The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
THE EVENING STOR
Tha Giri PHILOSOPHER.

LII tel yous says your al rs
friend"-it was the girl philosopher
talking again. I'll tell you. how you
would look like a poem. You want
stacks of that yellow hair of yours huft-
Then a Dutch neck. about this low.
with valenciennes edging, about TINS
wide; over that a bright red sweater
and big-simply huge-golf sticks ana
no hat. There, you're a picture. Inat
blue is subdued enough, I think-yes,
quite
your artist friend squints at you as |
you proceed to combine the outrages 10 |
conventional tastes which she suggests
But you see the artistic value of the |
picture which you are making or your
self at her command. For cadenoar
your would be immense; but the trou-
BILE is that she is sending you out 20
play golf with Bennie Goodyear, VINO Is
! just about the most inconspicuous per
son as to dress and department. mat
ever lived.
.sStill. that is what your artist friend
does for you. She starts you out tnat
way and you are full to the brim OF
| her pumped-up enthusiasm"
! YES said Dutiful Jane, she uio
| that very thing for me. She got me 10
go to the theater wearing that ancient
Rembrandt hat as large as an auIo- a,,
mobile and with green plume. Ine
worst of it was / wore it wltn-on,
don't look at me while tell you!-l
wore it with that old lace dress OF
grandmother's that we dug out or tne
attic chest. The dress mas hoWere9
paniers and slight Grecian bend.
wore it!'
..She insists on my carmine sweater
| whenever I'm out of doors because
the red goes SO nicely with the green
golf Inks said the philosopher.
l"And she says the curves in the back
of my neck never should be covered
with collar. SO that is why Bennle
Goodyear has broken our engagement
/ for luncheon at the club house and
why he looks scared wherever he sees
me nowadays. But I haven't con-
fessed the worst.
.sNor IT, said Dutiful Jane.
81 haven't told half sighed The
resa.
'sIt's about bathing suits confessed
the philosopher.
The others looked apprehensive.
"Yes, it is, actually. She told me IN
that dreamy way of hers that she nao
a picture in her mind that she mad
: always wanted to realize. You Know
we had been to the beach ana sne
had a chill while watching the girls
fuzzy f1annels and bloomers and thick
gathers and things. She said she
Simply couldn't stand it. Then when
came out she had had that inspira,
ton You're just the one, she tolo
me. I'm always the one"
mot aIwaysg'' said Dutiful Jane.
: sI'm in on the things that become my
= type" ,r,,..a ors,
l of ALL said Theresa. Classical pho
tographs of me for future studies by
her distinctly do not make hit WITH
my family They do not like me al
: They're addicted to clothes-th'
s "But not our artist friend grievec
y the philosopher. "Yet when an arts
shows you just how beautiful yol
T may become what girl can help lend
S,,c
e 7.If it were only an earl" moaned
s Theresa.
n ssI must say I have something to b.
7 thankful for" said Dutiful Jane. m.
Q tvpe is the completely clothed va
Z riety I'm my grandmothers and al
y the Priscillas, you know. But go OF
! i with the bathing suit episode. 1 hat,
= to hear it, dear, but we might as wei
l. face Just what we're coming to-.
= The philosopher gulped and tried t.
= Hook brave ssOf course you know
, lwhat we have all had to do in the in
n terest of atmosphere since the adven
a of our artist friend, she began.
= IN the first place, she said, 'yol
!, !, Itnust have the bathing suit very short
! oh, much shorter than that-as triet
d to strike a medium by the manipuiatio,
! of my walking skirt. Because. DON
n Won see that is just the bad lne-t
y have it cut off there. And this horrl'
re neck that people wear in bathing SUIT
Ie neither low nor high would hav'
l. evening dress. only of course finfshet
is in that careless fashion with braid
Z Then the girdle and all. but no bloom
It ers No, they are hideoasi Protec
y from view the knee line? Well that i
lust what we cannot have. In pal
gray, then, for color with braid of whit
and blue knots in the niece across III
chest. With that would have brillian
e red tights for touch of colo in tn
p scheme-and--
n "O-oh." shrieked the listeners.
ID The philosopher went to the ceda
: chest and dragged from it. piece b.
) piece, the gray bathing suit, red -al
l. and-well, the touch Of color in tn
d scheme.
d 1T has never been wet. 1 am relieve'
to see." said Theresa.
sr 81 was saved lust in time said tn
1t philosopher ''by putting on the sui
l. at home. Our artist ssiend was Wit
me- OF course, she is offended becaus
g spoiled the picture this suit woul
% make in the frothy green water if
le would only wear it.'-Chicago News
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