The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

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man accounts for a head like that To
her intimate friends, 1 mean, her fam
lily and others who might be expected
to remark upon such metamorphosis.
NOW her husband, for instance: what
does she say to him? Does she simply
ignore the situation and are the hus-
bands OF all chemical blondes, cowed
and Subdued that they wouldn't dare to
ask question II a woman's hair turn
ed sky blue in night? She might be-
gin paving the way for a change some
weeks in advance by occasionally re-
marking something like this: I wonder
what's in that new shampoo of mine :?
It's turning my hair quite red Or
maybe she doesn't say anything about
1t until somebody else mentions it and
then brazenS it out with Why my
dear. it was always like this! Did you
never notice? It may be that it looks
different now I wear 1t straight and
severe with the plain center part and
the low smooth coils instead of that
mussy pompadour.' But perhaps (and
on the whole it would be the best way)
she just calmly announces to everyone
she meets. You see I'm redding my
hair-how do you like 1t? o, wore it
the other way SO long I wanted a
change-those burnt orange shades
have gotten so common you know"
Another thing" she went on, jump
ing to the new subject with the prac-
ticed agility which makes her f1atulent
garrulity one of the seven wonders of
the world, that I'd like to ask is why
the society reporters when they an
nounce the engagements and record the
marriages leave out all the interesting
details and waste time on such mean
ingless trifies as where the bride was
educated and what clubs the groom
belongs to; who her grandfather was
and what she wore at the wedding.
What / want to know when 1 hear
about wedding or meet people who
haven't been married long enough to
cease to be interesting subjects for fan
ciful conjecture is which, if either is
crazy about the other and which indif-
ferent; whether she wanted him more
than anyone else in the world or Wheth-
er she took him because he was willing
and somebody else wasn't; whether he
was more in love with her or less in
love with boarding; if either had mon
ey or position, or any of those material
benefits which are some times said to
offer inducements, with which to endow
the other. I don't care a whoop wheth-
er her gown is of satin or Renaissance
lace or her bouquet shower or
spray, but I always wonder-when I
don't happen to know-how many times
she's been engaged, if her mother made
the match; what size allowance she's
been used to and whether she's to in
crease it or not; If she can cook and
make her own clothes; if he has a good
disposition; if she knows enough to
conceal her own jealousy and not to ex-
cite his and if he likes her kin. Vulgar
curiosity? Well, know it. Did 1 say
it wasn't?''
She stopped long enough to take a
good breath as they swung the corner
grounds and then babbled on: st say,
was dawdling away a lonesome even
ing over a pile of Sunday supplements
and wOmen's magazines week or SO
ago-learnfng all about how to be happy
though married, how to keep young
and beautiful, to battle baby and
dress well on 800 a year, and what to
serve for luncheon when company
empty, the telephone out Of order and
no one to send to market. You know
all the sum of wit and wisdom that
gets into the Woman's Page. 1t occur
red to me to keep count of the daily
duties of every True Woman as pre-
scribed by the heart to heart editors.
Well, to begin with, all authorities
agree that on rising in the morning ev-
cry daughter of Eve should throw open
her bedroom window and practice deep
breathing for at least five minutes;
take cold plunge and thorough rub
bling and devote not less than fifteen
minutes to physical culture exercises to
get up her circulation. The whole thing
couldn't take less than half an hour
and dressing would take at least that
long because no Womanly Woman ap-
pears before her family in dressing
sacque or with her hair otherwise than
perfectly 'coiffed.' Then she must get
in her fifteen minutes walk or run
Ground and round on the veranda if
nothing else is practicable or conven-
ient-don't you see yourself doing IT'D
and superintend the laying of the
breakfast table which must always
have some sort of decoration If only a
single fresh blossom or a bit of trailing
vine If she arises at seven o'clock
and follows all the directions with ex-
petition, she will, without allowing for
possible delays, be ready for breakfast
men keep no servants and have to pre-
pare their own breakfasts and others
work for a living and must be at their
place of business by o'clock but in
that case they must rise earlier or
marry rich husbands or make fortune
raising mushrooms, or manage some
way. I forgot to say that she must
drink a glass of cold water upon rising
and a. bowl of hot when she comes out
of her bath. After breakfast she has
nothing to do but get the children ready
for school, order luncheon and dinner,
do the marketing, oversee the house
hours exercise in the open air. mend
her gloves and skirt binding; (no wo-
man nowadays wears bindings on her
skirts, but just the same she is not a
gentie~1Snan unless she mends them)
brush her clothes; press her skirts;
wind her wells tightly around little silk
covered rollers made by her especially
for that purpose; put fresh ribbons in
her lingerie and new sachet powder In
her chiffonier pads; shampoo her hair;
brighten up an old waist with a new
stock; make croquettes, from day be-
fore yesterdays dinner, for luncheon;
(you see she is left no time to eat them.
but so much the better for her, no
doubt; take a half hour nap and
sun bath of fifteen minutes; change her
clothes for the afternoon and again for
dinner and make a salad and dessert
for the latter-anything will do that has
nuts, olives, maraschino cherries,
anchovy paste, whipped cream and
paprika in it, IL 1t is served on a let
tuce leaf.
"AI this anyone would be willing to
grant, would keep even a fairly spry
hug 1r,fil tirr1a have