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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-08
WORRIED WOMEN TRAVELLERS.

A woman writes: The observant wo-
man VIII continue to be observant even
when on travelling thoughts intent, and
during my holiday journeyings this
season / have been more than ever
struck by the harassed, almost agonized
look of my feminine fellow travellers.
One cannot help feeling that holiday
taken. under these conditions must add
at least ten years to a. woman's age,
for such deep and anxious burrows are
not readily erased. This anxiety must,
in many cases at least, account for the
wearied look which clings around holt
day makers on their return, and which
is usually put down to late hours and
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MAS Holm G. CARLISLE.

Mrs. Carlisle had much to do with the
launching of Miss Mary Letter (Lady
Curzon of Kedleston) into Wash
ington society, while Mrs. Carlisle was
the first to welcome to the presidential
home ''the bride of the White House.,
as Miss Frances Folsom was called
when she married Grover Cleveland.
Mrs. Carlisle had always quaint and
characteristic way of expressing her
own opinions regarding people and
things. One of the ladies of the cabi-
net tells a story of her shopping in
Washington one day. She was exami-
ming some silk petticoats when 10
quacious shop walker came up and be-
gan a speech, explaining their excel
lent qualities. Mrs. Carlisle stopped
lingering the silk and gazed at him
stonily for a second, then she said:
Look here, young man, know more
about this than you do. You never
wore petticoat in your life!"
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CONFESSIONS.

The craze for the confession album
apparently dies harder than most
things of its kind, and its latest devel-
opment is dedicated to the finger prints
of ones friends. How many people
will become FESTIVE under the demand
for finger Impressions, which. after all,
are more readily granted than those
written confessions as to what we liked
and did not like in vogue some years
ago. Doubtless many persons who con-
fded their feelings to the morocco
bound volume which found a niche in
every household, have changed their
opinions many a time since then, and
sometimes people scan their former sem
sations-hoarded up against them by
an accumu1ative friend-with derision
and disbelief There is a good deal of
amusement to be found in the con-
fession album, but it holds something
of pathos, too, between its covers, when
one recolIects how many of those who
laughingly inscribed their opinions
have gone over to the majority.
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strings. She would rightly consider
that to be silly performance.
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Laura Butler, another American
stage beauty, has somewhat of the
Frenchwoman's smile, without any of
its suggestiveness. That the Ameri-
can girl can very well do without in
her smile, on the stage or off. Laura
Butler is a very handsome girl, and
she smiles to perfection with her
pretty mouth. But if you cover the
mouth with your hand and leave the
upper part of the face visible you will
find no suggestion of a smile in Laura
Buffers eyes. Make the same expert
ment with the photo of Calves Car
men" face and you will find in the
eyes alone a smile absolutely devilish.
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Another stage star whose smile is
notable is Paula Edwardes. 1t is the
expression of good nature and salts
faction with the world, if not with
herself. Paula Edwardes' professional
experience has been fortunate. When
quite young she saw in a New York
paper an advertisement that a girl
was wanted by Edward Harrigan for
vertisement in person and got at once
a small part in "Squatter Sovereignty"
She is now starring in comic opera
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1t is said, no doubt truly, that some
of the most fetching stage smiles have
been painstal1ingly practiced before a
mirror. Well, it is better even to
smile into a looking glass than never
to smile at all There is one SMILE
however, that is not made up and
never can be initiated. That is the
radiant smile of Ellen Terry. On the
stage or off it shines upon the be-
holder with a burst of sweetness and
brightness. Ellen Terry never got
that smile practicing before a looking
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KISS THEM coon NIGHT.

The tales are told, the songs are sung
The evening romp is over,
And up the nursery stairs they climb,
With little buzzing tongues that chime
Like bees among the clover.
Their busy brains and happy hearts
Are full of crowding fancies;
From song and tale and make believe
A wondrous web of dreams they weave
And airy child romances.
The starry night is fair without,
The new moon rises slowly,
The nursery lamp is burning faint,
Each white robed like a little saint
Their prayers they murmur lowly.
Good night The tired heads are STILL
On pillows soft reposing,
The dim and dizzy mists of sleep
About their thoughts begin to creep;
Their drowsy eyes are closing.
Good night While through the silent
air
The moonbeams pale are streaming
They drift from day1ights noisy shore.
Blow out the light and shut the door
And leave them to their dreaming.
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self conscious. She will always be ap-
preciated and in demand. If I were a
mother (by the way how do you know
that I am not?). l would give my
daughter on her marriage day this
motto to hang over her dressing table
q say dressing table for, I fancy, she
would run more chance of seeing 1t
often there:
Remember, she who stands still goes
backward"
If she lived up to that, shouldn't
have any worries about her happiness
or anything else about her.
1t is a grand thing to keep well ball
anced in this world. is it not? So now
for something else trifie more frivo-
lous.
Are you in doubt about what to do
after dinner? Have a fortune teller up
to read the palms of your guests.
Stupid? Not a bit of it, The secret
of the charm is that we all love so to
hear things about ourselves that we
consider conversation on that subject
the most interesting in the world. We
don't even mind if our faults are told
to US or death by hanging predicted 1t
only makes us more interesting in our
own eyes
That is the reason fortune tellers
rarely die poor People will pay almost
anything for half an hours f1attery-
1 think it is positively duty for a
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the Cannaraderie Of Married Life

know the rules. 1t helps you vastly to-
ward being popular.
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The trouble with most married wom-
en- is that they talk too much about
their children. Next to making the mis-
take of being a slave to the nursery
comes the still worse mistake of giving
evidence of it.
People don't go into society of an
evening to hear about Geraldine's first
tooth or how much little Tommy weigh
ed when he was six months old.
Anyway, there is no worse congress
of lies 60 than one of these informal
mothers meetings. The children are
made to do everything but walk at
from two to four months, according to
their fond parents recital of it.
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millions. In hundreds of plain Ameri-
can homes today the tragedy of the
wife who falls behind her husband and
children is a very grim one.
If you doubt me read the CORE
spondence column of any woman's
magazine. Half the contributors are
either very young girls without the
proper maternal guidance or middle
aged women who feel hopelessly ''out
of it,
81 find myself unable to follow my
children in their studies. How shall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-08

glass. A fairy godmother gave it to
her at birth. And Ellen Terry's acting
is as natural as her smile She is the
same off the stage as on, always grace
full, bright sunny tempered and merry.
On her arrival in America to begin her
present tour to the newspaper people
who met her at the pier she said, with
this same rare, sweet smile:
ct hope to come here many, many
times. / shall come as many times as
the American people want me to do
So"
Those who had the privilege of see
ing lovely, lamented Adelaide Nelson
will remember that she had the same
kind of magnetic smile that Ellen
Terry has, natural too, with the sweet
mouth slightly curling up at the cor
ners. Lovable and gentle as those are
one sometimes sees lin dreams was
Nelson in private life. So. too, Ellen
no smile trainingl
There are philosophers who say,
Smile, oh, smile, always, and if you
can't smile, grin. But have never
known any of these philosophers who
took his own advice. They are apt to go
dOOul 81 uHiPy do any DONy Wli0ll tHO
weather gets perfectly awful or they
threw3a fit of govt. Zone, a new
thotter,'' who writes things and signs
them THE Smiling Philosopher or
words to- that effect, is said to in
dulge in long drawn out fiery Smiles
of quite another kind, than those he
recommends Ito his readers. So it
goes.
Actresses whose faces are part of
their stock in trade are forced to train
themselves to wear a bright, attractive
smile. On the whole, isn't it a pity
there is not a law compelling all wo-.
men to do the same? How-much bet
ter looking the whole feminine sex
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woman to keep up on card games
and current forms of amusement.
re-
If there is anything exasperating, it
is to give a dinner and afterward pro-
pose bridge (Which everybody plays to
the exclusion of everything else) only to
find that one of your women guests
doesn't play.
Well, why doesn't she? is the angry
question you ask yourself. The evening
is broken up. No one seems to play
what she plays, and she plays what no
one else does. So you make up your
mind you just won't ask her again.
1t is not necessary to excel in any
one thing. but it is a great scheme to
be able to hold your own at several
forms of amusement or at least to
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overexertion. The really happy trav-
eler is not easy to find, but when found
it will be noticed that her luggage
never goes astray, that she invariably
secures a comfortable seat without I'M
due energy being exerted and that she
reaches the end of her journey cool and
unfuff1ed, with hat gracefully poised
and veil all that it should be. There
has been no wasted energy about her;
she has labeled her luggage carefully
and has then left it to porters and fate,
with happy consciousness that it will
probably arrive at its destination in due
time and order
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him shut up" that discovers sudden
ly he does not belong to her any
longer. I feel particularly sorry for
the wife who has no time to cultivate
her intellect 1t is no unusual sight
to behold a man advance with rapid
strides in the world, become a per-
sonage and be invited to the homes of
prominent people On these occasions
he meets their wives, and The con-
trast. between them and his own be-
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The artfully arranged hair and the
frilled. fiounced and befurbeIowed bon
net add to the childish effect.
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In fine contrast, observe the smile
of Anna Held. Does it not say in
everything but words to every individ-
ual who beholds it: There's a secret
understanding between you and me.
We know, oh, yes, we know, but I'll
never tell, never, while grass grows
or wind blows or water f1ows'" And
yet. in private life. Mime. Anna Held
is a sedate, irreproachable wife, whose
husband, NJ. Ziegfeld, is her manager
and always travels with her.
The same sort of suggestive smile
a trifle less subtle, a bit coarser-is
manifest on the face of Emma CaIve
here shown in the character of that
reckless young savage of a gypsy wo-
man, Carmen, who says:
Free Carmen has been, free she al
ways will be-
Yet in private life neither is Calve
anything of a Carmen. Apart from
woman even as other women, except
that she has stronger character and
may she pardon allusion to it--a
hotter temper than the average of her
sex.
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Pleasant is the smile, good are the
teeth. of Augusta True, sitting in
straw pile; chewing her hat strings. 1t
is a pretty picture. that of Augusta
True, with her smile. No exception
can be taken to the smile. To the pic
ture itself there might be. on the
ground that no country maiden ever
sits in a straw pile. and if she did sit
in a straw pile she would not do it
with her best white dress on. She
would value her good clothes too high
ly for that. Then, again. no country
girl would ever chew on her white hat
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THE RIGHT ANSWER.
New York.

There is a sharp point of pathos in
this story, which was related at a tenn
perance meeting.
A man who had ruined his health by
heavy drinking sat looking sadly at his
wife, to whom he had MAJ many
promises of REFORM
Jenny" he said. you are a clever
woman-a courageous, good woman.
You should have married better man
than am"
She looked at him. prematurely bag
gard and old. Il did. James, she an
swered quietly.
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would be! How much younger the
down in the mouth ones who enjoy
brooding over their sorrows would
looki
There are varieties of smiles. There,
for instance, is the company smile, a
humbug seen through at a glance. $50
glad you camel What a pretty little
boy! Do bring him again." says the
company smile girl. Then she shuts
the door, drops her company smile like
a mask and says to her own small
brother: Get out of my way, you
little nuisancei don't see what
young ones are made for anyway
But worst of all is the primpy SMILE
the affectedly refined smirk of the
prunes, propriety, prisms woman. She
Fuckers her mouth to make it look
small and ladyli<e, then stretches her
upper lip ever so family toward her
cheeks. The primpy smile is even
more affected than the other girls
company giggle. Better the broad
grin.
Finally, my beloved "sisteren,' we
use precisely the same muscles in
smiling that we do in weeping, but
there's all the difference in the world.
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find some course open to women of
my age?'' writes one mother who evil
IDENTIFY realizes her lack of mental at
tainments.
81 am very awkward and self con-
scious,' writes another unfortunate,
land as my husband wishes me to go
out great deal with him, this makes
me very uncomfortable. What shall 1
do to overcome this ?"
And so forth and so on.
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The woman of forty-f1ve who has not
opened a book for years will find it
mighty hard to begin course of heavy
reading all at once.
AS for the timid woman who is self
conscious, that is no doubt because she
is not intimate terms with her own
self. She has not taken herself in hand
from the first week of her married life,
making herself her most severe critic
and counting every week lost that did
not improve her physically and men
tally.
The woman who is eager and ambi-
tious need never fear being awkward or
4 fortune teller for en- amusement.
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laundering that a blouse does. for
every one knows a muslin waist can
sometimes only be worn once in warm
weather.
These dresses are not hard to make,
and 1 advise every one to have couple
of them this summer. Now is the time.
Get out your sewing materials and a
good pattern.
And be sure you cut your skirt wide
enough 1t can't be too full.
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The subject of children brings me
naturally to that of Teddy bears Have
you ever seen anything like the vogue
of these little beasties, particularly the
polar Teddies?
Even the dolls must have their Ted
dies nowadays and you see small girls
wheeling fat dollies that clasp lovingly
a tiny bear
The latest, however, are Teddy bear
fur sets for children made of the same
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general lack OF
formality. 1t is
up to the woman
to encourage the
right sort of peo-
pie to drop in of
an evening and
to cultivate mar
ried couples who
are jolly. clever
and willing to
give a good time
to their friends.
The woman who
takes her hus-
band around and
gives him a good
time stands little
chance of losing
him. 1t is the
wife who kaeDS
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cream plush ma
terial which con-
stituteS the bears
skin.
The guimpe
dress is here to
stay, and there is
a reason for it.
1t is ideal for
traveIin g pur-
poses and ordi-
nary wear, COM
bining as it does
the GOODNESS of
the shirt waist
with a m ch
more dressy APP
pearance.
Then, too, it
does not require
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IMPRESSIVE

well, Bertha. 1 hear you met Mr..
Cooke yesterday Did you like him?"
do you know, dear, he made an inn
preston upon me that nothing will OBJ
literate.'' Really How-what did he
say?' 1T wasn't what he said. 1t was
what he did He split a cup of tea over
my new white silk dressi''
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comes only too apparent even to him.
They are well read, clever and self
possessed. The woman he married as
a youth is still exactly where she was
then. raw and uniformed in mind as
well as in person. Her principal gift,
youth, has departed, and she has not
been wise enough to supply herself
with other attractions in its place.
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Nor are these cases confined to
families who rise from obscurity to
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-08
BELGIAN woMEN-

A traveller with good eyes may see in
a single summer day in Belgium enough
to make him wonder what are really
the boundaries of 'woman's sphere
At 5 o'clock in the morning he may
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-08

" THINK one of the most pitiful
sights is that of a wife who is
q no longer a companion to her
n husband. One sees that sort of
thing every day and wonders at the
cause.
OF course often the husband is to
blame. He likes to go out with men
friends who are not always ultra re-
fined in their tastes and amusementS,
and his wife is left to NOPE at home.
But, you will excuse my saying so, I
think the fault is the woman's in nine
cases out of ten. While some men are
drunkards and others have bad quail
ties which no marriage on earth could
counterfeit. the average man means
well enough and thinks everything his
wife does is perfect and fascinating at
first. That he does not continue to do
so is because any one tires of the same
old thing over and over again. Most
women care very little for originality.
They are creatures of routine, endur-
ing the same plan of life over and over
again without perhaps desiring a
change for years. Men are different.
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The American man works harder
than any other man in the world. He
comes home too tired to plan anything
in the nature of amusement, but if aft
er a duh dinner he finds a dulIer even
ing before him he feels something is
missing which he ought to have, and
he goes out with the half formed idea
of trying to find it.
The wise woman realizes that it is
up to her to provide the social ele-
ment. By social | don't mean those
CHASTITY affairs at which every one is
overdressed and bored to death. but
jolly little evenings where dress suits
arS not necessary and there are plenty
of congenial people. laughter and a
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Note the smiles in the picture. Some
of these ladies smile with mouth and
eyes. too, defying both schools of the
beauty doctors. A wonderfully bright,
sweet, childlike smile is that of Vir-
ginia Earle. The noted stage beauty
here looks like a little girl who is
playing a prank on somebody and
stands of to see the effect of her joke.
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~
Camille CLIFFORD
I'M OOK pleasant says the photog-
rapher. You attempt it; you
put on the smile of a wooden
image. You have fine teeth.
and perhaps you show them ever so
slightly 1t is dangerous to be pho
tographed showing ones teeth, even in
a smiie-for anybody except President
Roosevelt. that is, or ladies of the
stage who know how to do the act.
Try 1t, gentle private citizen girl. and
II you ever had any conceit of your
beauty you will be disenchanted. In
nine cases out of ten the face looks all
teeth, these seeming large and long
enough for horse to masticate oats
WITH Meanwhile the smile you have
conJured to order for the photograph
er, which you fondly imagine was
caught and fixed in a bright, magnetic
expression just as you sent it vibrat-
ing across your countenance. has been
transmitted instead into a fixed, awful
grin encircling a chasmlil1e abyss. 1
don't know why this is thus when the
private citizen tries to smile in a
photograph. but such is the fact
Then there are the beauty doctors,
who tell you how to smile. at least,
how not to- Some of them say you
must not smile with your mouth, be-
cause after you get the habit it pro-
duces wrinkles around the lips and
chin Smile with your eyes. says this
school of beauty thinkers. Others say,
Don't smile with your eyes-not on
your life-for that makes wrinkles.
What is left? Either don't smile at
all, or smile with your insides. You
pays your money and you takes your
choice.
But there are women who can open
their lips in smile that exhibits the
teeth and look neither horse toothed
nor yet like a wooden tobacco sign.
Here are some of them, whose smiles
the picture snapper has caught. They
all happen to be women of the stage.
Two of them are French, Anna Held
and Nine. Emma Calve, the others
Americans.
Note the difference between the
American and the F'renchwoman's
smile The American smile, while
plainly made up to be snapshotted. is
more the innocent expression of a
roguish girl, bent on some harmless,
teasing mischief. The Frenchwoman's
smile, on the other hand, suggests an
undefinable, unfathomable depth of
deviltry. At the same time-odd it is.
but fact-the Frenchwoman is really
not a whit wickeder than her Ameri- |
can sister, and neither one of them is
guilty of badness to any great extent.
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Note the smiles in the picture. Some
of these ladies smile with mouth and /
eyes. too, defying both schools of the !
beauty doctors. A wonderfully bright, |
sweet, chiIdlike smile is that of Vir-
ginia Earle. The noted stage beauty |
here looks like a little girl who is
playing a prank on somebody and |
stands off to see the effect of her joke !
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does not require
the continual
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-29
THE GUEST
At BANQUET

OAKLAND, Jan. 2S.-A banquet and
reception in honor of Ex-Governor
George c. Pardee's return to this city
was given this evening at the Pied
mont Springs Club House by the Ala
media County Medical Association. of
which he is a member. Nearly sixty
of the profession were in attendance
and the gathering was marked by a
spirit of reunion and fellowship
throughout.
Dr. Daniel Crosby of Fruitvale, presi-
dent of the organization, acted as
toastmaster. and in behalf of the asso-
citation gave an address of welcome to
the distinguished guest. DR.. Pardee
replied at some length, telling of his
relief at getting home once more where
he could take long vacation before
resuming active duties again.
Among others who added to the
interest of the occasion by their re-
marks were DR. II. Rowell, DR.. S. II.
Buteau, DIR. L. P. Adams and DR..
Charles A Dukes. As secretary of the
association, the affair was managed
by DR.. Dukes and much of the success
of the evening was due to him.