The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04

state of congestion usual at that hour. |
The girl with the Mary Mannering eyes, !
who was evidently there for ornamental |
purposes, leaned across the counter of |
one of the charity booths and gossiped |
about the crowd with the girl In the |
rose colored velvet toque, DO you see
orchestra ?' she asked indicating a
rather ordinary looking young woman
in a blouse suit Enthusiastically ready
made. The other followed her glance
without much interest.
her?''
''Well." replied the girl with the
Mary Mannering eyes. shes the OBJ
long as I'm not the only daughter of
paying copper mine / wish I were that
girl over there in brown"
"She doesn't look so good to me-
draWled the girl in the rose colored
toque. her aristocratic indifference CIV
ing her slang an almost elegance. why
do you envy her?"
'She lives across the street from u.s.
said the girl in the booth ignoring the
question for the moment, land know
her rather well. They've lived there a
long time and in fact we were in the
same class in high school. OF course
! since we were graduated our ways have
rather drifted apart but we still chat
when we meet and the other night we
went home on the car together and she
told me she was going to be married
81 begin to see,'' said the girl in the
rose-colored toque who is really above
a fatuous remark of that sort but who
makes them as most other people do,
because it is the custom.
| mo, wait." said the other girl. THAT
is her young man with her, so you see
| it is not ordinary mating-season Jea1-
ousy. Of course they're not our sort
4 and / have no doubt that If we knew
her mind, she'd be rather inclined to
envy us, though just now. with that
young man of hers and her wedding
day in close view, her future looks
| about the color of your hat to her, and
1 don't believe she'd change places with
us. I'm sure she wouldn't with me, If
she were wise. For that girls situation
has mine beaten city block, in every
respect. She's happier than can ever
! hope to be and it's not just because
she's head over heels in love, cither.
It's because she isn't a slave to lot
of stupid, impossible, ready-nade
necessities which she isn't equal to; be-
| cause she doesn't have to keep up ap-
| pearances on nothing. a year and, to
| use the old, old figure, trot a cham
payne gait on a soda water income /
envy that girl because, being poor, as
I'm poor she isn't obliged to live as
though she were rich. She doesn't have
to keep the pace set by an heiress. She's
just plain, simple, unpretentious.
Wears a ready made suit that cost
twenty-five dollars everywhere from
one seasons end to another. and con-
siders herself we'll enough dressed
| When she gives a party II 3 bWStitS
girls in the afternoon for 'thimbles,
as they call it, or three tables for high
five in the evening, with ice cream ana
angel food for refreshments and a
bunch of carnations on the mantel for
decorations. There's a Brussels carpet
and stuffed plush furniture in their
parlors She doesn't even want Turk
ish rugs and Chippendale. She's just
finding out about Mission and told me
with great pride that the dining room
in her home was to be furnished in
that style. I suppose she'll have a
plate rail- too, and quite stun the other
girls of her set by the boldness of her
advance in domestic aesthetics. She
doesn't want to marry millionaire.
She's perfectly satisfied with her f1ance-
| What prospective bride can you say as
much for in our set? OF course they're
engaged and they want to be married
land most of them are in love with their
lovers but how many of them, do you
| think are absolutely satisfied. with
Or if they are pleased, their mothers
and fathers aren't. But the satisfaction
of this girl and her family with her
prospective husband is beautiful. Her
mother told me, in a great burst OF
pride and confidence, that he earns SlOU
a month.
You know what a furry and hurry
| the Porters are all in because Rachel is
going to be married in April! wen
this girl is to be married in two weeks
and they're all ready and have been
ready for a month. All her underwear
is made and laid away in violet sachet
and pink tissue paper. It's simply de-
licious to see how happy she is with her
pathetic little rousseau; the wedding
gown of white Paris muslin with
mechlin lace. her blue and white polka
dotted foulard shirtYaist suit; her one
silk petticoat; her white henrietta suit
, with two extra blouses; her dark blue
| street suit; a Powered chalIS mouse
gown trimmed with cream colored lace
|
morning frocks and aprons.
asRacfeI and VIII are going to board
, because they haven't money enough 70
keen house but this girl would never
think of doing anything so extravaganza
as boarding Funny, isn't it? They're
| going to live way Outtand the street II
. front of their house isn't paved but the
| house itself is paid for. There are uVe
; | rooms and a bath, new paper and paint
| everywhere, a porch where she expects
to have porch boxes and hanging pask-
cts and things next summer She WI
do all her own work, even her IRONING
and have a woman come Mondays 70
: wash. OF course she makes all her owl
clothes, knows how to make bread ano
| can fruit and do everything. Don't I'M
agine though, that she has only the
honeIy accomplishments. She plays the
niano and her father will give her q
new one for wedding present. Iney
thinlx-her people-that she is wonder
because she plays the sort of pieces
! they like I wish my father were as
we'll satisfied with the money he's spen'
on NV music She does burnt wood
: too-her new house will be full Of It
suppose and Battenburg and all tna'
sort of thing.
saThen look at the differences in the
wedding a girl of that class is content
. ed with and what one of US expect
rThev'H have a few friends and kin, mol
! T,1ore than 30 altogether asked verbally
and probably send out announcement
/ | cards afterwards. One of her FRIENDS
will play the Mendelssohn weddlne
] march when they come down stairs an