The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-18

oldest and most prominent families in
town.
Mrs. Harry 0. Carney has asked six
teen guests for luncheon at the Coun-
try club Monday in compliment to Miss
celeste Ne1lis whose marriage to Mr..
Harmon Ryus of Los Angeles takes
place in June.
There is great excitement over the re-
port that bride who will come to To-
peka soon has a maid. This will raise
the limit and establis a new record IN
Topeka. Occasionally a Topeka woman
steals the housemaid or nurse, exchange
their caps and aprons for the lady's
maid kind and takes her out of town
with her in order to make a. noise like
an aristocrat but 1t Is believed the new
bride will be the only woman in To-
peka who has a really and truly lady's
maid all her own who never helps out in
the kitchen, nursery or laundry.
When a selling platter. who has been
a hot favorite In the front porch and
parlor game in his day, finds himself
occasionally In the running again, It
Is his long suit to pick out the biggest
and most comfortable chair. lean back
lazily and regale the company OF
Young Things about him with details
about the Kind of a Girl He Likes. The
fact that It is no longer a matter of
Inucn importance TO anybody what kllQ
of a girl he likes deters him not at all.
He loves to pretend that the reason he
has never married is that he has never
found his Ideal. Time was when this
cynical old bachelor pose made a great
hit with romantic and impresstOnable
girls and foolish young matrons who
were far enough past the honeymoon
stage to believe that their husbands
did not appreciate nor understand them
But he seems to have gone out of fash
ion and even the very young girls now
adays seem to prefer man with I'm
seated enthusiasm and enough physical
energy left to dance whole pro-
gramrne through. extras, encores and
all. The reason the selling platter has
never married is that he has preferred
his freedom and independence and has
been unwilling to undertake the cares
and responsibilities of marriage. The
women he has known have had moth
ing to do with It. He might have met
his Ideal a thousand times, but If he
had and had felt himself in any dan
ger Of captivating to her charms, he
would have run away from her. In time
the selling platter marries some nice
girl, no more resembling the vague
outlines of his hypothetical heroine
than any one of a dozen others he has
known all his life. He is ready to
marry and succumbs to the natural
longing for domesticity which over
comes most middle aged men: that's
all the difference. His grandstand
plays about the Kind of Girl He
likes are among the first indtca tons of
his f1nish-an almost certain sign that
although he talks pessim1stically on the
subject and has no faith that he will
ever meet her in the flesh, he is really
looking about him and getting ready
to fall into the net of the first woman
who believes that he has the making
for an endurable husband. Sometimes
the selling platter departs long enough
from his favorite topic to give father
II Nr~V4z - ie
not really old: if he were, he would be
the first to resent such an implication.
But he AFFECTS the blase and indifferent
He has some unconfessed regrets for his
lost enthusiasms. Although It Is
his own fault that he has dropped out
Of the game he has a fierce Jealousy
for the men of his own age and set
who have kept In it and are fitting
about from flower to flower, or rather
from bud to bud, with succeeding sea-
sons of debutantes as gaily as ever.
He speaks of them sneeringly as lead
ers of society," and loves to twit them
about their age, although he really en-
vfas them their ability to resist those
a bow window and a weakness for bed
at 10 o'clock every night. But far be
It from anyone to knock on the s. P.
He is the most harmless and amusing
institution OF society. and life would
really not be the same without him.
Lawrence world: Miss l. Margaret
f Douglas, of Topeka who has been the
physical instructor Of the women s
classes at the z. NJ. G. A, and who
+ left last evening for her home in Az
rcra. ILL., having completed her term of
work here and in Topeka, had de-
liEhtful compliment paid her when
Miss Nina Craeber entertained q few
! friends with launching party last ey-
ening The trip was made up the river
as far as Cadys grove and back again.