The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-12

young acquaintance, selected entirely
for personal reasons and not according
to any court etiquette. They make up
the price of the seats among them and
drive down in the White House carriage
to the theater bareheaded and unchap-
eroned after dining together at the
home of one of them.
The other day she decided to make
purchase in a book store after closing
hour She was driving with her moth
er and she hoped out of the carriage
almost before it stopped. Then she ran
up to the door, ratified it, and ran
around to the clerks door, through
which she made a precipitous entrance,
and was out again before the slower
footman could get the use of himself
to assist.
of right young girl, with a high skirt
and untitled jacket. Altogether she was
not one whit less independent, accord
ing to some one who has seen her Of
ten, than the little Ethel who had a
year ago ridden her bicycle up in front
of the candy store next the bookshop.
That time she unassisted had stood the
bicycle three times against a post, three
times had watched it fall. had finally
carried a brick and propped against it,
looked at it a minute to make sure of
its safety, shrugged her boyish should
ers, pulled at her short REFER jacket,
and had gone inside to buy a glass of
soda water.
Goes Out With Her Mother.
Nowadays. to be sure, she seldom
goes unchaperoned. and is the almost
constant companion of her mother.
And she shows one other external
womanhood as well. 1t lies in her
heightened skirts, which are now be-
low her ShoetopS, and Will, on the
promise of Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary,
at afternoon and evening entertain
ments, shortly sweep the floor. Then,
too. the flat-lying bright brown hair
of year ago has taken on the curve
of a soft pompadour and it ends not
as formerly in two braids, but in a
heavy knot on her neck.
In other respects, however, the girl
to whom the whole eastern coast is
trying to give a good time is just a
child who sticks to her REFER jackets
and straight dresses because she is too
uniformed for maturer cuts. All of her
dresses, except one brown tailor made, |
are put up in the youngest of styles. |
and there are no directoire fashions
promised in her wardrobe for later. |
One brown tailor made dress is semi |
fitted and people are objecting to it. |
because it sis not just Ethel's style"
They think that only the round brown |
hat with its band of rose color keeps
that costume appropriately youthful |
for her.
As for the other dresses they are salts
fyingly simple and becoming. Many of |
them are of soft white NULL made with |
bqoirx ykPfd a6d sasbes The is % One
gray, with all of the accessories of
plumes suede shoes, gloves. and bag, |
charmingly toned to it. Indeed, one of |!
the attractions of this debutante lies in |
the ravishingly pretty and simple way |
that she dresses.
At a symphony concert the other after |
noon she was present charmingly gowITed |
sister, Mrs. Longworth, who has bespoken |
the privilege of chaperoning her often |
this winter. was with her. Almost the |
whole interest of that afternoon centered |
not in the music but in the comparison of /
those two sisters. They are both like |
their father. but almost totally different |
from each other. Mrs. Longworth -$ayond |
doubt is growing matronly, but even as |
little girl she was not like the Qttle girl |
her mothers own daughter in features, |
expression. coloring. and manner. In |
she IS like the president. In this |
particular the older daughter differs from
him. And this leaves only one of his con-
spicuous qualities for them to share, |
which is his impulsiveness-
Miss Ethel is big girl with large
bones. fair hair. and the perfect shell-lil<e |
coloring of the Dutch women. In fact she |
betrays her kinship with the Dutch wo-
men in her solid build. her naive ways,
and most vividly of all in the wholesome
ness of her smile. She has not the slen
der figure nor the same sort of high |
spirited dash which contributed so much |
to the attraction of her sister as a de- I
But she has the charm of gen
tleness modified by a boyish ROBUSTNESS
The lines standing with reluctant feet
where the brook and river meet" might !
have been written for her.