The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-22

Goodwin, Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Green
wood, Mr. and Mrs Geo. w: Hackney,
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hackney, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Hobart. Mr.. and Mrs.
]. L. King, Mr. and Mrs. John Klein
hans, Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Klingaman,
Mr. and Mrs. G. NJ. Minney, Mr.. H. S.
Morgan. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Nichols,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Pribble, Mr.. and
Mrs, Mark Putnam, Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Price, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Quinton, Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Roehr. Mr.. and Mrs.
w. F. Roehr, DIR. and Mrs. L. A. Ry-
DER. Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Rodgers, DR..
and Mrs. P H schoile, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. L. Scott. Mr.. and Mrs. Clement
Smith. Mr.. and Mrs. F. A: Snow, Dr.
and Mrs. J. II. Solecki, Mr.. and Mrs.
o. P. Updegraff, Mr.. and Mrs. A. T.
Waggoner. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Waters,
Mr.. and Mrs B. r. Wheeler, Mr.. and
Mrs: w w Wikidal,, Miss Karolyn B.
Whittelsey.
A good looking and wen preserved
woman past 40 was asked how she re-
tanned her youth. Il attribute it to two
things, she replied. I'VE have made it
a rule for many years to give no Christ
mas presents, and we never entertain
company over night
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Some people are poking fun at DR..
Eva Harding because she wants the
legislature to pass a law compelling the
girls in the public schools to wear uni
forms. The idea is a good one and it
is hard to see how people who take
anti-spitting and anti-fraternity laws
seriously can laugh at this one which
would DO more to lessen the danger of
tuberculosis and bring to a reality the
irideScent dream of social equality in
the public school, than either of the
aforementioned legislative reforms. DR..
Harding's contention that the high
school girls dress improperly both from
the hygienic and the ethical standpoint
is indisputable. Take off their long.
:; II Il
give them a chance to breathe from the
diaphragm and the danger of tubercu-
losis will be removed. All the anti-spit7
ting laws in the world won't save peO-
pie who don't breathe properly" DR..
Harding wants the public school girls
uniformed in comfortable b1ouSes with
rundown collars, knickerbockers, short
skirts at least three inches from the
floor. and regulation, common sense
shoes. She wants the ban put on cor
sets and silk petticoats and thinks that
school girls should be required to adopt
a simple style OF hair dressing. The
fashionable coiffures which high school
girls copy from worldlSs Y Women waste
as much of their Tim as. the frats and
SororitieS. - @$
It takes from half an hour to an hour
for a CRITIC wave, cnrl and puff her
hair, adjust rats and switches and
combs and ribbons. One, sees high
school girls of 16 and II dressed like
matrons of go. One Topeka high school
girl wears four diamond rings to school,
DR. Harding maintains that the anti
fraternity law has proven unsuccessful
and believes that the evils at which it
aimed would be reached to a consid-
erable extent by the reform she pro-
poses There will always be social lines
drawn by the children as long as they
are drawn by their elders and it is not
at school nor in the frats nor sorori-
ties that the girls and boys learn to be
silly little snobs, but in their own homes
where it is taught them from infancy
But the economical differences which
are at the base of all our social dis
tinctions need not be emphasized in the
public schools by the clothes which the
pupils wear. No more effective means
of putting the high school girls on an
equality in the school room, could be
imagined than DR.. Harding's scheme for
uniforming them that the contrasts
of dress and accoutrement which
cause so much heart burning, jealousy
and discomfort in the feminine mind
could be dispensed with, at least during
their school days.
The shallow yoke is favorite fea
ture of the dressy waist. The waist
shown in the illustration was made of
blue satin. 1t was mounted on a lin
ing and had a round yoke of Irish
point lace which was outlined with