The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-03
Lecturer Resented Assertion
She Isn't Real Madam Yale.
FEW MEN IN AUDIENCE
Nothing Startling Is Said or
Done During Talk.
Women Are Given Pointers on
How to Be Beautiful.

"One hundred thousand dollars in
gold,' said Madame Yale" who at
the Grand yesterday gave a beauty
lecture, to teach women Of Topeka to
resist the encroachments of time, in
cidentally to advertise the Yale toilet
preparations, awaits anybody who
can prove that I am not the one. only
and original Madame Yale" And the
scoffers in the audience who had been
saying a minute before that the big
blonde on the stage hadn't been in the
lecture business three months, and
that she must have been carrying
spear in the last row OF a burlesQue
company before she began masquerad-
ing as Madame Yale, never cheeped.
And come of 'em must need the money,
too.
The Grand was crowded for the
beauty lecture. Women of all ages.
sizes, and stages of preservation were
there and the color line was not
drawn. Although the madame had
nothing to say about how to make
kinky hair straight, black skin white.
tickets for the lecture were given out
without reference to race. color or
previous condition Of servitude. 1t
had been announced that the lecture
was for women only but there were a
orchestra, the ushers, and some bold
and daring males from Crosby Bros
store, the local dispensary OF the
Madame Yale beauty aids. However,
nothing they saw or heard was espe-
cially startling, and Madame Yale
soothingly informed them that none Of
her health and beauty aids and rene
dies would hurt men, any more than
they would women, and that she had
only one exclusively female prepara-
ton.
at wonder" said girl in the audi
ence, 'if For Men Only lecture q
have always been dying to hear one)
would be equally tame and disappoint-
ing?"
The Madame Yale stunt is in four
acts: first lecture, second q physical
culture exhibition, third a ah-ah-
limb show, and fourth another COS
tune. Madame Yale is the sole per-
former. She came out first in a re-
ception gown of ecru lace with
touches of coral and a White lace hat.
laden with plumes in coral shades. She
wore fully thirty-five dollars worth of
near diamonds. had shoes and hose to
match her gown and looked like all
the money. In this costume she gave
her beauty talk.
Beauty" said Madame Yale. "to be
perfect must be physical, mental and
spiritual" And every woman In the.
house sat up with a self-conscious,
smirk, looked at her neighbor out of
the corner of her eye with a plying
expression and thought, "How true.
those words are!
In her second act Madame Yale
wore a pink messaline costume, very,
decollette as to bodice and knee length
as to skirt with tan shoes and hose.
She had on a girdle corset, the top of
which could be discerned during her
exercises. just above the waist line.
The Madame Yale beauty book warns
women against corsets, but if Madame
Yale didn't wear them her hips would
spread out all over the stage, for she
confesses to one hundred and sixty
five pounds, although she coyly admits
that she is SO well proportional and
in such perfect physical condition that
she doesn't appear to weigh more than
one hundred and thirty.
In the third act the Madame wore
costume suggesting the leader of
the Amazons in a Sam T. Jack show
"a black and white creation, tights,
hussar jacket and all that. Very be-
coming, but if you should adopt such
costume in order to hold your hus-
bands affections, and he should come
home and find you washing dishes in
it, you could never make him think
he hadn't been doped and led to the
wrong house. Home was never like
this the poor man would exclaim
and the end would be either in the