The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
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glass vase for centerpiece and pink
candles. She'll get china and cut glass
and some Inexpensive pictures and
stuff for her house for wedding pres
ents. People of that sort would think a
personal wedding present awfully map
propriate. When they're married they'll II
take a wedding trip out to their new
cottage and live happily ever after
wards"
And you mean to say you envy
girl an existence OF that kind?'' de-
manded the girl in the rose colored
why not?'' returned the philosopher
at the candy booth reso1utely. Il can't
live like that, but it isn't my fault. It's |
all can afford and wish could. |
get sick of these pretenstons and sub
terfuges and shams that become neces-
Sary when one tries to do the elegant |
on an inadequate income. That girls |
people have almost as much as we. |
suppose they really have more OF eV- /
erything except debts and worry. I'm |
| tired of these regular monthly financial |
panicS when the bills come IN. Not that /
we have much, but we have more than /
we can afford. Half the people In our /
set do, and you know it. We make lots |
| of our own clothes and try to think we
are econOmiZing but IL one goes all the /
time one has to have so much. We're |
always driven to distraction trying to |
get something done in time for the next |
party. And then in the midst of every
thing the maid leaves. I told mother |
/ the other day I'd give everything to |
chuck the whole business, stop trying |
/ to keep up appearances, and resign |
myself to that station in life to which |
Providence has seen fit to call me- 1t
would be something about like that
girls in the brown suit if had any
decent consideration for my poor over
worked and over-worried father. I'd
| like to let that Terrible Swede we have
had in our kitchen since four-thirty
! yesterday afternoon, go. She'll go, any
! way tomorrow morning if she hasn't
oil, IL A Of THAT'S a & long &
any of her predecessors for the past
| five weeks have staid. I'd like to get
some fresh, clean bingham house gowns
| like my friends across the street and
some big capaciOus aprons and go out
in the kitchen and do the cooking my
self. Mother and could do everything
easily if we didn't have to spend every
spare minute between parties and card
clubs and helping down here and sew
ing for the next thing. The house would
be a. whole lot heater and more COM
Portable; we'd have something decent
to eat even when we didn't have COM
pany, which is the only time, with these
intermittent housemaids. when we
aren't starving. And perhaps father
and Jim would stop growing"
mo, they wouldn't laughed the girl
in the rose colored toque. They'd be
all cut up if you should give up CAD
ding around and stop quietly at home
all the time doing the demure and do
nestle. You know they perfectly love
| to think of you as the prettiest and the
most popular girl wherever you go.
They love your frills and frivolity and
they'd rather starve than have you
! drop out. But I know what you mean
/ and I've felt that temptation myself
i not so much on account of the expense
T but because 1t seems such a waste of
time I don't want to cook and keep
: house but I'd like to have time for my
music and to read and study some of
the things I've been intending to take
3 up ever since I left school. Really
, haven't had new idea in years. Peo-
l pie say join a club. but that would only
| mean a harder rush to get something to
{ wear to get ready and to go. Besides
: [ haven't time for the things I'm into
now.
The vaudeville had ended and the
crowd in the balcony and pit broke up.
) The Girl with the Mary Mannering eyes
: turned to smile at a bunch OF high
school boys who were passing the
: booth. It is her function to draw the
l custom which some of the less orna-
: mental assistants take care Of
? YOU'D better start Simple Life
J movement said the girl in the rose
colored velvet toque as she moved
r away with her party.
r The girl with the Mary Mannerlng
{ eyes sighed with plaintive pathos.
} 81 just wish had time, and would,
she said.
At a small cotillon given in Chicago
last week the hall was decorated WITH
+, snlilax and southern pines ana the GERMS
was covered by a bower OF fonage inter-
I woven with 900 small electric lights Inc
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