The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-17
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Mrs. Charles Holiday will take
party Of young girls to Lake View to
spend next week. The girls will be
Miss Elizabeth Holiday, Miss Jean
Rodgers, Miss Esther Rodgers, Miss
Marjorie Whitney and Miss Marguerite
Parkinson.
~ have stunning new bathing
suit" writes a girl from the seashore.
Really 1t Is awfully goOd-looking
But I don't dare go In with it because
II it should shrink one fraction of an
inch the policeman would simply nave
10 arrest me"
Mrs. H. L. P. Hillyer viii entertain
the Monday whist club at its next
meeting.
The Felicity whist club played at
Ninewood this morning and the game
was followed by luncheon at the cafe.
A very pretty young bud who has
been receiving the somewhat interInlt-
tent attentions of a Chicago bachelor
who is also. interested in another To
REhd BlIE mas new @AAlIS " AAIA Nv
i'm the person of a good looking at
torney whose jealous contemporaries
are beginning to call him 'cradie-
robber."
y Mrs. c. F. Menninger. gave a tea
iast night for Miss Louise Worthing-
ton of Kansas City.
Miss Nellie Raster is giving a pic
mic today on the Washburn campus for
the members Of her Sunday school
class who are Helen Bennett, Gertrude
Glover. Dorothy Wahle. Anna Crane,
Grace Wolf, Lois Conron, Ruth Har-
haugh.
The members of the Gae Lang club
and their families will have picnic
this evening at Vinewood. In the party
will be Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Rogers, MI
and Mrs. Nelson Giles, Mr.. and Mrs
Jay Van Houten. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Kiingaman. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Wor-
ley Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Lang, Mrs
Morrow, Miss Mida Cross
Miss Grace Reed entertained the
members of her Sunday school class
at picnic at VinewoOd Saturday. she
was assisted by her mother Mrs
George Reed and her sister. Miss May
Reed. The guests included Ruth Eos
ter Florence Bowman. opal HeiNiN
Vera Yawter Jessie McCarter kath-
arine McCarter. Leila Gunther Gladys
Guild and Evelyn Reed.
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A Topeka girl spending the summer
abroad writes home.
When the English women goes a-sea-
bathing she gets into a bath-wagon,
which is bath-house on wheels and
horse pulls il out into the water hub
high Then the girls undresses in Its
wave surrounded solitude, opens the
door on a horizon of limitless blue and
goes down its three steps into the wa
ter Tt is like bathing off the coast of
a desert island. 50 the English wOnlan's
bathing suit is as limited as it is possible
to imagine. For one thing she wears no
shoes nor stockings. This feature made
a hit with the French woman So for its
sake she adopted the bath-wagOn. All
this was years and years ago when
French women first began to borrow
English women's ideas. But the bath
wagon didn't last long. Tt rocked, and
the fair occupant screamed. and it was
slow. and tiresonne. and expensive-and
lonesome beyond words So they hit
upon the simpler and now generally
adopted device of the peignor-in other
words an all-enveloping bathrobe i'm
which she makes the journey from the
bath-house across the beach to the surf.
But with it she still retained the idea
of the stockingless bathing suit She
wears sandals to protect her feet but
goes bare-legged.
OF ocrr~9 the bathrobe is supposed to