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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
A Woman Fun BUYER.

f'How is it you can think of 50 many
funny stories?' asked a friend who is
very popular at dinners and receptions
and all such places where people are
supposed to talk and have a good time,
but in reality where they are wonder
ing how long it is going to last.
Well, you can imagine whether this
woman I speak of is popular with hos
tesses when tell you that giggles Of
delight are always issuing from her
corner and that men and women form a
little group around her to hear what she
has to say.
MY dear, I spend small fortune in
comic papers," she replied. 81 try to
get back numbers or old books If pos
sible with jokes we haven't heard for
such long time that Iibrettists are
actually putting them in the books OF
the comic operas and passing them of
as their own original efforts. What
you spend on gloves and hair orna-
ments I spend on brain food, and, my
dear, it pays. Every morning I read
two or three pages and copy the neat
est jokes for the day. It is always easy
enough to bring the conversation
around so as to introduce them. If you
don't know how just step around to
one of the musical comedies and that
win give you an idea:
eyes, princess, the king has turned
me down, and 1 am a fugitive, but
royal favor was ever tickle, like sailors
love and like that of Ben Jones, who
had a girl in every port. Never heard
of Ben Jones? Well Well! III have
to tell you about hinl'' and before the
audience can interfere and shout that
it's quite unnecessary he breaks out as
follows:
Ben Jones he had girl in every
po-oort!
fiddle UNI tum tum fiddle ee tee teee
: and so forth and so on thirteer
stanzas, not counting encores.
well there's your idea, and If yol
can't haul in your little jokelet any
smoother than that. why, you're NJ
good, that's ALL"
am getting a little tired of thos'
notices and sayings framed on th'
walls, are you not?
In the beginning, it was only origina
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the way, is simply to tell her customers
the truth about themselves.
If a woman finds she is not getting
along socially as well as she thinks she
should she consults the madam. The
latter studies her carefully and then
tells her frankly and without the slight
est compunction just what is the mat
ter. The interviews might be humorous
if they were not pathetic. She criticises
the carriage, expression, way of walk
ing, of carrying the head, etc, Of her
customer. She recommends a remedy
for the round shouldered. She advises
this faced looking woman to go to
emotional plays and study the express
sions of actresses in order to get a lit
tie more life into ner own dull, hshy
eyed face. She prescribes courses of
reading. colors to be worn, shapes of
hats; in a word. she makes over wo-
men sartorially, physically and men
tally.
Every week she gives a ''talk'' in her
artistically furnished little drawing
room, and when last heard from she
was keeping very quiet. doing no adver-
Using whatever and yet putting money
in the bank at a famous rate.
So much for audacity and enterprise
joined to the faculty for getting into
the best set and being a model of dis
erection and good judgment.
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lions, which they pursue all the more
successfully because they are refined
women. Two near Boston are conduct
ing a scientific cookery restaurant and
prospecting uncommOnly Two others
operate a laundry, no doubt scientifical-
ly also, for it is succeeding according to
its owners desires. Other brave girls
have left college halls and taken up
homesteads and even operate mines on
their own account. One young lady,
finding all doors closed through which
girl graduates usually enter on a ca
reer, and having a real genius for de-
signing and fitting women's garments,
boldly started a dressmaking establish
ment and within a few years was rich.
A veritable botanical expert is Miss
Carrie Harrison of the agricultural de-
partment. She was the one who or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02

she is to wear when she is invited to
dinner If it is to be a restaurant af-
fair. of course it is easy enough for her
to decide. She puts on some stunning
high neclSed gown she could wear
equally well to a reception or a theater,
but it is when the invitation comes
from a private house that her troubles
begin. She does not know whether to
wear a low neck gown or a high necked
one or merely a coIlarless affair." If
she wears a high necked dress and all
the other women are decollete she feels
"ehOky." If she wears a low necked
gown, when everybody else is decently
covered up, she feels indecent, while
man, happy man, only has to pop into
his evening suit and, presto, he is all
ready and wonders why women take
such a long time to dress.
And a mans clothes stay in style for
ever. What luckl
You have known the sorrow of taking
a gown out of the closet, a gown you
had counted on, and of finding that in
some mysterious manner it had changed
completely and that from being a
miracle of sweetness, fit only for best
occasions, it was now crumpled and
shrunl1en as to sleeve, narrow through
the shoulders and without enough full
ness in the skirt.
It was not the dress that had changed.
only your view of it had undergone al
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er than ever. There is one thing about
the sleeves that you should remember,
however, and that is that on no really
up to date coat do they reach to the
wrist; they all terminate somewhere
between the hand and the elbow. This
allows the graceful Wrinkly glove to be
seen and incidentally accounts for the
large sized muffs which are now worn.
The larger these are the better, be-
cause they must cover the part Of the
arm laid bare by the up to date coat
sleeve.
1t Is only too true that comfort is be-
ing supplanted by style and that we
are going to freeze this winter Chose of
US who aim at extreme smartness!) in
the short coat sleeve, skin tight bolero,
tiny neck tippet and tight girdle.
Yes, my friends, even the comfortable
fur neckpiece is shrinking into modish
proportions. Put your money into
quality" says Dame Fashion, "and not
into quantity Have your stole made
fiat and with the ends so narrow that
they may be thrown over the shoulder
with a swagger air"
If the narrow fiat little fur arrange
ment does not keep you warm Why
that is another matter. You look we'll
and that's the main thing.
What woman of moderate means has
not wished she were man that she
might have her attire regulated by law
as it were.
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happened. Brothers and sisters have
drifted apart.
This is worse even than companion
ship with occasional squabbles though
it must be owned that the state OF rela-
tons usually rests with the girls. Are
they sympathetic without being inter
fering, the confidence Of the brothers
viii almost certainly be gained.
If girls are companionable, while still
having their own interests, the brothers
will join them in work or play.
If sisters are broad minded enough to
allow for harmless lapses from the path
Of duty those wicked boys" viii GER
tainly have less to conceal.
Undoubtedly it is the women who
make the home life. and since home life
is so much more complicated nowadays
sisters must see to it that they carry
out the work.
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OWNED BY
THEIR FURNITURE.

IT is exceedingly rare now for an
American family to remain in the
same house for even one generation.
They who would keep in the current
must often be ready to move from one
place to another at a weeks notice.
Business exigencies frequently make
this necessary.
The wise woman will, therefore, not
load herself up with a vast quantity of
heavy furniture. The clumsy old
chairs, tables and couches that seem to
weigh ton when you lift them are not
only exceedingly ugly and so heavy
they make you weary to look at them,
but they are a. distinct retrogression of
civilization back to the days when there
were no railroads. They are monstrosi-
ties and an anomaly in this hustling
age of electricity. She who has made
the mistake of buying these heavy ar
ticles does not own her furniture. She
is owned by it, and a grievOus burden
it lays on her. When the fad for the
things is over it will be impossible to
give them away.
There is that other woman whose
fancy is for furniture both heavy and
costly Huge mahogany bedsteads with
silken canopies, chairs upholstered in
delicate pale satin, difficult to lift and
uncomfortable to rest on-these fill
her ideal of elegance, though she her
self never sits on them, because their
slippery covering inclines her to slide
to the floor. Besides that they are so
delicate in color that it really seems
wicked to touch them with the clothes
of this working world.
Probably the woman with the Ium-
/
dressing cases has a great quantity Of
solid silver and expensive china. She is
in dread lest the maid break the china
or thieves steal the silver. Such hap
penings are of daily occurrence. Does
| that woman own her mahogany and
silver and china? By no means. They
own her, and they are merciless masters,
giving her no rest.
Far happier, far less burdened, is the
housekeeper who has light bamboo or
willow chairs, brass or pretty enameled
iron bedsteads and as little drapery as
possible costly or cheap. Drapery
gathers dust and disease, shuts out
heavens pure air and sunlight and re-
quires much time to keep clean. Wood
en- furniture gathers both dust and YER
min and much of the cheaper kinds is
now so wretchedly made that it is an
offense against sincerity either in art
or morality.
A true artistic perception seems to
dictate that the place for costly tapes
tries. ivory carvings, precious en-
broidery and metal work is not IN a
private house at ALL but in a public art
museum, where the children of the peo-
pie may see them and learn from them.
The most artistic people Iiving-the
French-have many such museums.
70 411
japanese in the way of refined sim
plieity of living, as well as In some
other ways. Some mats, a few cur
tains and kitchen utensils, a handsome
cabinet or two and perhaps a screen
constitute most of a japanese fanily's
domestic belongings. A Japanese house
with its bamboo frame can often be
built in a few hours
Halt the worry Of American life ean
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
MAINTAIN FAMILY AFFECTIONS

In these days, when young men ap-
pear less inclined than heretofore to
marry and when young women lack the
opportunity or DO not care to enter the
welded state, the household composed
of a grown up family is common, men
and women of twenty thirty and even
forty often still remaining under the
parental roof
It is an arrangement very soeiable
and pleasant. of course. so long as in
terests and opinions are not allowed to
clash. With some families, however.
one fears t-nf good aaaI Of friction is
present unless something WoEse has
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LEY.
gained the herbarium branch Of that
department. After. graduating from
Wellesley and Cornell, like so many
other earnest students, she went to Eu
rope and pursued her botanical investt-
cations. She selected and purchased,
mostly in Europe, the foreign herbaria
which are now in the government col
lection
Miss Anna L. Kfmbal makes re
searches in plant cell life in the labora-
tory of the agricultural department In
the bureau of plant industry is Mrs.
Flora Wambaugh Patterson, nnycologist.
Miss Mary c. Gannett. government
forestry expert, of Radclin college and
Leland Stanford university, finished her
special studies in the Yale school of
forestry.
Miss Evelyn Mitchell Of Cornell
studied in the museum there year. aft
er her graduation, then was chosen to
go to Louisiana to assist in the scien-
rific investigation of mosquitoes. She
is now in the laboratory OF the Smith
sonian and is also instructor in zoology
at the George Washington university.
Miss Harriet Richardson of Vassar,
Phi. D., of George Washington unIver-
ity, is also employed in scientific fnves-
LEGATION in the Smithsonian institution.
Scores of others might be named in the
many departments of the national civil
service.
Wherever women are really qualified
to I'LL high places there appear high
places for them to fill. In proportion
to their number so per cent more col
lege women rise to eminence than do SO
among women who are not college
trained. MARILLA WEAVER.
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You can't beat what the department
stores are offering nowadays, and if you
make it at home you will soon find that
the cost of material viii be just about
the same. So you viii save nothing in
the end and have an awfully hard time
as well. for it is the present style of
coat which is hardest to make, although
it may look simple.
There is a friend of mine. for in
stance, who has attempted an evening
coat. Well, it has kept her in the house
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02

iteration. In a
few months the
world of fashion
had gone ahead,
and your poor
dress had slip
ped behind, that
was all.
I think it is
a great mistake
for women to
attempt to make
their own out
side wraps,
whether jackets,
evening coats or
even boleros.
The saying that
you can tell a
" m an m ad G
coat p nnila
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
An Original Scheme.

It is said there are more ways Of
making foolish women spend money
than there are ways of making it. Lis
ten to the latest.
It is done by a woman Of great social
tact and faultless taste in dress. By the
way, she calls herself Character and
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women who did that sort Of thing. In
some cases they wrote their own funny
little verses or witty thoughts. Now
cards are printed by the hundreds. in
some cases putting forth the --LATEST of
jokes, accompanied by hatter pictures,
and the whole thing is hopelessly run
into the ground
That is always the way when the
unclever try to copy the original peo-
pie.
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expression beau
tiher, and what
she does for
p e pie the y
might do for
tn en- selves if
they had any
sense, but if
any one else
told them the
things this wo-
man does (some
one who did not
charge a good
stiff price,, why.
there would be
murder, that's
all.
For what this
woman does and
charges a good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02

be escaped If we simply own our house
hold goods, not allowing ourselves to
be owned by them.
KATHERINE BLADES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02

away is painfully true because women
are not thorough in their work.
A tailor may give you a figure like a
wooden Indian, but at least every seam
in the garment he makes is properly
pressed and stitched fiat, and you can
lay the coat down anywhere without
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
A HANDSOME COSTUME
FOR STREET WEAR

The Illustration shows a graceful and
becoming promenade dress. The skirt
exhibits the redingote effect now SO
popular for morning wear in the street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02

AZ OST Of the new evening
ga A coats do make a body look
WN fat-there's no doubt OF
a v "A that Some of the models
are belted in under the arms, empire
fashion, and these are even more merci-
less by giving a waist line where none
exists and throwing out the fullness
around the hips. Sleeves, too, add to
the general ample effects by being full
All the other ssouen are decoIlefe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02

A Common Dilemma.
Nowadays it is no unusual thing for a
woman to be in a dilemma over what
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02

IIOW aIIU LUtU DV one VINO
sits upon the banks of the river of prog
ress and holds his eyes shut that he
may not see the current flow past him
Well, the plain truth is that in re-
spect to education, science. literature.
journalism and commercial and indus
trial business the United States would
be lamentable loser if suddenly it
We're deprived of its college bred wo-
men.
Let us see. There is Mary Carey
Thomas, Ii. D., president Of Bryn
Dlawr college, which is gradually evolv-
ing into real university for women.
Few men. college presidents or other
wise in America are SO highly educated
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being ashamed of it. I wish you could
do the same with a garment fashioned
by the hand of womani But, no! You
are likely to see stitches a mile long
holding together lining and outside or
else seams which shrek aloud and beg
you to rip them out and set them
straight.
Buy Ready Made Wraps.
Ny advice to any woman who wants
an outer wrap is to get it ready made.
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w tldt

HAT good does a college
education do a woman
anyhow? is still asked
now and fbay, rr- 49,, ---t,-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-09-14
Resolutions of Coincidence.

Whereas, it has pleased Almighty
God, in His infinite wisdom, to re-
move from his home here on earth,
L. c. jones, father of our sister,
Bell Jones; therefore, be it 4
Resolved. that the members of
this order extend their heartfelt
sympathy to our beloved sister,
family and friends in their great
bereavement; also that a copy of
these resolutions be placed on the
minutes of this lodge, and a copy
of the same be sent the family.
Lula Winters, Nelly L. Webb, An
ma Baker, Ora Hogan, Committee
of Rebekah Lodge, No. 2S3.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-09-14
RESOLUTIONS OF COINCIDENCE.

Whereas, it has pleased Almighty
God in His allwise providence to
call from our midst our worthy
neighbor, L. c. Jones, and
Whereas, in his departure from
this life, Camp No. 1927, NJ. W. of A.,
has lost a worthy and desirable
member and his family a generous
father and noble husband, there
fore, be it
Resolved, that Baxter Springs
Camp No. 1927. N. W. of A, extend to
the family and friends of our de-
ceased neighbor their sincere sym
pathy, and be it further
Resolved, that a copy of these
resolutions be spread upon the
records of this camp and copy
given to the family of our neighbor
and one to the weekly press of this
city for publication, and that our
charter be draped in mourning for
q period of thirty days.
J.W. Cook,
W. DILL,
B. w. PATTON, Committee.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-09-14
L. c. JONES DEAD.

L. C. Jones, born December 8, 1860,
died at his home in this city on
September 8, 1905.
Deceased had been i'll for about
three weeks, and although the best
of medical talent wac employed it
was in vain. Mr.. Jones was stricken
with typho.malarial fever, and be-
ing overworked at the time he took
to his bed, his constitution could
not stand the strain of the disease.
Mr.. Jones was good citizen. He
had lived in this city and vicinity
for the past thirty years, and dur
ing that time has held several posi-
tions of trust, being at the time of
his death a justice of the peace,
which office he had held for several
years. He was candidate for the
Republican nomination for probate
Judge, and there is no doubt but
that he would have received the
nomination.
Mr.. Jones was>a kind husband
and an indulgent father. Besides
his wife he left seven children to
mourn his death.
Funeral services were held Sum
day at the Methodist church, after
which the remaine were inferred in
the Baxter cemetery. The church
was crowded to it's capacity, and
the procession to the cemetery was
one of the longest ever seen in this
city.
The district court adjourned
from Saturday noon to Monday
noon out of respect TO the memory
of the deceased. Mr.. Jones was a
member. of the Cherokee county
bar.
Mr.. Jones carried 5000 lite insur-
ance In the Modern Woomen of
America, and left his family a
home and q small amount of per-
sonal property.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-09-14
BIO REAL ESTATE DEALS.

Daniels & Plumb are doing the
real estate business of the city
They have recently cold quite a
number of nice residences, city
lots and farms. Among the late
sales are the following:
The large two-story brick Miller
residence on River street to J. d
Long of Kansas City.
The Sadie Talbot residence on the
north side to W. W. Scott.
The Koonz residence on Cedar
street to I. p. Danils.
The Bennett residence in Girls
void & Hawks addition TO I. p
Daniels.
Seven beautiful lots on East Neo'
sho street to Chas. r. Polster.
Eighty acres of rich mineral land
in the Quapaw reservation to Mar
low & Co.
Ninety acres of the Cooper land
near town to John N. Daugherty OF
Omaha.
The John Stone farm to Alfred
Thomas of Omaha.
And city lots too numerous toe
mention.
This is a good showing for Bax'
ter Springs, and also demonstrates
the fact that we have a wide-awake
energetic firm of real estate men
who make sales. If you have prop
erty for sale you should put in the
hands of men who do business, and
will give you fair treatment They
charge no commission unless they
make a sale.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-09-14
GOOD ROADS AGITATION.

GOOD ROADS AGITATION.
EDITOR NEws;-In your Issue of
the 9TH inst. I see one of your cor
respondents, signing himself GOOD
Roads," urges the agitation of the
good roads question; also advises
little work put with the agitation.
Now, Mr.. Editor, 1 am with "Good
Roads," I don't believe in shoot
mouth too much, either, but we do
know of some men in this county,
and In fact on Route No. 5, who own
from FIVE to six hundred acres of
land, and whose neighbors are very
scarce, owing to these large hold
ings, and who have from four to
five miles of road on their own
premises, and judging from the
roaes on the premises they are new
er worked, not even the road tax be.
ing put on them. One could almost
imagine he was in the jungles of
Africa, with hedge brush cut and
piled on either side of the road un.
til 1t jnst leaves room to pass, there
to remain until il rots down; in fact
we have travelled over those roads
considerably, and the bulk of the
work done on those roads is little
dam across the road, just enough
to throw one out of the buggy; or
perhaps load of rock scattered in
the road to compel the travelling
public to make a new track. Oh,
consistency, thou art a jewel. If
shoot mouth would shoot a little
less and do little more road work
himself on his own premises how
much better it would look for him
to agitate the good roads question.
It does seem az If he would like to
saddle the burden on some one else
to keep the roads on his premises
in good order.
Itell you, Mr.. Editor, if each man
owning property along the public
highway would cut his hedges and
burn the brush and not leave it in
the road till il rotted to obstruct
the flow of water and hinder the
road overseer and his men from
work whenever they do work it
takes half of their time to clean out
the hedge brush and NOW the
weeds; nearly every farmer has a
moving mashine and could we'll af.
ford to NOW the weeds in his lanel,
how much it would improve the
looks of his farm; and not only that,
but it would take great deal less
work, for then the water would stay
in the bitches and not run out in
the road and wash out big gullies.
I verify believe il would lessen the
road work one-half, and that is not
all-it would improve the country
100 per cent.
Now, in conclusion, we would ad-
wise the shoot mouths to clean up
the hedge brush and NOW the
weeds, and remove the dams they
have built in the roads, and open
the bitches 80 the water will run in
them; alec to remove the rock they
have thrown in the roads, and then
see if the roads do not look better,
and require less work to keep them
in good order. If this is done /
don't think he will be compelled to
call on the r. F. d. carriers to turn
out and work the roads at their own
expense. Yours truly,
CLOSE OBSERVER.