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was telling the story. She knows two
perfectly nice Philadelphia girls who
absolutely refuse to meet because they
belong to two different sections of the
city. They have mutual friends how
ever, and know of each other by sight
and hearsay. Finally it came to pass
that they stopped at the same hotel.
Around dinner time Miss We're de We're
needed some one to hook her gown, her
repeated ringings for maid only hav-
ing brought Little Tommy, the bell
boy.
I'm afraid you won't do. Tommy"
she explained regretfully, for it was
growing late. Suddenly down at the
end of the hall the charming figure of
Miss Not-So- We're de-Vere emerged. IF
you will permit me, will fasten it for
you" she remarked quite politely.
But Miss We're de We're looked her
through and through in the most glacial
manner. Pardon me, but do not need
your assistance. The bellboy will do
quite as well,' she said haughtily.
And Tommy hooked the gown!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02
Qucens Mbo Hire Belpful
to Cbelr Subjects

band, King Victor Emanuel, was a deli
cate boy, and he has never been robust.
His queen evidently intends that her
children shall be unlike him in this
respect, if bodily culture can produce
the desired result. The two little Italian
princesses and their brother are being
reared as plainly and hardly as peas
ant children.
Queen Helena has not much time to
spare from her domestic pursuits, but
her mother-in-law. Margherita. the
dowager queen, endeared herself long
ago to Italian women by her energetic
effort to help them industrially. Her
first attempt was a revival of Italian
lacemaking and needlework. She felt
deeply the poverty of the thrifty and
hardwOrking Italian people, a poverty
that was much more marked a genera
ton ago than it is today. At the same
time she knew that in the Louvre and
other museums of Europe were speci-
mems of old Italian lace and needle
work worth fifty times their weight in
gold. because their like was no longer
produced. Could not these old time art
industries be revived?
On the east coast of Italy. in the re-
gion near Venice, Margherita found a
few aged women among the fisherfolk-
Observation-Disclosures they were-who
had known in their childhood the
stitches that had built the exquisite
webs of lace so famous in the museums.
Margherita, a young queen then, bent
on making her husbands reign popu-
lar and successful in the new kingdom
of Italy. set herself to the task of re-
v1ving the ancient lace industry. She
hired the aged fisherwomen to teach
younger ones what they knew of lace
making. In time the industry was re-
stored, in somewhat modified form, and
today Italian lace has taken it's old
place in the commercial world.
Even if she We're just a plain woman
citizen and no queen, her majesty of
Roumania, Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie
writer. would be noted as one of the
most industrious and public spirited of
her sex. She is member of the Acad-
envy of Sciences of Bucharest. Her
books, essays, poems and sketches are
known to all readers. She was a Ger
man princess. Queen Carmen sylvia
takes life very seriously and carries in
her heart the burden of improving the
industrial and financial condition of her
people Her helpfulness is naturally
| shown most among her own sex.
Queen Carmen sylvia rises at 4
| O'Clock, sometimes at 3. She is an
artist in colors as we'll as words and
| often paints a sunrise or landscape
while her ladies are snugly reposing in
bed Morning is the time for Carmen
Sylva's literary work. She writes sew
eral hours. then paints or practices on
the piano or organ till her husband,
King Charles. is ready for breakfast.
From 10 o'clock on the queen is busy
most of the day with her charitable and
industrial enterprises. Her life is a
very simple one, with small place in it
| for frivolous amusements.
! The accession of Little Wuhelmina, .
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assure you, it is perfectly natural.
Why, my dear, how can you for one
moment think of such a thing. See, L
can rub my handkerchief over my cheek
and not a tinge comes off" No more
it does, either, if the rouge was liquid.
However, admitting that a lot of peo-
pie use it, why not use it properly?
Personally. believe it is a crime to
look homely. but frescoing ones face
doesn't mean attaining beauty. There,
as in all things, moderation has a charm
of its own.
For instance, if a kind providence
made you either blond or brunette, why
try to change the type? That is not
makeup, it calls itself plain Grass stu
pidfty, and those who want to change
themselves vice versa may depart from
this lecture hall. My talk is not for
them.
II you want to improve your COM
plexion, do so according to your type.
If you are a brunette, for instance, you
never. never, never, on your life, should
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although she is not really a little wo-
man, to the throne of Holland made a
perceptible change for the better in the
general condition of the women of Hol-
land. Wilhelmina herself is thoroughly
up to date in her intelligence and mem
tai scope. Her mother, Queen Regent
Emma, said when Wilhelmina was yet
a child:
81 wish to make her not only strong
woman, but king So the little royal
maiden was held in with an even hand,
Queen Emma aiming first of all to
make the princess of the Netherlands
popular-"solid," we Americans would
call ft-with the liberty loving Dutch.
In this the wise woman succeeded SO
well that there grew up in Holland
chivalry and tenderness toward Will
helmfna that reacted favorably for all
her sex. The very fact that a beloved
and youthful woman was their ruler
made the Holland lawmakers liberal to
all women. Before she became queen
fathers had sole control of children I'M
der the law. Now mothers are equal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02

guardians with them. If a married
woman who earns money makes de-
posits in savings bank in her own
name her husband cannot touch them.
Queen Wilhelmina herself is proprietor
of a commercial butter dairy.
Middle class Dutchwomen are prob
ably the most generally intelligent OF
any in Europe. Holland is such a lit
tie land and at the same time so re-
nowned that it is erisscrossed by the
tourists of all nations, and its men and
women are required to know four Ian
uages-Dutch, French. German and
English. There are in Holland no such
obstacles to women entering the pro-
LESSONS as exist in other lands. to
some extent even in the United States.
And the women of Holland maintain
what our country never has had, a
national bureau of women's profess
sions. BY applying to this organization
any woman in Holland may find out
anything concerning the prospects for
money earning in any occupation.
MARILLA- WEAVER.
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whole unspeakably vulgar. You could
close your eyes and imagine the place
in its prime, everything expensive
and uncomfortable. and inartistic, filed
with a rabble that wanted to amuse
itself and didn't know how to do it ar
tistically, a crowd that literally stared
Mary Anderson out of the place when
she ventured there, crowd whose one
idea of bliss was to lord it in one of
the atrociously painted hotels, to spend
money and change toilets five and six
times day.
And what a difference now. The
great buildings are in part or in whole
deserted, while the country on either
side is poisoning with the new life,
and the descendants of this same crowd
are taking pleasure in beautifully kept
estates and out of door sports.
There is even a change in the archi-
lecture of the houses. The old style
cottage was a much tortured affair,
with plenty of scroll work and variety
in shades of paint, but with the new
era we have the fiat rooted gently STOP
ing mansion of brick, stone or unob-
trusive gray shingles. The roofs are
moss green or dull red, the gardens laid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02

T HERE are queens who con-
slider they have more serious
work to do than just to sit still
and look pretty. For many
years Alexandra of England has been
warmly interested in charity hospitals
She has established at least one of
these and has endowed others. Occa-
sionally the queen herself visits a be-
nevolent institution. Whenever she does
so the noble lady leaves on the minds of
the inmates of these places the i'm
preston of a gracious woman peren-
nially young and beautiful.
When one comes to think of it there
is really no greater service even a
queen can render to her own sex than
to show them a woman need not grow
old, even though she is a grandmother
This service Queen Alexandra certainly
has rendered. and her example is having
a marked influence for good on women
in America no less than in England
.Uncomely and decrepit old age is far
more to be dreaded and Stunned than
death. Who wants an ugly, wrinkled
old woman around, unpleasant and
wearisome also because of her physical
ailments? Nobody. and nobody can be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02
TALL QUEENS, LITTLE KINGS.

This is the age Of tail queens and
small kings. 1t is a curious fact that
in the case of nearly every royal mar
ried couple in Europe the wife is con-
siderably taller than the husband. The
car, who is considerably below the
average height of men, is fully head
shorter than his beautiful and majestic
czarina. The kaiser, who is well
grown man, is. nevertheless, overtopped
by the German empress. King Victor
Emmanuel of Italy scarcely reaches up
to the shoulders of Queen Helena, who
is an unusually tall woman, while he
is diminutive man.
King Charles of Portugal is also over
topped by his queen, although he makes
up in rotundity of body what he lacks
in height. The king of Spain is below
the average height of men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02

blamed therefor. And if one woman.
and she queen, can hold her youthful
beauty and physical grace and activity
till past sixty. other women certainly
can.
1t is not generally known that one
of Queen Alexandras favorite pursuits
is photography or that she is so expert
in this field she could earn her living
as an art photographer if she were
poor ana were not queen. Such.
however, is the fact. For one thing.
she has snapshoted all the royal family
and the babies of the various branches
of it and has a valuable collection of
such pictures She herself poses her
sitters.
Helena, the present queen of Italy, is
Just now very busy in bringing up her
three babies to be specimens of a Spar
banlike physical development. Her hus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02

take me off at any time. Thirty years

take me off at any time. Thirty years
ago.
But just then something took the new
boarder off. 1t had come to her out
of the air why everybody SHE'D at the
sight of the middle aged gentleman
with the double bass voice. The new
boarder had to see her dressmaker she
said, and she too slid out. AS she pass
ed the room where the two boys were
playing checkers she heard the middle
aged gentlemans son say confdentially
to his mate:
my fathers an old cranki''
The newcomer agreed with the boy.
JANE MOSES
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put pink face powder on your olive
skin. The result makes angels weep,
because the pink is apt to be blush for
one thing. and an all over pink skin is
not natural to brunettes. But you may
use all the white powder you want pro-
vided you wipe off the superfiuous.
The puff to use is one of lambs wool
that may be washed and that distrib-
utes the powder evenly and smoothly.
I shall never forget the appearance of
a girl who came to the dinner table
after having dabbed her face with a
swans down puff. Sections of staring
white and yellow transformed her, as
well as little drifts of snow white par
ticles around her temples and ears.
Then when conversation reached the
subject of powder she had the nerve to
say she never used any, in spite of the
fact that a bit of swans down was
sticking at that very moment in her
pompadour.
Next the question of rouge. The less
the better, and very high up on the face,
if you please. Never on the jaw unless
you want to add ten years to your age,
and never (this never underlined)
any on your chin, or else you will look
like badly made UP actress.
Any rouge for the daytime should be
of the pure red tone without suspicion
shade in the evening you will look as If
you had a rash, therefore two pots Of
rouge or none at all.
The liquid mixture is too difficult for
the average woman to apply without
maid. 1t leaves hard outlines. 1t is
never diluted enough, besides which in
nine cases out of ten it is purple. Bet
ter a fine pomade. which you can use
also on the lips, and the tiniest speck
ie-r 81 -s--Y-s IL
tint you went, not red spot, because
you can't reproduce really red cheeks
naturally in the daytime, and you
might as well take my word for that.
After you have put salve on your lips
moiSten them a few times. If it is
necessary to touch up your eyebrows,
match the shade perfectly in a pencil
and then brush out the griminess with
a toothbrush. People who have to
make up their eyebrows are unfortu-
nate, because it is one of the hardest
things to do.
Never touch your eyeIashes with an
eyebrow pencil. If the Iashes are too
bleached use a stick preparation similar
to brown water color, which you put on
each lash with a brush and which you
may obtain at any drug store. And,
above all, almost hang out of the win
dow to put anything on your face, and
never make up in the becoming, sub
| dued light of your room. Go out in
the cruel glare of the back yard if
possible, for many a maid has made up
in front of her dressingStable and gone
forth not to conquer. the world, but to
astound it. Oh. me. oh, my! There
| is one here at the cottage
Well, no more for this time from your
| frivolous friend,
Kz tut
l Allenhurst. N. J.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02
- HE era of the great hotel is

HE era of the great hotel is
certainly past. 1 was almost
going to say 1.-The era of the
great migration" I am re-
ferring to that chaotic period in
American social life when to go to
fashionable hotel for the summer was
the hearts desire of every family in the
land that was able to afford ft-and'
indeed, of many who were not.
Where is the fashionable hotel at
present? Almost as extinct as the dodo-
Hotels there are of course, good ones
and comfortable ones, in the sense that
they have many bathrooms and con-
veniences unheard of in the barns call
ed fashionable hotels a generation ago,
but there is no social life in them.
Nowadays you never go to summer
hotel to make acquaintance; you arrive
with your own party and make your
social rounds among the cottagers.
feeling all the while very sad because
you have no cottage yourself
There is a casino in the place, of
course, and possibly that better sub
stitute, a club. You meet your friends
there But on the hotel piazza-well,
hardly ever.
And this is as it should be. What a
relief in the spring to go to your own
house and find yourself in the midst of
your own comforts and the simple ele-
CANT country life our English brothers
and sisters have taught US to enjoy!
How much better for the children and
how much better, too. for the adults.
1 was particularly struck with the
change the other day when had a long
drive down the Jersey coast from
Spring Lake to Seabright. Literally
hundreds of beautiful cottages had
sprung up where few years ago there
were only hotels and boarding houses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02

buildings desert
ed, with their
shutters tapping
forlornly in the
wind. And such
colonial archi-
lecture pillars
thin as cats
tails and striped
like black and
brown snakes,
piazzas dusty be-
cause SO near
the road and
lined with DESC
la t e lookin &
windows, pavil-
ions without
rhyme or reason
in their struc-
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out terrace fashion, with flaming masses
of Towering plants growing around
the entrances to the graveled drive
ways. Now and then you see snow
white house beautiful in its real CO.
lonial simplicity, its tall white pillars
showing glimpses of the sea, but of the old
mixture of Greek, colonial, Moorish and
Swiss chalet only specimen remains
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02
The OPERATOR.

A twelve-year-ol girl was attempt
ing to work a new sewing machine ac-
cording to the printed Instructions All
seemed to be going well till the moth
er's attention was attracted by a deep
sigh and a whispered "Oh, DEAR I can
not find it, What is it that you can
not fnd?" the mother asked. why,
mother" was the reply, 1.-THE directions
say, Place the screw to the right OF
the OPERATOR and I can't find the ops
eratori"
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and cheerful disposition, even if 1 do
say it myself Be slow to anger-that
is the secret of long life. Live tenn
perately. The boys don't get the out
door work today they did in my time.
Fresh air and plenty of exercise viii
make you strong and healthy But
keep cheerful. That will add years to
any ones life"
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KEEP CHEERFUL

This is the prescription for longevity
given by Deacon Hammond of Con-
necticut, ninety-nine years old, and in
good health. Tive lived to be as old
as am because always had an even
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02

showed glimpses of pony carts. wicker
phaetons and other vehicles proper to
country life. Now and then one would
pass a governess' cart full of laughing
youngsters or an electric victoria guild
ed by a young matron with a curly
headed little boy by her side. 1t was
all simple and refreshing and whole
some just like the country life one
reads about in novels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02
A Delicate Subject.

believe will talk a bit on subject
which is usually mentioned in an apollo
getic Cor an Indignantly manner. 1 re-
fer to that of makeup-facial makeup.
I feel sure we are all advanced enough
to bear it without fainting. and, indeed,
when you see so much around you worn
innocently-and atrociously-by per-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02

At EIberon and Allenhurst one had to
look very hard to find anything out of
the nature of a private house. Green
lawns swept away to the oceans edge
from pretty green and red rooted cot
tages. Colonial dwellings and bunga-
lows clustered around a friendly white
clubhouse, while neat little stables
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fectly charming
and good peo-
ple-who ought
to take lessons
it is time to
speak of it sci
entifcally. And
it is safer to
talk about 1t in
print, for If you
mention it to
the person you
are likely to hear
the freezing re-
joinder: 81 beg
your pardon, I
never put any
thing on my
face. That flush
may be unbe-
L
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now and then to make US shut our eyes
and appreciate the blessed change that
has come over US as a nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02
HANDSOME FALL SUIT
STYLE OF LOUIS XVI.

That the styles of Louis XVI. are res
appearing is a matter for congratu1a-
ton, for nothing is better calculated to
set of a pretty figure. The Illustration
shows one of these suits in apple green
cloth. Around the foot of the skirt are
four lines of narrow black soutaches
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02

The skirt has seam directly in the
center. The coat and vest and the sides OF
the skirt, are embroidered in black silk,
with a little gold thread in the vest
and cuffs. The lace jabot gives the
distinctive touch. The sleeves. which
are embroidered on shoulders and cuffs
may be made long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02

One Kind Of "NobIesse ObIIge."
1 never appreciated until the other
day just what it means to be born on
the right or on the wrong side of Phila-
delphia-to Philadelphia. A friend
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02
Babylon Is Fallen.

Then we went through Long Branch
and beheld the bleaching bones of the
past-great barnlike psuedo colonial
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A GREEN YELLING FRocK.
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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-10-05

A program fairly bristing with head
line attractions and one that will bear
the closest comparison with any Of the
excellent bills seen there this season, is
announced for Keith's for the week of
Oct. 8. Staley and Birbeck, who scor, d
30 heavily about year ago and whose
dates would not permit of An earlier re-
turn, will present their lightning trans
formation act, changing from drawing
room scene to smithy, complete in
every detail in approximately two SEC
onds, including approximate changes OF
costume Some of the more notable en-
tertaners included in the surrounding
show are Will H. Murphy, Blanche
Nichols and company, In their scream
ingly funny sketch. From Il "a TO
Uncle Tom one of the funniest vehicles
in the varieties; mona Winter, pleas
ing comedienne; Lew Bloom, the clever
tramp comedian, and Jane Cooper, the
talented actress in "a Picture from
Life;' the Village hoir, a quartet of
mixed vOcalists late of Way Down
East" company, George w. Day, popular
blackfaCe comedian, with a new ine OF
funny material; the Hold this, novelty
banjoists, singers and dancers, and
Nibbe and Bordeaux in a comedy skit.
Paul Conchas, the famous heavy weight
juggler will be retained FIR another six
days, and Barronburieeqne will C ntinue
to be the big feature for the Juveniles
AS usual a complete new list of comedy
and interesting motion pictures will be
exhibited in the klnetograph.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-10-05
A QUAINT OLD CITY.
BruReH, the Chief Industry of Whic
Is Lace Making.

Bruges lace has been made In the
converts of Bruges 10y old women
whose hands have grown stiff clicking
the bobbins back and forth, who learn
ed when they We're children from othol
old women, Who in turn had learned II
from other old women, and 50 on back
for hundreds of years. Lace mRking is
the chief industry of this city of Bel
GUM. the capital of the province OF
West Flanders, but that it has not
made for the prosperity of the place
is attestcd by the fact that in popu.
lation of something like 10000 there
are 5000 paupers 1t is a very quaint
old city the corporation of weayers OF
Bruges having been celebrated in the
time Of Charemagne. 1t reached the
height Of It's prosperity in the fifteenth
century. when it was one Of the great
commercial emporiums of the world
and WAS famed far and wide for it,
tapestries. The great prosperity how
ever, led to such eXtrayagaut habits in
dress and social life that Charles V
was obliged TO pass stringent sumptu
airy laws. Complications between sub
sequent rulers and the people led tc
the removal of all trade to Antwerp
and the ruin of Bruges as IA CONNER
cial center, but the name and fame OF
its lace have been impershable.-New
York Herald