The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-03

THE game worth the candle? |
The other day, in two blocks on |
Kansas avenue I met six women /
with six different tales of woe.
Look here" said one stopping /
short in front of me. Can you
tell me where I can find brass ban |
giles for that Moorish business" She |
wore an expression of positive desper- |
alton so I asked as soOthingly as I |
could What Moorish thing2"
THAT church bazaar business, she |
answered, almost ready for tears. i've |
looked the town over for brass bangles |
and I'm almost crazy. I've at last sue |
ceeded in borrowing a velvet zouave /
jacket SO I won't have to bother MAX |
ing one of them. But I must have a
Moorish headdresS thing, with brass
| bangles on 1t: Haven't you any idea
where can buy them? I've been to
every shop in town. You know the
sort I mean, crescents and stars and
things-I have some on a lamp shade
and bought them at Blanks two or
three years ago. but they don't keep
them any more.
q believe this bazaar will be the
death of me yet. Why did promise to
go into it? I'm head over heels in
work Of my own, with Christmas COM
, ing on and company for Thanksgiving
and now this thing that will keep me
/ busy three afternoons and nights to
/ say nothing Of the bother of getting a
! costume. Do you suppose could find
/ them at the ten-cent store or any of
those places. I believe III go see"
In the next block a wild-eyed, fran
] tic creature rushed up and seized my
arm. 1--WE Just been to Madame she
! exclaimed apropos of nothing at all so
/ far as / knew, land my gown isn't
| touched-actually isn't touched, and
I have to be at that dinner at seven
! o'clock tomorrow night-have to BE
/ THERE at seven because told Molly
| we'd come early-and the gown Not
| Touched. What do you think of that?
/ I get so furious at Madame 1 could
| strangie her-and I took it to her six
weeks ago.
Another woman who had stopped
long enough to hear the finish chimed
! in. "That's nothing" she said. II just
came from Miss Fits and I wouldn't
positively the worst ever. Actually the
! styles change before you can get any
/ thing home from the gown builders
nowadays. took my dress to her be-
/ fore went to Chicago and after go
| ing up there and seeing a lot Of new
things my ideas have changed entirely
and I really won't wear the thing the
way it is. I told her so. She said it
couldn't be changed now, SO she can
go on and finish it, but III never wear
it in the world
They swept on and I went into a
| shop and ran into a girl standing near
! the door anxiOuSly examining samples.
Us that a match % she demanded
| fercely, showing me a piece of rose
I coIored cloth and some silk ribbons of
similar shade. ITS for pleatings, you
know-accordeon pleatings. thought
ribbon, but I don't know but the silk
would do only it's more trouble and
I have had this woman in the house
/ six days now at two and half day.
might as well have sent it to Madame
1 in the first Piece and been through
with it. I'll never have anything made
/ in the house again. But if I don't get
it done I can't go to the wedding.
/ positively haven't one thing to wear.
Do tell me If that's match? I've
1 looked so long I can't see anything.
/ 1t may be brick red for all know. And
what kind Of a hat can I wear with it
1 Wasn't I a fool to buy a rose? It's the
/ hardest thing in the world to get a good
| combination with. I'll look very much
/ Tecumseh, you may be sure of that
Another girl came up just then with
| the same blown away appearance
which seemed characteristic of the
! whole world that morning and began
| ranting in this fashion: Did you ever
hear of anything worse than that
flower drill2 They're going to make
me be the buttereup. Do you know
how to dress to represent a buttercup?
I'm sure don't. I've been looking at
yeIlows all morning and can't ind a
thing I'd wear cheaper than two dol
lars a yard and I hope you don't think
I'm going to buy thati think it's the
meanest thing the way they took the
sunhower away from me for that's the
| easiest of all to get up. But m al
ways so easy everybody imposes upon
sswell, don't talk about the butter
cup.H shrieked the other one. TITS
nothing to the Violet Have you any
idea how much violets cost EVEN ar
tihcial ones mean. I'll not be able
to have any clothes all winter"
At the silk counter I found a woman
paving the bargains over wildly.
81 must have dress for the dance, -
she cried. II simply can't wear that
money enough to buy anything Fespec-
table like other peopIei I have to come
to the sales and look for bargafnsi Dc
you see anything here you'd have2 Do
tell me IL that pink is perfectly I'M
possibIe7 You know when you look
and worry and worry and look you get
SO you can't Judge or distinguish at all