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The Colorado statesman., 1906-05-19
The Matinee-Jacket Girl

The matinee girl and the matinee
jacket girl need not be at all alike;
one loves to spend sentimental hours
with stage hero, one loves to lounge
in budoir privacy and comfort.
But in summer there are days when
we are all matineeIjacket inclined,
when even the most energetic is glad
to take to comfortable loose negligee
and comfortable pillowed couch
wherefore 1t is well to present little
talk on presentday styles in negligee
costume.
One may spend small fortune on
tea-sacket and tea-gown. and one may
attain very attractive ones for only
small outlay. Imported, handmade
lingerie affairs cost way up. are i'm
possible for the average purse; but
one may throw together oneself If at
all capable. some filmy stuff and feel
quite content with results. There are
figured swisses that that need but
little trimming and are inexpensive
and very appropriate for summer
lounging robe and sack; there are
wash silks that are likewise inexpen-
sive and pretty mulls, lawns, handker
chief linen-any number of materials.
Empire styles are liked, the short
wasted girdle made of insertion and
lace Hike that with which the garment
IS trimmed. The loose sack, loose
from short yoke down, is still in ia
vor, and the other day we saw a nov
city In the way of one meant to slip
on over the head. This had square
neck. the opening large enough to go
over the head easily, and there was
avoided the usual problem of how to
keep loose sack closed-as a rule
always unfastening at the most awk-
ward moment.
or course, sleeves are all short. for
coo]ness. and to give the dressy look
desired. Sometimes the sleeve will
be mere rufile. deep frill. The
lowered dimities and organdies are
preferred by some. for the reason that
there is less of night-gown appear
ance in colored materials. Made up
with three tiny frills at the bottom, a
lace yoke and lace-trimmed sleeves,
there is less of night-gown appear
The designs of the day. the neat little
rosebud patterns, are well suited to
these dainty negligees.
Challis is an excellent material to
select for the lightweight tea-gown.
and the challis OF the season are par
ucularly pretty for house gowns, cot
ton crepes are also effective. very good
for the long-trailing Empire modes.
With such gown one should take
The Colorado statesman., 1906-05-19

Shirt waists of snowy white, sheer
waist of snowy white, all womankind
arrayed in summer stuffs. 1t is hard
to tell where the shirt waist stops
and lingerie waist begins, for they
are so closely related. One sees a
charming negligee shirt waist that
looks like boating shirt, the sleeves
short with turn-back cuffs, the collar
n lay-down, easy bit of neckwear fin
tshed with soft, easy-loolsing,i tie.
This promises to be a feature of
waists of the summer of 1906, and one
can readily see it has considerable
TO recommend it, perhaps the chief
thing the unmistakable air of COM
fort The pretty sailor is very ap-
propriate accompaniment.
We must be either very short waist
ed to-day or else very long wasted and
Bvelte-Empire modes or elongated
bodice. The models shown in the il
!ustration belong decidedly to the lat
ter class. On the lingerie blouse of
latest style we find the trimming
slightly different from last year, the
chief novelty, perhaps. the use of
heavy lace and embroidery on sheer
material. used in narrow inset lines.
II is pretty idea, emphasizes the
fineness of the material. Not a few
of the new lingerie blouses are quite
low in the neck; there are some with
square neck, some V-shaped, and
The Colorado statesman., 1906-05-19

others with the round Dutch neck
also styled the Alice Roosevelt All
sleeves are short.
One sees such lovely shades of
green this year, and though green hats
cannot be said to retain the popular.
ity of a couple of years back those
that ara abroad are generally extreme
ly pretty. The green most approved
is soft gray green, not the brilliant
emerald obtaining earlier There is
no color cooler looking in summer,
more refreshing. and when becoming
1t is a wise choice for warm weather
frock. Charming green voilies are no
ticed, and some charming green taffe.
tas.
For evening wear crepe de chine is
in high favor, and favored trimming
is the new ribbon embroidery.
Touches of black velvet are much used,
very pretty with summer gowns. 1t is
seen rather on evening occasions than
for the street, where there is observ
able more harmony than contrast.
And speaking of street costumes,
everybody is getting weary of corselet
skirt and abbreviated bolero, the
short-waisted jackets that extend be.
low the waist line are in better style;
this sort, they look so simple and
neat not ambitious and obtrusive lik
the tisht-ftting corselet.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-05-19

L I.
pains to dress the hair in picturesque.
high fashion. and with a careless
looseness in harmony with the negli-
gee costume. One can be comfortable
and at the same time have regard for
appearances-and If this is adhered to
we shall find fewer criticisms.
Japan ana China, lands where wom-
en- are supposed to spend their days in
uninterrupted ease, lend us good ideas
for negligee costumes, and we have
borrowed the pagoda sleeves, modified
the kimona to suit our ideas. We
also borrow the foot gear of the orient
to certain extent, their cool sandals
and silken shoes. The inexpensive
Turkish slippers. which come in such
delectable hiues and bronzes, often are
Just the thing to accompany loung-
ing costumc-depending, of course.
upon the style and color of the gown
or jacket. Dainty underclothes should
be worn with the lounging toilet. lei
nothing disturb the effect of exquisite
ness and repose. 1t makes one shud-
der to see an exquisite lSimona above
heavy calf-skin shoes, and one does
not particularly care for a Japanese
gown accompanied by Turkish foot
wear. Just little thought, attention
to details, IS needed for right dressing
not lot of money.
ELLEN osMoNLl
The Colorado statesman., 1906-05-19
Thr Mnnel mtfr
ann Nrr Thrnttr
By REV. A. R. LAMBERT.

club life social functions wife becomes =,
most stranger to husband and children
For the husband give other env onuents
home feto spend all his evenings to lnpe - M
cups in the gambling hours he onoh. 20
his wife and cldren to fail his personality pon the
fe-is reprehensibe indeed; but to neglect t h
to undermine the foundations republic nd -
the wch make tor the nations well being happiness
The model wife is consecrated womanlood-
through the days and weeks and of her
The real throne OF the model wife the home know ,b.
exceptions am familiar with the Clara Bartons the loan o
the Frances Wizards and Others who turned aside
home actual prospective and the world bv 60 d;
particular. is the home. ~ WIG ~
The Colorado statesman., 1906-05-19

One of the most la
mentable tendencies OF
the times is that which
manifests a disposition
to depreciate the home
and to turn the duties OF
wife and mother over
to domestics while the
supposed head of the
The Colorado statesman., 1906-05-19

To be good, it is not
enough to abstain from
what is i'll; nor is doing
good an equivalent for
being good. In order
to be good, the very
core of life must be
kept pure and sweet,
Notwithstanding a p
pearances to the con-
The Colorado statesman., 1906-05-19

hesitate to inclined what think rsoue what
the French people recognize only natural and
That is the trouble with American audiences They always
looking for something shocking and they generally succeed find
ing it.
Americans regard the French extremely free their
the limits OF liberation the Americans
with all their readiness to discover something off color
There great l
inclined to think has geographical limitations While Amer
leans regard the French people the looking upon
Americans as decidedly not risque-bu
The tendency something vulgar where vugay does
exist only condition of development condition
OF Development intellectual and artistic that uncutud
evil nude The subeness risque
drama accompanies only higher intellectual
regarding the entirely different from the
Interpretation, which fear
highest spiriuele development
Americans are intelligent wideawake, appecatve they
progressive and responsive what appeals hem look for
ward to the time when they will develop their puee concp
tons when they will take subtle and things
The Colorado statesman., 1906-05-19
Amrrtratta Nut Rtapmr-
I1tt Mnrr 5n
By MADAM YvErrE GILBERT.

1MERICANS the French people of audacity in deal
ing with certain subjects the DRAMA and in literature
they vulgar but the French dramatsts
Ssy and writers, it is not the French people- is
|g2RGE2I American language that is fault
ETHTN Foreign artists to this country, and they
USSI eered by commercial considerations that they WI
~ u not speak their minds. They pretend they do not
Y - notice difference the viewpoint, who
araf foad daEA 4laA nIa do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10

Rather than force him to disgorge
the remaining SIS. and knowing fun
well his wife would send back the
check for the insufficient amount he
actually made up the difference out Of
his own pocket and presented the prop
er sum to the triumphant lady that
evening.
But if she knew the truth she would
be simply furious.
y -
It was the same woman Who puP-
chased some valuable carved chairs in
Italy and had them taken to pieces.
thus evading the customs duties on
manufactured articles"
And when, in the blue grotto at
Capri, the r~ascally guide threatened to
upset the boat if the party did not
s5c d..or~ 5o~, 1o-oo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10
FLORA WILSON.

society girls Will undoubtedly be tn
terested 10 learn that Miss shaw Is
noted for the parity Of her English
This is 50 unusual, you know. 1t is
said she does aot really care for So
turns from them in ordar g assist her
mother with the social burden. The
young lady had thoughts and IDEAS OF
her " from the time she began 20
think at all There is one story her
mother is fond of telling on her. She
vas taught in babyhood 10 say at night
the child's prayer New / lay ne down
to sleep" She said the rhyme one
night as usual. then looked Up with
puzzled face at her mother and asked
Mother. If I should die before [ wake.
how would know was dead! =
The other woman scholar OF the cabi-
net circle, Miss Flora Wilson, daughter
Of the secretary Of agriculture, made
her Washington debut sore time ago.
but her books and her own thoughts
fascinate and hold her far mere than
cabinet calls. hops ard heavyweight
dinners. She, TOO. mas been studying
in Europe a year CT two.
IN the diplomatic corps. as IN the
cabinet, there is this season only one
debuntante, Baroness Elizabeth vou
Rosen, daughter of the Russian ambas-
sador.
She spent the summer with her par
ents at their country place At Mag
nolia. Mass.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10

years old. In a class Of eighty grad
yates Enid Shaw took such high rank
that she was chosen for one of the
commencement orators. Her mother.
an ardent admirer Of Tennyson, named
her for one of the great poets heroines.
The daughter inherited the love for
T-ennysonian poetry, and it holds her
to this day. Her college commence
ment thesis was on the philosophy Of
Tennyson's poems. 1t was classed as
showing unusual ability.
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When Leslie NJ. Shaw became secre-
tary of the treasury, in 1902, Mrs. Shaw
wished Enid to leave college and enter
Washington society, but the girl was
unwilling. Not till she was able to
write B. A. after her name could so
ciety draw her away from her studies.
Even during the past year. in Paris,
with her sister, his learned young lady
has been studying all h time. She is
an admirable linguist. With the ex-
ception perhaps Of Miss Wilson. daugh-
ter of the secretary of agriculture. Enid
Shaw is the most scholarly member of
the feminine set connected with the
Official social circle at Washington.
American women naturally feel proud
of those two girls. They are. like their
mother, strong original, and are
an Impressive addition TO Washington
society.
Enid Shaw resembles her father
strikingly. She has blue eyes, brown
hair and a rare complexion. American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10
rome Nesv Styles IN Interior Decoration

I have just seen an old white kitchen,
by the way, and Pm crazy over it.
Don't imagine this is an extrava-
gance. It is much easier to touch up
white walls than coIored ones. and
they can be scrubbed with even better
success.
The kitchen I have in mind was an
old one which an idiotic former tenant
had painted a serviceable (?) pale
brown.
It gave one the blues.
It was painted, under the new regime,
white from top to bottom. The floor
was treated to a covering of blue and
white oilcloth.- The kitchen table was
| covered with the same. On the walls
were rows of white enameled sauce
pans. The kitchen towels We're of
I coarse weave, with dull blue borders.
and on the shelves (also covered with
blue and white oiIcloth) stood an ar
| ray of cheap kitchen blue and white
China purchased at the japanese
store.
Now isn't that a positive inspiration
for any maid?
A bedroom belonging to a friend is so
I unique that it merits a word or two.
1t is all done IN pale blue satin finish
paper. The ceiling is brought down on
the side walls about eighteen inches.
There is no molding, but instead a "eut
OUT design of blond cupids, upholds a
handsome pale pink ribbon. The wood
work of the roonl is white, of course,
and the whole effect resembles Ores
den china.
It is a melancholy fact that some
women are shrewder than their hus-
bands in business matters.
Melancholy. but true, my friends.
Whether this arises from the fact that
men are naturally more easy going in
small things 1 don't know. but for close
bargaining in small matters give me
the woman every time.
Listen to this, for instance:
John Jones bought for his wife last
ummeF a horse for $50 and a ear
rage for s25=5ust for vacation use,
you understand. AT the end of the
summer he intended to sell them for
about half what they cost him. even
that arrangement being cheaper than
hiring a horse for three months.
But this idea was positively repellant
to the astute Mrs. Jones.
She drove a sharp bargain with a
man. at the end Of which he agreed to
buy the horse and wagon for S225.
Notice the profit after the beast had
been used all summer. and admire. oh.
my friends,
But when h prospective purchaser
reached home he thought over the
situation. and. knowing human nature.
he sent to the husband a check Tor $500
for the horse and wagon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10

Baroness E!izabsth Is a trim, taller
made looking maiden IT seventeen.
She IS quite girtish n har ways, al
though dignIhed ard reserved enough
to be the daughter % a statesman whc
says:
Diplomacy Is ike Whist; It must be
played in silence"
Baron Won Roses has represented his
government In several countries. and
his wife and daughter have accom-
panied him to his various posts. SO
that Elizabeth has been nearly all over
the world. some Rave said she would
perhaps take the social place left va
cant in The Russian lsgation by Count
ess Cassini. Wet hardly. Baroness
Elizabeth is not thar sort. Besides,
her. mother wcul1 Tot let her.
= =
Washington society hoped hat littls
Miss Cheng, daughter If the Chinese
minister, would De permitted byener
august papa 20 eTte= she capital society
his winter It woaid be a rev sensa-
ton for WashiHgtoAe besides marking
the first emergsuceAof g Chinese wo-
man of rank from absoluse seCiusion.
But, no! Sir Chanting Lang CheRg
evidently does notsapprove # the Csw
woman. Ths gosd cid vay-or ths
BAD old way-ts good sEough for tim.
His young lady daughter IS kep- IN the
background. She may cot nave the
happiness even Ct getting rsv fash
Toned clothes, butsnAst follow fashions
at least 1000 years cid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10

sists in having a satin stripe pure
white paper, headed by a cut out de-
sign of pink or pale yellow roses.
Speaking of the treatment of walls,
by the way, borders have gone out of
fashion completely. The ceiling is
painted pure white, and the white effect
is continued down the walls to a depth
of eighteen inches, where it meets the
picture molding. Any fanciful cut out
design may be used below this.
You have no idea how very effective
this is. It makes the room look large
and airy.
Some people buy the old fashioned
borders or friezes and cut them out
either to make panels or to decorate in
floral effect. That seems a very good
idea to me.
= =
The English are responsible for our
reversion to pale colors. They are very
fond of art cretonnes, and these can on
~ be used with the lightest of wood
work and mural decorations. So there
you are.
When I was in London I saw a
charming room, which was almost en-
tirely white. 1t had a deep wainscoted
effect, white satin stripe paper and a
cream oriental rug family decorated in
pale green. The effect was stunning.
The dining room, which led from
this, was also treated with white wood
work and w-ainscoting, and what was
left of the walls was covered with a
very light tapestry consisting of
punches Of roses on a cream ground.
A plate rack holding ran around the
room at the read of the w-ainscoting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10
81 drore q saarp 5araaIn.

pay double fares. it was this intrepid
woman who declared she would sit in
the bottom OF the lake until Judgment
day rather than submit to such extor-
ton.
She would doubtless be there at the
present moment if the only mar in the
party had not lost his nerve and
"coughed up"
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So much for the weaker sex when
once it turns its mind to matters prac-
teal.
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~
Union. Its debutantes
themselves. mostly daughters of Off
Gals and army and navy officers, come
from the different quarters of the
Union-north, south. east and west.
Each section of the country has a home
interest in one or more of h annual
washington debutantes.
Iowa this year will specially note
the social debut of Miss Erma Shaw.
second daughter of the secretary of the
treasury. Miss Erma, a healthy, whole
some, bright faced girl. has been study
ing in Europe h past ear She and
her older sister, Enid, were together
in Paris. They returned not long ago
to their native land and viii be in
Washington society together.
Erma Shaw is the only debutante in
the cabinet circle this yea For a So
eiety girl she is. like her sister Enid,
uncommonly well and solidly educated.
The two sisters viii contribute their
share of intellectual life to a set too
often accused of lacking brains.
Erma Shaw has a very girlish face.
That of Enid expresses thought devel-
opment beyond her years. In the sea-
son of 1903 Enid was presented to
Washington society at a tea given by
her mother. She had been graduated
in June from the coed college al
Cornell, la. She was twenty-One
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10

son when burn
ed orange was
the extreme of
modishness and
when we did"
u rooms in
even er
tones than we
dressed in if
that was posi-
Bile.
The parlor pa
per, therefore, is
a cross between
red n straw .
berry - a par
ticularly glow
ing shade, and
it does not har-
monte at all
with the new
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10
THE WORLD As n IS
New York.

It's a say old world when you're gay
And a glad old world when you're glad.
But whether you play
Or go toiling away
It's 4 sad old world when you're sad.
It's a grand old world if you're great
And a mean old world If you're small
It's a world full of hate
For the foolish who pirate
OF the uselessness of it all.
It's j beautiful world to see
Or it's dismal in every zone
The thing il must be
In its gloom or its giee
Depends Oh yoursclI alone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10
KATE AND KITE.

An English clergyman engaged two
servants, one of whom came from the
country and the other from London,
and each spoke in her own dialect.
Both were named Catherine, and the
vicar was asked If this was not, con-
fusing. Not at ALL he replied, Il call
the country one Kate and the London
girl Kite, and they never have any
doubt as to which one 1 am address,
ing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10

on the first syllable. Miss Edith is q
brilliant to Washington So
ciety.
v =
It is said that this is to be a great
fencing winter in the national capital
Women are preparing for regular prac-
tice with the foi1s, and the old fencing
club of which Count Cassini was presi-
den has been reorganized. Certainly
Washington women, young and old,
likewise other women, can dc nothing
better both for their gracefulness and
good looks than to practice fencing. It
viii make a stout woman thinner, a
thin woman plump and in time would
take away from American beauties the
reproach that they walk ~awkwardly.
LILLIAN GRAY.
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"" ASHTON is not the only thing
which changes. Interior dec
grafton also has its moods,
"A and no one realizes this more
bitterly than the housekeeper of lin
tied means or the apartment house
dwelIer whose landlord is mean and
who insists that the parlor paper is
still good enough, although it has been
on the walls W. years.
The a the parlor paper was put
On. by the way. was that verY loud sea-
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and this was
filed with deli
cate bits Of
Limoges china.
The window
curtains of this
dainty room
were of old rose
brocade.
Really and
truly the day of
the heavy dark
dining room is
over. We have
learned to eat
in cheerful
places, and
while some peo-
pie still cling to
brown paper
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10

If the front of a white shirt gets
scorched in the ironing the unsightly
marks may be removed by rubbing it
with a little borax dry.
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Two .s5re IF the Interesting Wash
Misses Theodore and Marguerite
Snonts, daughters of Isthmian Canal
Commissioner Shonts. The young la
dies were at school in Washington last
year. At the close of the school they
went with their parents for a tour of
Europe, during which they were pre-
ented to Queen Alexandra by Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid, CT whom Queen Alex
andra is said to be very fond. The
Misses Shonts. therefore. being pre-
sented at court, made their society de-
but il England before doing so in their
own country.
Miss Jean Reid. daughter of Am
bassador Whitelaw Reid, also has been
presented at the British court before
entering society in her own country.
She is expected to spend the winter in
Washington.
A Washington d%ebutante of striking
appearance is Miss Constance Hoyt,
with her dark, straight eyebrows and
a~ristocratic face. Her parents are So
Iicitor General and Mrs. Henry NJ
Hoyt.
Washington zebutantas are 50 nu-
nler5us lis season that not many can
be named. One is Olga Converse,
daughter Of Rear Admiral Converse.
Another is Miss Leutze, whose father
IS Ccmmandant Eugene H. C. Leutze
Miss Esther Dsany, daughter of Colo