The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

red and purple hats are thought just
as smart as ever. They are made. of
all sorts of material In fact IN mil
inery at the present moment there is
no limit as to the possibilities in ma
teria1 and color.
Why doesn't some woman Carnegie
come along and endow a club for bus1-
ness women? Not a charitable sort OF
affair (although it would really be
charity of a higher sorD, but the sort
of club men have. where every one pays
his yearly dues and is free to come and
go as he pleases; where all the news
papers and magazines ana DOCKS are 10
be seen, and a lot of other luxurles are
to be enjoyed, which would be only
possible upon some such co-opefatlNS
sort of plan.
There have been endless TRADES writ
ten upon the subject of womeIHss CLUBS
onincus shakings of the head over its
probable encrOachment upon the home
life, which are we'll founded IN the
main. But these rules cannot possibly
apply to bachelor women, -. wLGse 1,-s5e
homes are perhaps broken up, or VINO
live in other than their home cltles-
live in a continued round OF once anu
boarding house.
Every now and then plan for such
a club is proposed, but it usually falls
through from lack of support, or from
this support taking the form or cnarlty-
Your business woman has learneo III
dependence from her struggle TO sup
mort herself: and this hard-won 1nde-
pendence her is very dear to her. She Won t
join the kind of a club which Woulu
in any way affect 1t.
There's a crying need for woman ;
club. with a good cafe, where members
can lunch and dine and do their enter
tanning For your lonely business We
man has no place to properly enter tam,
especially when her gqest y Is aIU,l1Tt re
TO comforts al tlv talk over difhcult
point or discuss a dish of delicious gos-
sip. and yet, who is only business a.
ouaintance-not a friend.
co r1anv of the clubs proposed have
had for their object so Cosmopolitan
plan that a woman would natufaily -
fuse to consider joining them. "A ciuD
S+arfad IN the principal that all OF IT'S
members are friends simply because
they are members may be altrulstlc, pur
If certainlv isn't practical; and it Ger
tainly isn't true in the men s cups siA-
fer which it ought to be modeled.
! The costs of a club, with building ana
cafe. are large; yet, if the idea were
once advanced and ably demonstrated
that it could be done, the IneHiDeisiiip
would be filed up with rush
AZ IL the erect upon home life, there
| should be none. Married women ana
Young girls find, as rule, that nome
keeping. hearts are happlesl
should have no part IN It.
.sbe is charming observed the man,
mentally. as he closed the door OF ner
nome D6nluQ HILL
ives she's an unusually interesting
woman he repeated, as he turned the
corner. -
And why? Simply because she nao
so+ foy- +1zc eoIid hours and listeneK Be
cause, by tactful question or two, she
had drawn him on to talk Of what J,i1t he
liked, while she listened 1nteresteolyS-
Gus achievements, she had seemed awed |;
when he smoke of a. sorrow, her eyes had
been all sympathy; when he related al an
amusing incident, she had Iaugheo ne .l1ei-
riIv. Always. she had listened, intel
iigentIy. UNDERSTANDINGS. And In his ms,
ewes she charming, an unusually
/ interesting woman z,..,,v,
has been laughed at and -jolxed with Pc
cause Of her talking propensltles. s oLls
has been likened unto a magple, ana
she has been called a talking machlne-
So I.e,s been accused of never letting q
man get a word in, in the provern1ai
manner. edgewise. Now, the clever wo-