The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-02

true not only of the general types, but
of the. smaller details. As noted an
authority as Mrs. Osborn, the leading
New York costume designer, makes
strong plea for the personal note in
dressing. In the September Delineator
she says: Have the dress built for
you and do not accept any feature of
it simply because 1t is fashionable.
The stupidity of adopting a thing
merely because it originated II Paris,
is beyond belief to sane mind. For
example the short Sleeve-I went over
in the early spring to find the French
women in the art of enveloping their
arms for summer in the longest sleeves
that one can imagine. crossed in ell
bow sleeves and came back in them.
Most of the American dressmakers
rushed hack to this country full of
| the idea that they had found some
thing new Now certainly there is
| nothing new in the long sleeve.
Pharaoh's daughter probably wore it
and it was so imbecile to attempt to
force it on the American public right
| in the teeth of our long hot summer.
disregarded it, much to the. consterna-
! ton of those women who think It
heresy to go against the sayso OF
Paris ~lae -....
A girl went to the matinee the other
| day wearing an enormous hat held on
with fiye-count them-five hat pins.
The curtain went up just as she was
| seated and she began pulling frant1-
| cally at the pins. But although they
had heads as big as cantaloupes she
couldn't find them. They were hidden
under the trimming, tangled in her
| hair net and buried in her rat. The
women sitting near became Interested,
J forgot to look at the stage and leaned
over to proffer assistance. Finally,
with four women clawing for them the
pins were extracted and the hat re-
moved, but of course after such heroic
| measures net and puffs came with 1t,
| the pompadour was disarranged so that
| the rats showed through, hair pins
were dropping and the elaborate colt
fure was wreck. By the time it was
rearranged and put in order again
with the help of her neighbors. and
| the hat pins thrust back into the hat
the first act was half over.
Miss Mary MacLennan, Miss Hen
rietta Alexander and Miss Alice Will
lard will go to Atchison this evening
| for weekend house party which MISS
Helen Hackney is giving for Miss May
| Watts of Toledo, Ohio. who is visiting
her Miss Edna Hopkins and Miss
Katharine Dolman will go to Atchison
from Lawrence, where they ara
students at the University, to join the
party. Among the entertainments to
| be given in honor of the visitors are
dinner tonight and a dance Saturday
night.
|
Mr. and Mrs Frank c. Beck, 1924
Harrison street, will give a family din
ner this evening in compliment to Miss
| Eta Beck and Mr.. Victor Martin of
| Chicago whose wedding will be an
event Of next week.
Mr. and Mrs c. H. Samson will give
picnic and barbecue at the Samson
ranch tomorrow for the members OF
the Minerva club and their husbands.
X
One of the prettiest of the new fan
mel waist models is a tucked shirt with
a body and sleeves in one. Another
has a shallow yoke and groups of
tucks It is worn with the Partisan
two button collar that fastens on line
|, with the coat closing of the waist. A
third is severely tailored like a mans
shirt
subscription dance will be given by
| some of the high school set at Hud-
sons Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Fred W. Knapp, S15 Lincoln
{ street, entertained the following guests
{ Thursday afternoon: Mrs. ". Whitak-
err. Mrs. Joseph Waidleich, Mrs. Ernest
Tucker, Mrs. R. L. Gamble. Mrs
George H. Hoyes, Mrs. George Boone
( Mrs. E. c. Sinner Mrs. Dora E. Sinner
I Mrs Andrew Jack and Mrs. George
Hancock, Miss Smith.
y y
Mr.. and Mrs. v. Cross entertained al
( dinner Thursday evening for Miss Lena
Buff who leaves soon for Los Angeles
Cal Those present were: Miss Kath-
eryn Often, Mrs. Chas. Steinberg, Miss
( Elsa Buff, Miss Edyth Hossfeld, Miss
ona May Miller and Miss Lena Buff.
X X
Miss Mabel Foster and Mr.. Fred
( Pasho were married Wednesday even
< | ing at the home of her aunt, Mrs. ]. "A
Jones, 614 Tyler street The Rev. DR.
F. N. Lynch performed the ceremony
Z The bride wore a travelling suit o
< brown broadcloth and they left imme
81 diately for a short wedding trip A
: home in Topeka where Mr.. Pasho 4
with the Edison company. The mar
lite n their friaud