The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-05
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Miss Fay Quinton has asked guests
1or luncheon tomorrow IN COM
pllment to Mrs. Fraser w. Cole.
Emporia Gazette: Miss Sarah
Wilder, daughter of Mr. and MRS. Weo
Wilder, of Hiawatha, is destined TO De
one OF the worlds greatest sopranos.
She has a marvellous voice, Whlcn mas
been trained by the famous Jean de
Reszke, and she will devote several
more years to study she sang IN
Kansas City Monday night ana the
Times, which is not given TO tulsome
praise, is enthusiastic over her spleh-
did achievement.
Miss Wilder was a student at the
University of Kansas and is member
of the Pi Phi sorority. She mas
visited in Topeka.
All the girls are crazy about a GER
tain Topeka chap but they hnd MN
awfully difficult because about the
only way a Perfect Lady can start
anything with a man is to ask him
with two others for game OF bridge
and this man is so smart he refuses
to play bridge.
Miss Grace Rousseau will entertain
five tables at high five this evening at
her home, 1116 Sixth avenue, west,
for Miss Estelle Wilson of Chandler,
Okla. and Miss Attic Klingberg of
Junction City who are visiting her.
Miss Wilson will be here for about
three weeks but Miss Klingberg re-
turns to Junction City Saturday Miss
Rousseau will give a second party for
them tomorrow afternoon.
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women's dress is the subject of an
interesting article in the November
American by Professor Thomas of the
University of Chicago. The subject is
not a new one. But Professor Thomas
has something new to say about it.
From his point of view, the moralists
were all on the wrong tack. The OBJ
Ject of their abuse is mere helpless
victim, "only a pawn in the industrial
game played by man"
Her individual possessor uses her"
says Professor Thomas. "as a symbol
of his wealth, and the captains of in
dustry make her the occasion of
market for the costly and changeable
objects which fashionable habits force
her to accept. New fashions are not
always beautiful; they are even often
ugly, and women know 1t; but they
embrace changes as frequent and as
radical as the ingenuity of the mode
makers can devise. Women do not
wear what they want, but what the
manufacturers and trades people want
them to want. The people who supply
them also control them"
The reason for the extreme diff
ferentiation in the dress of the sexes
Is not due to the nature of either, ac-
cording to Professor Thomas. Man is
naturally inclined to personal display
he says, but he has come to have
more effective means of getting re-
suits, and so he has given up orna-
ment. Money is now his main
charm" Woman, on the contrary,
has to depend on her charm for
everything. She is mot naturally
CURED a specialized skill which gave
him a mastery of the world and her
person as Well" she began to special
lie the display which he was abandon
Ing. Restricted in movement, with no
specialized skill, with not even life to
educate her in the broad sense in
which men encounter it, and limited
in her interests by the proprietary
tastes of man, her occupation is to
charm" And in this occupation she
has become so absorbed as even to
forget its original purpose. She "al-
most loses sight of man-after mar
riage; at least-in her interest in out
stripping other women. Men would
prefer her more simply dressed, but
this Is her game-indeed, it is almost
her business" And here is retribu-
ton, for man pays the bills"
Underlying the charm Of woman's
dress Professor Thomas finds two
main principles. namely, its emphasis
of her sex and the helplessness to
which 1t reduces her. For instructive
reasons which we do not control and
do not completely understand, signs of
SEX he says. have a very powerful
emotional effect" Hence the en-
phasis of woman's most striking
anatomical popularity. a waist which
measures small in comparison with
ness involved in lacing. high heels.
undivided skirts and other i'm
pedimenta of women has a charm in
the eyes of man because it appeals to
ms protective and masterful Instincts
II is ms opportunity since the dis
appearance of large game and in the
piping times of peace"
X
Miss Sue Rodgers entertained her
Drldge club this afternoon. Miss Ruth
Tincher. Miss Florence Guild. Miss
Hazel Howe and Miss Helen Haughey
were guests.
He was buying a new trunk and
m NEE The Girl he asked her to go
with him to look at it. We'll" he
said do you suppose that will hold
our clothes?" "Oh!" she responded
politely rs some one going to share
Mrs. H. F. Guthrie entertained
nelghoorhood friends Tuesday after
noon at her house. 1920 Harrison. for
her sister. Mrs. T. H. Lainhart, of Al
bany, Mo.
X
Mrs. John Brunt entertained her 600
S s ana the Following guests Wednes-
day afternoon: Miss Bessie St,,Itz 90
spokane, Wash. Mrs. Bert Hopkins Of
Pennyan, n. Y. Miss Hammond Of
Elgln. Ill, Mrs. Wayland ChanrSan
MISS Bertie Love, Miss Nell Kirk Miss
1 z,.I. -! rurSeIl, mrs. w. c. McDonough,
MISS Eta Covell and Miss Ethel Had
ley. Ahau-
= X
Won't you come up and take NV
mar down p a girl called to her sister
who was downstairs. and the Neor
Thing replied: why not throw, a.
down TO me?" II
The annual dinner given h., a.,