The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-19
OF Interest
to Women.

You know among other foolish notions
entertained by the average young girl
is that no ordinary man is good enough
for her and when she does marry it will
be because some prince has chosen her.
Meanwhile she accepts whatever atten-
tions offer but that, she wants it under
stood, is merely to pass the time away
until her tin-god-hero arrives. She
turns up her nose at the idea of mar
rying any of the men she knows-a1-
though probably none of them have
asked her-and when one of the other
girls marries one of the town boys she
screams with horror at the thought
that she could ever descend so low. Like
ly enough she has not been urged to
marry any one but she swells with the
consciousness of superiority whenever
she compares the ordinary husband to
her ideal. Eventually, of course, after
she has hung unto the parent stem I'M
til it begins to be town talk, she marries
some plain plug with no especial advan-
tage, except Willingness, over the 9TH
ers she has said she would not have
had, and pretends that he is her ideal.
The trouble is that with her foolishness
she commonly loses her complexion also.
A young girl is delicious to look at but
she rarely has any sense. woman
of thirty has had enough experience of
mistakes and disappointments and re-
grets to be reasonable and companion
able but she has usually lost her bloom.
AS rule one must take ones choice
between beauty and brains, anyway.
But there is a young girl in Topeka
who is different. And when 1 say she
is sensible, don't go jumping at concluS-
ions. She is also pretty, as it happens,
and attractive enough to excuse almost
any degree of frivolity. She is neither
serious nor intellectual nor formidable
in any other way and yet she has more
sense for her age, on one proposition,
than any girl in town. For this girl,
although possessed of more than the
usual attractions of family princesses,
doesn't expect to marry either mem
Der of the mobility or a millionaire. I
don't want nor expect to marry a rich
man." she says. .I don't know any,
and if did what would they want of
me? None of the girls I know have
expect to? l suppose I shall marry
some time, probably a young fellow
earning hundred dollars a month. It's
quite enough. I don't see why one
couldn't be perfectly happy, support
family of six or seven and save money
on that salary
Now isn't that remarkable case?
When you consider that the average
girl, even if her father is poor as power
ty and she has never had twenty dollars
month to spend in her life SCOTS at
the average poor mans salary and de-
clares that nobody could live on it?''
Then, too, family of six or seven
did you catch that? And this girl is only
twenty years old Didn't say she was
different?
He who loves and runs away may
live to love another day.
YES he said with his most super
ior air of blase Indifference. 81 may
marry if I can find a girl with, say
fifty thousand. That isn't much. I
should think it would be worth all of
that"
"Bobby." spoke up a girl who hasn't
fifty cents, you remind me of that old
story of the Arkansas man who wrote
to a firm of manufacturers to find out
what a good saw mill would cost. They
answered fifteen hundred dollars.
can't quote his reply literally, because
/ am always a lady, be it ever so pain
full. but the gist of it was If had fif-
teen hundred dollars what would I
want of q saw mill ?
Swinburne says no woman knows
enough to forgive and understand and
be angry at the right time.
The revolt against the bizarre little
hat. so unbecoming to the woman not
constructed upon the Vatican plan
and so irreconcilable with any simple
style of hairdressing, was bound to
come, and the height of the Paris sea-
son found more big hats than small
accompanying the elaborate toilets,
though the little tiptilted hats still
crowned some pretty heads belonging
to fashion leaders, and the great crowd
still chung to the extreme type OF small
hat which came in with the spring
modes.