The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

The Topeka girls have the lingerie
hat craze and there are many anna
feur milliners in the local smart set
Tor the principal point of the lingerie
hat Is that il is home made And
now that the girls have taken up
the work they ind themselves quite
as adept at hat building as at gown
building. 1t is TO be hoped this pres
ent lad for making ones own frocks
and summer hats viii last. it is at
once so womanly and so useful Eco
nomical2 Well. that's different OF
course that's always the argument,
every time you want a new one, but
by the time a girl has a special hat
Tor every gown the cost counts up
even II she does make them herself.
Misc Jeanette Lord, who always
wears lovely clothes, makes all her
own summer dresses and is one of
the most capable as well as stunning
looking girls in town, started it. She
emade herself a charming white val
lace hat and all the other girls raved
about it Immediately half the girls
in her set bought bolts of white val
lace, wide or narrow, wire hat frames
and some ribbons or towers fo1 trim
ming and built hats for themselves.
.Al@o Miss Lord has a pink organdie
hat a wide, fiat shape, with n big
low crown and the brim simply three
circular pieces of organdie, one laid
over the other and the ripping edges
neatly hemmed- 1t is trimmed with
TlODOn-
Hazel Fassler has one like it only blue,
and Miss Sue Gay of Kansas City who
As visiting here this week also wears
= blue one. Miss Florence RossinS-
tons is white organdie. Miss Helen
wilson made her own white lace hat
OF rune on ruff1e OF narrow val lace
Miss Eleanor Wheeler has one similar
but made of wider lace.
One of the prettiest white embroid-
cry hats seen in Topeka this summer
was worn by Mrs. Charles Kitchell
OF Galveston while she was visiting
here earlier in the season.
The Casino was a little crowded,
especially the balcony. 1t was quite
all right for any number to come
alone. and still Mrs. Larry did feel a
noticed a shy looking girl in big black
hat without a table she leaned over
hers and said: Won't you sit down
here?"
The pale girl smiled into sudden
dimples and prettiness, and said it
was so nice of her in a way that
made them friends. You will have
the table all to yourself" Mrs. Larry
went on II am just waiting for"
She paused and bIushed. She's only
been married since June.
The pale girl laughed softly. so
an I" she admitted.
Are you married - Mrs. Larry de-
manded, big-eyed- Now that she had
Become a matrOn she felt that mar
rage made difference. which differ |
ence the pale girl didn't show
No" the pale girl admitted shy
Engaged" Mrs Larry jumped at
It delighted.
Il don't even know for sure that
he will be here the girl Went on
letting the engagement statement
stand always used to be here last
year. and
ooh. did you quarrel?'' Mrs. Larry
was all SvmDathy
The pale girl let that statement
stand. too. 81 saw he was here" she /
went on. "and never said a word |
20 mamma, but just dropped him a lit
tie line and said Here"
Il hope he'll come" said Mrs. Lar
~, even more sympathetic. Maybe |
he'll come before my husband does |
Sh! don't notice my telling you but |
we had a tin, too. today. 1 told him
4 should not be here, but bless himl /
he'll know 1 will and I'm sure he'll
come"
IT hope he WILL" said the pale girl.
rs yours handsome? % inquired Mrs.
Larry. and went right on without wait
ing for an answer. Mine is. in a
q regular baby; 1 wind him right
around my finger
mine is not handsome" the girl
said contemptuousIy; hes strong and
That's all very well to be engaged
10, but
There he is" 1t was the pale girl
who spoke. adding: "He went out
that door and never saw mel"
There he is,''-it was Mrs. Larry
this time-''hurrying as fast as he
can down the-do excuse me. I guess
he thought 1 couldn't be here, for
he never looked. I'll run along and h
try to reach home first. 1 wish / had
seen yours You stop here; he's sure
TO look in here again. Good-by."
But the pale girls didn't look in
here again, and Mrs. Larry found
ner husband fast asleep on the piazza
sofa, land breathing just as hard
rou foolish thing, as If you had been
And this was such a short time
lgo that neither of them yet knows
shich of them he went to see at the
Casino.
For full six weeks hereabouts she
rad moused her way behind her ra-
liant sister The latter was 1.-The
beautiful Japonica Ware" the belle
II the season-no one denied that
md if any one thought to speak of ]
he mouse-like relative it was to say:
oh, yes, she's her sister; they say
ne writes some" Now and then the