The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-05


scratcher for your best chum who
helps you make over your party
froeks, shampoos your hair, takes you
around to do your errands in her old
the back street. helps you out of all
your scrapes and makes up all your
lovers quarrels for you.
"You buy for father something you
want for the house and for mother
something that will be becoming to you
when you borrow it.
Never is it so true that to him (and
herr who hath shall be given as at
Christmas time. There's my cousin
Bob. When Bob was rushing that
heiress from San Francisco, who visit
ed the Markhams, he bought her the
grandest things he could pay for or
go in debt for. OF course you might
argue that he expected to get his
money back, but whatever his motives
may have been, he lavished such gifts
upon her as made everybody wonQer at
the elasticity of salary OF S15O
month. American Beauties at 50
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS when dfa-
monds would have been almost as
cheap-bunches of violets as big as
YOUR head-exquiSite pins and Things
of the sort that sound 1nexpenslve ID. anu u
twenty dollar bill. There was always
a cab in front of the Markhams door
and Bob paid for 1t.
sHe took her and the Markham
girls every place and the nrst Cnr ISL
mas after she went home he sent her
a gold chain bag that must nave cost
$3.50. In fact, he confessed TO me
that it took him two years TO recover
from the financial panic resultlng
from that little fling. Well as you
know she married the Englishman the
next June and Bob married Lucy
year or so afterwards. 1 suppose ne
snent if all on the heireSS and to be
sure it would be ridiculous for poor
little Lucy, in her home made clothes
sweet and pretty as she Always
looks-to go about carrying Wow
bag And of course what he saved
on American beauties before they were
married comes in nicely for house rent
and gas bills now. I'm not crltlclslng'
and I know Lucy would never think
of doing so, but the Christmas before
they were engaged he gave her a
pretty little bracelet like the one caro-
line gave for a prize at the WHIST
club last week and the next year she
got her engagement ring-two birds
with one stone, you see-and now
that they are married she gets some
thing she wants for the house and
has it charged to him. o, of course,
Lucy wasn't an heiress and he de-
clares that he cares more for her
than he did for the San Francisco
girl, and that ought to satisfy her and
I suppose it does. Anyway it's not
the other girl and she had sent his
presents back and Lucy had had to
take them second hand.
'No, I'm convinced that there's very
little genuine feeling connected with
Christmas giving and 1 don't think it
am cunts to much, except for children
who are happy with anything new
and who are too young to draw COM
parsons. There's a whole lot of hum
bug and hypocrisy ana heartburning
for grOwnups in the blessed Yuletfde
season. If the truth were told only
a few presents are given willingly and
low 10 a
who receive them The rest are
matter of duty OF fancied duty
81 suppose then you're going to cut
them all out this year and start
reform of your own" said the Debu-
tante.
well, not exactly" the Oracle hest
tated. There are few think
really must remember-I'm so indebt-
How many?" demanded the De-
butante relentleSSly.
well I really like to give some
Christmas presents-ny family and
anything if I didn't give something.
How many? Let me see; really not
very many this year-perhaps-you
know I have SO many kin. Well. yes,
forty anyway. Laugh! Who caresi
still insist that reform is needed
and next year 1 really intend to start
it,
Some oId-fashioned men and wom-
en- of limited intellect think that gifted
women should not marry. They say
that they do not make devoted wives,
as their minds are welded to the art
or science or profession in which they
excel; that they are not fitted for
Observation-Disclosures they are clever
and sensitive and alertly sympathetic,
apparently
Could greater nonsense be con-
ceived? 1t is RELOCATING to the in
ferior woman the most important du
ties of life. No woman is too clever
to be a successful mother; very few
are clever enough. Kindness, affec-
ton, patience and unseIhshness are
not enough. Quick wit, Judgment,