The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-16

since her girlhood. who belongs in this
class. She has fetching white India
] linen tub suit this summer made with
a deep tucked yoke in waist and skirt
which, worn with her white sailor hat
and long white chiffon veil, makes a
| typical summer girl toilet.
The eastern visiting girl had been
taken for an evening drive by the most
attractive and agreeable young man
her hostess could press into the SER
vice. The eastern visiting girl had
been in town two weeks and during
that time she had had what the aver
age summer girl would agree was a
good time" There had been pic
MICS and dances and luncheons and
dinners in her honor, all the men
had called, a good many of them
had taken her motoring or driving
and all her hostess's particular girl
friends had entertained for her. New
ertheless she was still working the
supercilious and critical eastern man
ner regarding all things western and
this particular man, although he ac-
knowledged that 'she wore glad rags
and was very easy to look at had
only taken her for the drive because
he was so indebted TO her hostess,
didn't like it. She made fun of To-
peka and Topeka people and pointed
out the many respects in which they
zation until he finally decided that he
could stand it no longer.
Things are so different here from
what they are in washington" she
never go driving In the evening with
men,"
This was the Topeka mans oppor-
tunity.
ITS the same way here" he said
coolly. That's why we fellows have
to take girls from out of town."
1t is now the proper caper, says a
TO entertain dinner companies COM
posed of persons of all ages. In the
ultra-fashionable set the members sell
dom entertain company in which
the guests are of similar age and po-
sition, since the other sort of dinner
is far Hvelier, with bud girls mixed
in with worldly-wise matrons and the
men varying from callow youths to
old widowerS. At the larger enter
tainments. of course, there is the
same mixture. In former days a host
ess chose as guests friends and their
friends, but this had narrowing in
the iGea of these "all-age" dinners
was Mrs. Ogden Mills. She always
has at her dinners her daughters
friends, and her own This arrange
ment makes necessary a large dinner
table, of course. At house parties
the same arrangement is preserved.
mo fewer than six times in the
last forty years has the outline of a
woman's figure been changed" a mod
ing into fashion again.
I'm the middle COS the fashion
able figure was neat, with a small
waist in the place where a waist ought
to be. Next appeared those short
wasted shapes which squeezed the
figure above the natural waist line.
Then came the long, slim figures
of the sos, with the waist compressed
as far as possible into the hips, while
in the next decade we had the waist
and bullying above and below. The
fifth change came with the straight
front wide WASTED fashion and now
we have the 'Grecian bend
1.-The origin of the 'Grecian bend
is shrouded in mystery, but it prob
ably originated through the tightness
of the fashionable dress few decades
ago, when women could only bend
backward and forward.
I'm this position the body bends
are stiffened, while the backbone is
straight. 1t has certainly some grace
to recommend it, but it will look woe
fully out of place in the revived 1880
costumes.
A device for obtaining the effect is the
wide series of shirrs extending through
the center of the top portion.
White linen parasols are decorated
with needlework of many kinds. One
has a deep border extending more
than half its depth, which is made up
of eyeIet embroidery. The eyelets are
worked with Delft blue. Another has
row of large rings encircling it's
edge. These are filled in with deep
red and blue Mexican stitches. The
third has a straight border of Russian
cross stitch in red and pale blue.
Shoes are laced from the top down.
ward now. What is the use of lovely
ribbons and the bow out of sight?
The Butcher, with big eyelets far
apart, is tied at the toe with a natty
knot.
A very effective finish for the white
mousseline de sole skirt is a series
of broad, graduated bands of white
taffeta, extending fully half its length.
The petticoat with several adjust
able f1ounces has not yet, it is whis-
pered. seen the height of it's popu-
larity. In this country it is some
thing of a novelty still. But women
returning from Europe bring back
with them these petticoats, which