The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-27

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the front with broadcloth buttons and
buttonholes in groups of three. and
sleeves. The yoke and collar were of
tucked net with a plated jabot.
The funniest feature of society"
just now. (and society is always so
funny is the contrasts to be seen in
hair dressing. The women are chang
ing the fashion of doing their hair,
and as usual the transition period pre-
sents an amusing mixture of freak
coiffures. 1t is difficult TO say which
looks the oldest, the old way or the
new way. At a dance IN Topeka last
week there We're girls wearing rats
as big as mattresses under switches
and puffs, and others with no rats at
all Some had their HAIR pulled up
tightly in the back and piled on top
of their heads. and others brushed
their front hair back plainly and wore
a big COB on the nape of the neck.
One girl wore no less than eighteen
puffs and another had just three.
There were number of Psyche knots
but no two girls wore them in just
the same place Some were on a level
with the nose, some higher and others
lower. One girl wore Grecian
bandeaux, her front hair parted and
drawn severely down over her tenn
pies, with a Dig PSycne KNOT III the
back. And the reason this variety
was funny was that none of these
styles was chosen by the girl who
affected it because it was becoming
but because she had seen some body
else wear her hair So In three months
time all different styles will have
given place to one prevailing mode of
hair dressing on which, the transition
period over, the radicals, who take up
with every new fad and carry it to
%sx~.,e II,
adopt a change tardily and reluctant
ly, will have compromised. For it is
only in the transition period that the
average society function offers any
variety in the way of fashions. AT
other times every woman dresses eX-
actly like every other woman.
The men, too, are trying out some new
ways of doing their hair, and the
pompadour affected by the Rah-Rah
boys for the past year or so is making
its way into older and more dignified
circles A good many chaps are
brushing their hair straight back
from their foreheads and plastering it
down like John c. Calhoun, or some
body. A Chicago man at the dance
with his hair in this fashion was talk
ing to a girl wearing bangs and that
was a contrast which excited some
comment. -. 1t takes more courage
to be a month ahead of the fashion
than to be a year behind it. The
pioneer who blazes the way for a new
mode, in a small town, is a martyr to
adopt a new fashion in hair dressing
are. as a rule, the married. 1t is, gen
orally, a sign q mode is becoming
passe, when the married women take it
up. Usually you can tell married
woman by her hair and a married
man by his shoes. which to use an old
fashioned expression fit his feet,
rather than his eye.
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The Phi Debts of K U. who come to
Topeka for the Drake Washburn game
Saturday will be entertained by the
Delta Phis of Washburn at their chap
ter house on College avenue
Mrs j. L. Shellabarger, who has re-
turned to Topeka from California
where she spent the past year, and will
spend the winter with her daughter.
Mrs. William Macferran of Topeka and
Mrs. Albert H. Grief of Kansas City,
will be the guest of honor at recep-
ton at the County club Saturday
afternoon from three to SIX O'Clock,
Mrs Macferran and Miss Ida Mac
ferran hostesses. Mrs. Grief is expect
ed Saturday for the reception and to
spend Sunday with Mrs Macferran and
Mrs. Shellabarger-
Miss Gladys Guild will give a Hal
tOWe6n party LOT SOilfC VI ilCI SCIOOl
friends Saturday evening at her home.
| 513 Topeka avenue
X x \
The students of the College of the
Sisters of Bethany will have their an
nuaI Halloween frolic Saturday night.
X X y
Mr. and Mrs B. D.. Lederman have
! issued invitations for a phantom party
Saturday night for their niece, Miss
Anna Weiskirch. at the Weiskirch
home in Potwin Place
Y
The Junior Atlantean club will meet
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. E. A
] Taylor 1915 Western avenue
| X
The West Side Forestry club will
meet Thursday Afternoon with Mrs D.
H. Forbes, 703 Polk street, instead OF
1 with Mrs. w. A. Johnston
| X X
The Beta sorority of Washburn has
extended 200 Invitations for g reception
| Thursday afternoon at the chapter
house on College Hill in compliment to
the pledges. The patronesses. MIS- T.