The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-21

1t might be, manIike, that they wouldn't
SO much mind losing their wives at the
end of ten years as they would having
their wives be willing to lose them. 1
know they accuse US of having all the
weaknesses but one a Wound a man
more deeply and surely through his
vanity than through his heart. And
while many tO a limited
marriage contract base their objec-
lions to it on the grounds that man is
a natural polygamist and that many
women would be the victims of cruel
assertions by tickle and heartleSS men
under uch a law I believe that even
If a husband didn't want to keep his
wife for herself after the term OF the
original contract had expired he
would be unwilling to have all the
world know that after a fair trial, h
did not consider him a prize and was
glad to give him UP and would be
good to her in order to avoid this
blow to his pride"
"I am in favor of a ten year marriage
contract law" says a man who likes
to pose as a ~hen-pecked Benedict, "ha-
cause / believe it would have the re-
suit of making the women do the work,
| do the work. Surely any woman who
knew enough to appreciate a good hus-
band would never run the risk of losing
him at the end of ten q b. leaving
the care of the furnace to him. As II
is, although I hope my wife loves ne,
and she says she does. she knows h
has me for life, and I don't
get in the house these cold
days before she orders me to the
cellar to look after the nj I real
ly think that's the most disagreeabIe
habit my wife has, but I may be able
to think of something worse next sum-
mer. But Just imagine coming holne
one of these crisp winter evenings,
chilled clear through, your north ear
half frozen, tired. hungry and worn by
a thousand -annoyances and being
greeted before o were fairly inside
the door by Now hurry right down
and look after the furnace. This house
is as cold as a barn!' There she's been
all day, snug and warm, nothing to do
but sit and watch poor wretches K
myself who have to work for a living,
going by, but h minute I reach the
front porch, before I've had time 10 get
over the first sharp sting that follows
when you come in out of the cold she's
believing to me about that blasted fur
mace. The bloomin' thing my
whole existence anyway. It's the hrst
thing I have to think of in the morning
and the last thing before I go to bed
It's a s-ub-conscious horror every iii
ute Of the day and a haunting night
mare at night. 1 think Of 1t al the
way home, cursing it and its demands
every step and to have it thrown at
me, hguratively, before I get inside n
house is positively the limit. You
know how mad 1T makes you 60 pc re
minded of something you haven't for
gotten but wish you could? Wei you
Understand my reasons for favoring
the Dumont Smith proposition"
at was one day last summer said
the girl in the tan jacket, that I hap
pened across it."
+What?"
"A mans idea of a shirt-waist girl
Dear mel! Wa she like the pen
drawings of her?'
II did not meet the reality-onfy
the idea I remember it was a par
ff0111o rlxr hot d0U and I W9E failing
uncomfortably fashionable in an all
alike dress of pongee, fashion at that
moment declaring the shirt-waist
dress to be the uniform OF its victims,
and an odd waist under the ban of the
commonplace
"I was trying to feel becoming in
my tan with red pipings, and to forget
how hot it was, when somebody com
menced theorizing about shirt waists.
MY idea,' said he"
s'Er-fond of his ideas, eh?"
mo, good looking. clever, lots of
fun, and willing to jump into any sort
lido you know what my idea of a
shirt-waist girl its?' said he. OF
course, we ali were dying to know.
Ct like a white waist, with a linen
collar and black string tie, and black
skirt"
NWho was she?"
Each of US fumbled with our open
stocks and baby pins In the back, and
thought longingly of the convenience
of string ties; but fashion. you know
and after all there isn't anything
quite as fresh looking as a plain linen
shirt and black skirt, is there? Only
we may not all have figures to wear
them. A plain shirt is somewhat try
ing, after the full pleated one of the
day, with rufhes and things to wear
underneath that, of course, men don't
know about"
Eyes, there are a few things men
don't know about" reiterated the
III IA =
impressed by the tailor-made model
as set forth by him. Lets stop In
and get Madam Blanks ideas of new
sleeves"
good deal like Tennyson's book in the
matter of going on forever. 1t has
become as inevitable as the spring
poem. The only difference is that it
doesn't apparently lave to wait upon
kind critics or the inspiration of a
baby season. Like its progressive
wearer, the American girl, it inclines
to be ahead of time in coming out
appearances.
A change of sleeve is the most con-
spicuous one about HI new shirt waist.
Every girl with a long arm has es-
pecial reason to be glad when she
looks upon the seasons blouses that are
gathered full at the shoulder, ending in
lines that follow that curve of the fore
arm to the wrist. A leg of mutton
sleeve is the most graceful one put oIt
by fashion even if not the most poeti-
cally named. There is little change
aside from this in the general form of
shirt waists. Though the absolutely
plain waist is cOnSpicuously absent,
plaits, tucks, and gathered fulness lend
themselves more than ave to the dis
appearing lines of the original model
Observation-Disclosures blouses will be
more strongly featured thar ever this
summer. Fashion doesn't consider eli
mate or ~acrobatic i-nclinatiOns. The
modern girl would better begin breath
summer waist.
Daintiest of lii shirt waists are dis
played in the shops. made Of India lawn
and linen. full in the front, decorated
~ soearffonS and f7okG and huffO0od