The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-08

The IOEEkA STATE
that are made of white linen. hand
embroidered, through which wide red
satin ribbons are run. And there are
the white linens with patterns or red
upon them. The linen
belts and stocks are lovely and have
the great advantage of being such
that any woman can make them for
herself.
In spite of the runor that fans were
to be larger this summer they are stun
small. A new idea is to have them
ornamented with a favorite motto or
verse or the name or monogram OF the
owner embroidered or painted on the
surface.
Most girls change their manners along
with their clothes, and now that lingerie
gowns and baby hats have come INTO
vogue an righteousness of demeanor is
affected by many of the wearers tnere-
of. The tall, athletic maiden, VINO mas
taken to muslins this summer, no long
er defies conventions or glories In pc
ing called g a jolly good sort but Is
nesting closely under her chaperon
sheltering wing. Tan, too, which was
acquired by hours spent under broil-
ing sun, seems to have lost it's charm,
for only the most delicate of skins APP
pears to advantage against, light, nu1-
fly attire. Some girls, following the eA-
ample of a leader, wear their wells even
while playing tennis. There may be a
lack of genuineness in this departure,
but it has the charm of novelty and the
summer girl feels herself entitled to
different role from the one she has
played during the winter season
It Is so much the fashion these days
to have a kitchen as scientific as the
operating room of a hospital and for
woman to know something of every
thing including the high art of cooking,
that one does not often hear woman
disclaim this last accomplishment, says
Odette in the Chicago Record Herald.
But little person came here from the
south once and fed her friends on such
wonderful tidbits that it became mat
ter for converse, particularly as the
southerner herself held that she never
saw the inside of her kitchen nor knew
even what was coming on the table.
Cook after cook was lured from TINS
person by promise of higher wages and
cook after cook was proved to be
greenhorn at cooking. Finally the aw-
full secret came out that it was the
madam herself who tore below stairs
many times daily and prepared the
dainty morsels for her guests Being
celebrated, the joke went still farther,
to the sunny south, for this one accom-
plishment of which she was so piously
ashamed here. Quite different was 1t
with woman in Chicago of much
vogue and position who had opened her
house in town for a few days and was
without domestics. She was discovered
one morning in her kitchen getting up a
breakfast after having furiously SCRUB
bed everything in sight. A lovely, cell
cate little creature to begin with, she
was all in gauzy, French embroidered
white. a string of valuable pearls clasp
ed her slender throat, her tiny speckS OF
hands on which gorgeous rings spar kled,
struggled valiantly with heavy pots ana
pans, and there was a ire IN her eye
and an enthusiasm in her manner that
betokened pleasure in her Occupation
Here are the specifications of the ideal
girl of the future.
Languid, with long violet eyes:
Her cheeks will be round and there
will be a dimple in her chin. sd
Slightly above medium height she
will be plump, but not fat. sep
Her forehead will be high and she
will he inclined to be intellectual.
An italian artist. Hector De Jurio,
now in America, has discovered the
ideal girl Her features are found IN
real life She is q composite picture.
She is an ideal gathered from the pest
features of the best looking girls IN the
world. She is group as It We're OF tne
She combines the nose of one, with the
mouth of another, and the throat OF
third. the eyes of a fourth, the dtmples
of a fifth, the chin of sixth, ana the
forehead of a seventh. She is a com
posite ideal.
There are two very marked ten
denotes of the fashionable skirt-the
continued abbreviation OF the one
made for walking and the increasing
length of the dressy one as to It's tram.
The train is fast coming IN again
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only temporarily by the skirts OF lasl
wear. which were full at the top and
demanded round and round treae-
mentS. BY winter, at the furtnest' the
all types, will be here, bag and bag
gage And its re-entry will be greeted
enthusiastically by all but the girls
who were devoted to the convenient
short dance frock.
Ever since spring styles opened there
has been more than a perceptible dip
at the back of all elaborate skirts. and
the effect is in evidence now in every
thing but the short skirt.
The short skirt is shorter than ever
three inches from the floor when the
figure will stand it, and very often, by
the way, when it will not. Mother
Hubbards sample girth- big rect anu
short petticoat, of nursery rhyme mem
DRY, are memoriali7ed everv lay in the
week end hou- of the day Wherever
walking costumes are congregated.
'rhe full plated skirt, impossible of
raising from the soil OF tte pave ment,
is largely responsible for the cut-oti
look Of skirts at present prevalent. In
that plated skirt by the way, lies a
snare sils for the woman with extra size
hips. An artist in things sartorial
cannot make a very full plated skirt
two or three inches from the ground
becoming to a stout woman. The
skirt may be cut in the nine. eleven or
thirteen cores used for such models and
still where the end of the stitched
plaits come there will be necessarily
awkward jumping Off fare ana a
resuItine barrel or hogshead effect.
Like the saucy narrow brim, tip-tilted
hat of the hour. stout women are
wearing them regardless of personal
appearance, but one wonders IN TINS
day of lax fashion mandates why they
- not chonsir1e more suitable shapes.