered. Porter 1 asked. NO, IN
deed she said in high scorn. He's
Michigan-they' awful wealthy.
Then added after a minute during
which I tried to appear properly i'm
pressed, Maybe he'll go to work in a
barber shop here
The summer fashions offer nothing
more stunning than the Hardanger
embroidery for shirt waist suits ana
more elaborate toilets. There are at
least two professional needlework wo-
men in town who teach it and two
places where the proper materials are
sold. Mrs. ALT EIingenberg, who re
Gently returned from New York, says
that all the fashionable shops are
selling it and that the most handsome
summer toilets have it for all en-
Enlistment. The Hardanger is a Nor
NNeR1an elnOIOlQGIy ana as MIS- IAilll5-
enberg is a native of Norway and
learned the work at home, she is
much interested in its introduction
here. The embroidery trims linen,
crash, scrim and similar fabrics eX-
quisitely. 1t is very effective and
even the most elaborate patterns are
said not to be difficult for women ex-
perienced in edlework. The cuftS,
collar and front plat sets sell for from
SO up, but the expense if one does
them ones self is a trifle. A linen
shirt waist suit may have only the
turnover cuff and front plat en-
broidered or it may be more elabor-
ate with broad bands of the embroid-
cry trimming the skirt and with a deep
pointed collar or bertha in an aA-over
design
Chfldren's fashions follow those of
their elders, as far as fabrics and gen
eral outlines are concerned. Little
girls have two faYOrite styles, the one
piece Russian suit, quite the most ap-
prOpriate for everyday wear, and the
bretelle frock with full or plated
skirts, bloUses. and bretelles, or Shout
der straps, of the skirt material. This
style is well suited to thin children.
Challie is a delightful material for lit
tie girls breteIle dresses. Such a
pretty one was made of cream color
ed challie with small pink flowers in
the design. The skirt was plated, and