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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24

are clever, full
of individuality
a d artis tic .
They are the
truest friends
in the world,
and here is the
most wonderful
thing of all
they can actu-
ally have a per-
fectly lovely
time without
any men around.
Your New York
girl couldn't do
that to save
her soul
Yes, ma'am,
If you come up
and join the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24

rem, the famous actress. As a rule the
king and lesser royalties attend the
Derby, but Queen Alexandra usually
taboos it. This year was no exception
and altogether this race was a dis
appointment for the prize was carrie,
off by an American. garden party
at Windsor palace was the social
grand finale of the Derby weeks festivl
ties. During the summer there are
many fashionable race meetings, among
them being those at Goodwood. DON
caster. Newmarket and Leopardstown
where recently royalty put in an ap-
spearance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24

Lawn tennis, golf, croquet, archery.
fencing. rowing, punting, riding, driv-
ing, shooting, ladies' cricket. motoring
and ballooning are all sports in which
Englishwomen take a deep interest and
excel. County fairs enlist the interest
of every suburban woman, many of the
most highly placed ladies in England
competing at them for prizes. Recent
ly the Duchess of Devonshire got a
prize for her Berkshire pigs and was
more tickled over it than by all the
praise her magnificent fancy dress ball
elected. Lady Katherine Pilkington.
Lady Castlereagh and Lady Hutton are
all ardent dog fanciers and take a per-
sonal interest in their famous ken
nels. Lady Llangattock, Lady de Grey
and Lady Mary Sackville are among
the motoring zealots and may always
be seen at motor gymkhanas or races.
When one considers how all classes,
old and young alike, take an active
form in every kind of active outdoor
sport, it Is no wonder that English
women are strong. healthy and beauti-
full. One of the most hopeful signs of
the times is the interest with which
American women are taking up open
air sport. JANE DELBY BROWN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24

where 1 am, you will find just one
mantle host. He doesn't count
either, because he is not visible, as
he is very busy writing a wonderful
book on Why Must We Breathe?" or
some equally abstruse subject. The
man of the house is professor so
learned he is absentminded and impa-
tient of ordinary conversation, so we
don't miss it much when he does dis
appear.
There are two women artists. One
would be very pretty girl if she didn't
forswear up to date gowns. She affects
the artistic" in clothes. 1 fancy you
know what that means. They go out
and sit on the rocks trying to catch the
effect of the surf as it breaks against
them. The pretty girls painting has
the waves looking like a succession of
ice cream sodas. Dear me! 1 wish
some one would tell that girl that her
own face is more artistic than anything
she can draw and that she is absolutely
spelling its effect by wearing that
tacky little duck sailor with the turned
up wrinkled brim.
But there! She's happy, so why need
we interfere?
There are two women with children
here-such well brought up little mites
Children are not left as much to serv-
ants in Massachusetts, as they are in
New York Little Winthrop at eight
years of age distances most boys of
ten He is already a reasoning little
man. Instead of reading fairy stories
he has nature books, which amount
TO the same thing, says his mother, and
teach the child something instead of
ming his mind with trash. She has all
OF 'Wlnthrop's education planned out
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ting things together), for I just can't
seem to weld his half a dozen or more
relative clauses into anything resem-
bling the English language.
Bad cess to him,
How on earth did he ever learn how
to do twill some one tell me?
Ah-hI The pretty girl has at length
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24

This season the weather during the
three days of the regatta was very bad.
After Henley society's next popular
outdoor fete is at the Cowes yacht
races. although there are a number Of
smaller regattas similar to that of
Henley The king and queen and all
the royal family usually take part in
the festivities at Cowes, where all aris-
tocratic England is present. The Duke
of Leeds. whose duchess is a sister of
the sporting Lord Durham, is the lead
ing spirit in the royal yacht squadron's
maneuvers. AS vice president of the
club he has to make all the arrange
ments for the event. To name the
yachtswomen of England would be to
mention all of polite society sufficiently
we'll endowed with this worlds goods
to own a boat. Among the best known
is the beautiful Warehouses of Lon
donderry, who is devoted to all aquatic
sport and is an adept at punting, row.
ing and all forms of sailing. At Mount
Stewart, her country place in Ireland,
she is frequently to be seen boating on
the picturesque river Lough- The
marchioness is quite capable of navigat-
ing her husbands handsome steam
yacht, the Metuenda, in seamanlike
manner The Countess of Annersley IL
another plucky sailor. She can manipu
late a steam yacht quite as successfully
as small boat. Lady Ernestine Hunt
is a certificated yachtswoman and can
navigate her craft as well as the most
seasoned old salt Queen Alexandra, a.
becomes the sea kings daughter" Is q
splendid sailor: so. too, are all her
daughters. American women are be-
ginning to figure conspicuously as an
tertainers during Cowes week, Mrs.
George Gould being the most popular:
also Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt, Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Jr. and Mrs. Howard
Gould have been conspicuous figures at
the Cowes races.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24

1 say improving their minds because
1 am sure no one reads such trash as l
do. During the hot months I can't
even stand the pure english of the
twenty-five cent magazine. but must in
dulge in something less costly, but more
frothy.
= y
By the way, there is such a pretty
girl here on the sand as I write this.
She is propped up against a Harvard
pillow and is reading Henry James.
She hasn't knitted her eyebrows for a
whole half hour. Can it be that she
understands him?
l have tried three times in my young
life to read this celebrated author and,
my word, as the English say, I have
always retired bitterly Inundated by
the feeling that there must be a screw
loose III my thinka forum (excuse a new
word but 1 mean my faculty for put
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24

truth forces itself on meas a rule they
don't much care how they look
They like sensible clothes, with solid
heels that come down hard, and they
don't approve of the marcel wave.
They're the incest women in the world
to know if you respect their prejudices
and abstain from shocking them. Thew
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24

feetly matched coach horses are ex-
tremely hard to get and high priced
when found. There are very few Eng
ishwomen who can tool a coach, but
they are always conspicuous figures on
the boxes when run is made into the
country from the popular starting place
in Hyde park. The Earl and Countess
of Arran, Lord and Lady Ludlow and
Viscount and Niscountess Hampton
were among those who took the most
recent run. Lord Desborough, who is
president of the coaching club, is. with
Lady Desborough. one of the most ar
dent devotees of this sport.
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~ NE of the most admira BILE
things about the big. broad
shouldered rosy checked Eng
hshwoman of the upper class
is her love of open air sport. With a
climate about the worst in the world for
such recreations. from April until No
vember she drifts from garden party to
picnic. from race meeting to regatta,
from shooting to fishing. Americans
visiting Great Britain for the first time
are openly amazed at the public's disre-
gard for weather conditions. A damp.
dark day is with the English no reason
for calling off an, open air festivity or
even for donning somber garments.
Even drizzle of rain will not send
people home.
The garden party is the favorite form
of entertainment among fashionable
English folk This is partly due to the
fact that most of their entertaining is
done in the summer and in the country.
where the possibilities of the wonderful
parklike grounds are too fascinating to
be neglected. In London there are very
few houses that have gardens ample
enough for this form of hospitality.
One of the exceptions is Chatsworth
House. at which the Duchess of Devon
shire frequently gives outdoor fetes.
Apsley House, the London home of the
Duchess of Wellington, is also well
adapted to this purpose, and one of the
largest parties of the present season
was recently given there. The Prin-
cess of Wales has very fine gardens at
Marlborough House and recently gave
a large garden party there for the bene-
fit of the League of Mercy, of which
she is lady president. The Duchess of
Albany has also adopted the al fresco
form of entertaining to raise money for
a popular charity. She occupies Clare
mont, the historic home of the famous
Lord Give. and on it's ample lawns
was presented recently one of those pop
ular diversions called Pageant This
one was called the ''Masque of Life"
Mr.. Louis N. Parker who provided the
words and music for the Bury St. Ed
munds and other pageants, was it's au-
thor. 1t gave the various ladies of title
an opportunity to personate the hero
ines of English history. These pag-
eants are really fad at present in Eng
lish society, since they combine the
charm of the garden party with those
of amateur theatricals and in form
which fatters national and family
pride Usually the pageant is given at
some historic place and represents some
phase of old English or family history.
% %
Sandwiched in between it's agreeable
garden parties English society has nu-
merous other outdoor diversions, not
the least absorbing of which are the
races In England every one attends
them, and, alas. many of the fairest
and most exalted ladies venture on the
outcome. One of the most famous race
meetings is the Derby, so called because
it was established near his home by an
earl of Derby-the one, by the way who
married one of the beautiful Cummings
and had for his second wife Nellie Far
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24

Coaching is a pastime INDUCED in by
the few, the Four-in-hand Driving club
being the fashionable organizat ton
which is devoted to this sport. Coach
ing is an expensive pastime, as per-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24
rrving TO catch the effect of the surf.

bathing is out of the question, for me at
least.
lie on the sand by the hour reading
and resting, while the others are busy
making Christmas presents or improv-
ing their minds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24
E%H HE nervous woman abounds in
Massachusetts,.
n1L1

=
Massachusetts,.
And why not? The Massa-
chusetts woman thinks more
of her brain than of her body, with the
inevitable result
have to laugh when I hear foreign
ers speak of the American girl as if she
were only one type, when in reality she
is a dozen totally different girls.
Take the southern and the western
girl, for instance. Can any two persons
be more totally opposite?
The southern belle has her own little
ideas as to what is and what is not
''propah." She moves with the grace
and dignity of a minuet. You can't
make a southern girl nervous or fretful
if you try. She is sweet as honey, with
fascinating little ways, but she has not
the dash and go either in her clothes or
in her person that characterize the
New York or the western girl. She
does not approve of them when you
come down to it, but thinks them rath-
er loud
The western girl-oh, me; oh. my She
is progressive young woman. She
takes notice all the time and between
times, as the Irishman would say She
is the most capable young person we
have. Nothing feazes her. Put her in
any SITUATION. ana she VIII ma a way
out. She makes the finest business wo-
man possible and when she marries
she storms social heights with the same
energy she puts into everything.
If she is a bit aggressive. that's only
because she is a natural born hustler
and hates to see things go slow.
The New York girl is sophisticated to
her pink finger tips. She has Travelled
most everywhere and knows what to do
on every occasion If she hasn't trav-
eled, then she has kept her ears and
eyes open and absorbed all she could
on every occasion. She hasn't wasted
any time on Greek or Latin, nor. if the
truth were to be told, can she always
spell, but she knows how to wear her
clothes SO that they show every good
point she has. There may be homelv
girls in New York, but you never no
tice their faces. It's the way thew
wear their hair, it's their figures it's
the wonderful dip and angles of their
hats and the smart flare to their sleeves
and skirts. which attract your eve.
A lace veil drawn bewitchingly over
a plain face is far more attractive than
a dragged chiffon one dropping I'M
gracefully from the unmodish miIli-
merry of a beauty, and the New York
girl knows this.
But the Boston girl scorns such arti-
fees. 1 am staying right here on the
north shore 7 am surrounded bv any
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24

The smooth flowing Thames, with its
beautiful scenery, has been the inspira-
ton for aquatic sport ever since the
water loving Danes and Normans came
to England. The great interuniversity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24

now and then to a dinner or for a sail
on the deep blue waters. These same
dark blue waters are so cold that sea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24

But the Boston girl scorns such artf-
fees. 1 am staying right here on the
north shore. am surrounded by any
lumber of Back Bay girls, and the sad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-24

Fox hunting is a popular outdoo~
pastime for rEen and women. Tn
Dukes of Beaufort and Bucciergh. the
of Waterford a-d ZetlanG.
the Earls of Marlborough, Eglinton.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-30
TRAINED NURSES FOR PETS.

A London paper says that nurses
skilled in the diseases of cats and dogs
can obtain regular employment at $40
a week for looking after sick prize and
pedigree pets. There is training
school for animals nurses in Pimllco.
A certificate is granted to apt pupils
after six months experience in the care
of sick creatures Of all sorts, cats and
dogs particularly. Women make much
better kennel nurses than men do, and
there is a growing demand, especially
in big country houses, for the services
of women able skillfully to carry out
a veterinary surgeons treatment. One
successful dogs nurse holds the full
certificate of a well known London
hospital, but she prefers to devote her
nursing talents to CANNES rather than
to humans.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-30
AN ODD FUR CHEST.

A prominent Manayunk business
man, says the Philadelphia Record
widely known as an adept in the art
of securing bargains, recently pur-
chased a fine set of sable furs for his
intended bride. The lady was highly
pleased with the articles of warmth
and adornment, but, being bothered
with moths in her home. requested
her fiance to secure a suitable box in
which to keep the furs so they would
not be damaged. After visiting all the
lumber yards and cabinetmakers in the
ward to get the lowest cost of a suit
able case, he finally decided on the pur-
chase of a slightly damaged cedar
outer case made for an infants coffin
by an undertaken in Green lane. He
got the undertaken to put hinges and
a lock on the case and slipped it over
to his lady love under cover of dark
ness. In talking about the case he
claimed he got it very cheap, and as
long as the girl was ignorant of what
It was first intended for it would be
folly to enlighten her.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-30
PLAIN WRITING LEAGUE.

It is a point of honor for anyone who
is anybody in France to sign illegibly.
But the worm who has to decfpher
hieroglyphics is turning at last, &C
cording to the London Telegraph.
There has been formed League of
Protest against all illegible hand
writings and signatures, chiefly those
of government officials" The motto of
the new society is curious: ct be-
hooves only person who is infirm or
one who does not know his own father,
to sign illegibly." Why should an I'M
wise child who does not know his own
father sign illegibly? The league does
not answer the conundrum. BY the
way, it is impossible to decipher the
name of the gentleman, or perhaps
lady, who signs the leagues manifesto.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-30
MOUNTAINEERS WERE NOT
STRONG.

From the Simmenthal region of the
Canton Berne comes a story which
shows that in Switzerland rusticity and
good physique do not necessarily go
together. The district is famous
throughout the Alps for its fine, large
breed of cattle and its brand of milk
both of which are highly valued. It
is otherwise with the human popula-
ton. They are spoken of as coffee
faced and fat chested. At the last
military draft eighteen young Simmer
thai mountaineers were called up, and
of these all but four were rejected.
This result is said to be not at all un-
common in these Swiss valleys, where
cattle and milk are the main sources
of income The peasant feeds himself
too much on the latter and grudges
himself the former.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-30
KING ED IN LUCK.

The English have bought some Amer
lean flour made in Wichita, and Henry
Allen in the Wichita Beacon says: ut
is gratifying to know that King Ed
ward is enjoying some of our splendid
advantages; to know that the King of
England, after sitting all day on a hard
throne, may come home at night, hang
his crown on the back porch and go in
to a nice batch of hot biscuits made by
gratifying to realize that the little chill
dren at Windsor castle are wearing the
brand of flour sacks that our own little
children are wearing here in Wichita -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-30

Official Washington is agog because
Justice oliver Wendell Holmes does
not keep a carriage. The supreme
judge makes his way to business by
grace of the Metropolitan Traction
Company. Sometimes, perhaps, he
hangs on a strap. And Mrs. Justice
Holmes. when she goes to make her
social calls, drives in a hired hanson
cab. Capital society rather fancies a
man of that name and position, a man
so closely related to the author of 1.-The
Wonderful One-Horse Shay" should
keep some sort of a vehicle for senti-
ments sake
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-30
METHODS OF CAPITAL PUNISH.
MENT.

What is the most common instru-
nlent for carrying out the death SEN
tence? It appear to be the guillotine,
which is employed publicly in France,
Belgium, Denmark, Hanover and two
cantons of Switzerland, and privately
In Bavaria, Saxony and also in two
cantons of Switzerland. The gallows
comes next, says the Chicago News,
and is favored publicly in Austria,
Portugal and Russia, and privately in
Great Britain and the United States.
Death by the sword obtains in fifteen
oantons of Switzerland, in China and
Russia publicly, and in Prussia pri-
vately. Ecuador, Oldenburg and Rus
STA have adopted the musket, all pub
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-30
GUARDING BANK OF ENGLAND

The Bank of England Rife Volunteer
primarily for the defense of the bank
premises, was by an order of the Brit
ish war office recently disbandc1, as
the corps, which was maintained at the
expense of the bank authorities, was
not considered necessary. At night the
bank premises are protected by a mill
itary guard. The corps has been under
the command of Captain H. S. Inman
for nearly six years, and out of the
total strength of ninety-five officers
and men ninety-two made themselves
efficient. This was the only single COM
pany corps in Great Britain
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-30

George Bernard shaw is a great lover
of music. He was invited by friend
Italy. Throughout the program he sat
with stony look on his face The
friend, to draw little praise from him,
said: Mr. Shaw, these men have been
playing together for twelve years"
Twelve years." said the other, in an
tncredulous voice. Surely, we've been
here longer than that"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-30
SPORADIC FICTION.

(Franklin P. Adams. in Life.)
Why not a poem as they treat
The stories in the magazines?
"Eustacia's lips were very sweet,
He stopped to''-and here intervenes
A notwithstanding one
Where one may learn the things that
he,
The noble hero, had begun.
Continuation on Page 80
Page 3-oh, here it is-no, here
Kiss them. Eustacia hung her head;
Whereat he said, Eustacia, dear
And sweetly low Eustacia said:
Continued on Page 10
Here. just between the corset ad
And that of Smithers' Canderine.
(Eustacia, sweet, you drive me mad.)
Z" No. no, not that, But let me tell
You why / scorn your ardent kiss
Not that L do not love you well;
No, Archibald, the reasons this:
Continued on Page 24.)
Turn, turn, my leaves, and let me
learn
Eustacia's fate; pine for more;
oh, turn and turn and turn and turn!
=" Because-and yet 1 ought not say
The wherefore of my SUDDEN whim.'
Here Archibald looked at Eusta-
Cha and Eustacia looked at him.
Because continued she, my head -
I never knew Eustacia's fate,
I never knew what 'Stacia said.
Continued on Page SD
SoOth, in these days of graft and greed
Is it not hard enough to read
At all? Why then the story scatter
Throughout "pure advertising matter" 2
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-30
THE BALLAD OF THE ANGEL.

BY Theodosia Garrison.
who is it knocking in the night,
That fain would enter in?'
''The ghost of Lost Delight am I,
The sin you would not sin,
Who comes to look in your two eyes
And see what might have been"
''Oh, long ago and long ago
1 cast you forff1, he said,
''For that your eyes were all too blue,
Your laughing mouth too red,
And my torn soul was tangled in
The tresses of your head"
.-Now mind you with what bitter words
You cast me forth from you?"
81 babe Sou back to that fair hell
From whence your breath you drew,
And with great blows / broke my heart
Lest it might follow, too.
Yea, from the grasp of your white hands
I freed my hands that day,
And have l not climbed near to God
AS these his henchmen may?"
e.ssaa saan, ah, man! twas my two hands
led you all the way"
| my eyes from your two eyes
L they might see Alright"
think you twas a star tnat LED
ir feet from height to height?
1T was the flame of my two eyes
That drew you through the night"
With trembling hands he threw the door,
Then fell upon his knee.
.-Ah, armed vision cloaked in light,
Why do you honor me?"
.4The Angel of your Strength am L
Who was your SIM quoth she
HFor that you slew me long ago,
My hands have raised you high;
For that you closed my eyes-my eyes
Are lights to lead you by
And it's my touch shall swing the gates
Of Heaven when you die!'
From The Smart Set (June).
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-30

According to Singapore newspaper
excerpt forwarded by Consul General
D. F. WILDER, rubber planting is being
extended in that part of the world. In
Sumatra some 10000 acres have been
located for planting. Ceylon is active,
and several Englishmen have secured
$4,000 acres in the state of Johore, In
dia. for rubber estates