The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-27

! l waved aside the suggestion
1T is narrow-rninded of you, Polly
! | said virtuousy Ito take theoretical
argumetn personally (Polly loosene1
| the chiffon bow under her Chin. The
( picture hat" | went on. oratoricaly, lis
the symbol of femininity In the very
curls of it'll roses turks the cause of the
undoin gof man. 1t seems to be saying
constantly, This. underneath me, is a
woman. The ribbons on its brim echo
Woman and is chiffon streamers. fly
ing in the breeze, whisper Woman!
Figuratively speaking, the picture hat
is"
anything frilly and fluffy and allur-
ing broke in Polly. Cleopatra wore a
picture hat didn't she, when she wore
bangles and spangles and floating dra-
1 peries? And Eve wore picture hat"
I'VE have no historical evidence of
that I objected
Then she offered Ada mthe apple
went on Polly, ignoring me. And so did
Helen Of Troy, and Nine. Pompadour and
Nell Gwynn. ard Josephine, and all the
others If they had worn fedoras and
linen collars, for instance, INSTEAD OF
flowers and feathers. the worlds history
would have been, entirely different. It
has always been the little woman in lace
who smells of violets and rustles as she
walks who has been the power behind the
throne and not the Amazon with the big
! voice.. and more kings and nations have
been downtrod6en and walked over Ivy
pair of dainty French heels than by COM
! nonsense boots. You don't suppose q girl
would spend an hour a day brushing her
hair and another steamng her face and
another at the dressmaker's in the agony
of being fitted, if IL wasn't in order to
please some man. do you? You don't
fancy she would pull her stays in until
they almost gave her indigestion just in
order to prove that her waist only meas
ured eighteen inches, or that she would
wear shoes so tight and heels so high
that she nearly topples over at every
! step. or that"
NO, no. no, l don't. Polly" l cried.
And l do love your frily hats and your
ridiculous shoes and your fuzzy pompa-
dour''
Polly smiled sweety.
Then III take you out to luncheon
she said. because I've been maxim glots
of money"
LbA- L SAOPPNN III III AT VI teAhAiA5
down my overcoat
1T was this way" said Polly, taking
crumpled newspaper from out the folds
of her shirt waist and spreading it fiat
across her knees You see, ImOgen
Brown is a particular friend of mine and
l alawys help her when l can poor girl,
So last week. when she came TO me with
her hair struggling down in her eyes and
wearing a shirt waist and a skirt that
wouldn't meet in the back. and threw
manuscript in my lap Vowing she was
going to give up literature and go in for
trained nursing, | ted her
"WeH?" | suggested. as Polly hesitated.
We'll. ! told har to pin up her front
hair and put little powder on her nose,
and I'd see what | could do to help her"
And what did you do?"
oh / just went upstairs and put on
my prettiest hat-you know the one with
the pink roses and my Bernhardts aand
my brown chiffon dress with the dangly
things all over it. and pinned Oh bunch
of violets. and then | took the manu-
script and her list of editors and went
to see the very first one on the list
and"
Polly Lee. how could you?"
"Oh it was awfully easy. Imogen says
you can't get past the office boy half
the time. but il was just as easy pick
ing up voets. l think the editor tells
them what kind of girls to let in. And
when he read MY mean Imogen' s-arti-
Gle
"Who-the Office boy?'
THE editor, Mr.. Heavyfeather. When
g, la h..
asking me questions about my theories
and what 1 thought Of lsben and Car
lyle"
And what did YOU say?'
ooh ] asked him If they were editors.
and told him how [ had always longed
to meet real live editor. and how l had
always imagined they were horrid and
that 1 had never thought it possible that
they could be young--'
Polly. YOU didn't
And courteous
Polly Lee
"And-good looking-betore"'
Polly you imp
And he bought it. Mr. Heavyfeather.
and here it is in print. with imogen's
name in great black letters at the top.
and here's a check for $40
Polly. you're BRICK" declared
catching both her hands and peeping down
under her picture hat. You're jolly
little brick! And I'm going to-kiss you
on the nose" and / did.
"Oh. | thought YOU were going TO say
you would take me to luncheon. said
Polly. looking up at me with infantile
guilelessneSs. and wiping her nose with
the end of her lace handkerchief
You deserve il" | declared
"Oh. no. I don't" broke in Polly. 81
didn't do anything
Who sold that article for Imogcn
them
The hat" sad Polly
Then Wen take the hat
And the chiffon dress
And the chiffon dress
And the danglcs-''
And the dangles-''
And the frills-"
And the frills-''
To Du Points for luncheon. Helen
/ Rowland in Washington Post.
AMERICANS IN KOREA.
Americans have an electric street rail-
way in Seoul. and a gold-mine in the
north which employs nifty or sixty for
/ eigners and l.2oo Koreans and pays into
the imperial treasury an annual royalty Of