The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-17

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maker. Bishop sleeves are used. and
are much more kind to the slender arm
of a young girl than the popular close
fitting ones so much seen. EnclrcAng
the little high waist is a crushed folio
Of corn-colored liberty, with rosette OF
the same.
The Sigma Delta Psi sorority of
Washburn are keeping busy even dur
ing vacation with showers for the new
chapter house which they will occupy
next fall, when college opens for the
winter term. The house formerly Oc-
cupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Paul A. Love-
we'll at Fifteenth and Mu1vane streets
is being remodeled for the use of the
sorority. The house, which formerly
faced north, has been turned to race
on Mulvane street, and new hard wood
floors and nifty windows and other
improvements are being made. me
sorority girls have given number OF
showers for their house. They mad
kitchen shower not long ago and a
linen shower this week at the nome OF
Miss Clara Daniels and they are buster
than gas metres getting their furnlsh-
ings and fixings together in time for
the rushing season
The usual Saturday night dinner
and dance for members and their
families will be given at the country
club tonight.
The stenographer Replies: THE
recent communication of a Rebel
lious Wife published in your depart
ment in which she compared her ex-
istence to that of her husband s
stenographer, proved, I am sure
vastly amusing to the Poor Working
Girls who read it. The r. w. seems
to think that life for a stenographer
her eight hours in the office are over
But a wage earning woman has other
things to do besides earn her salary.
Who, does the r. w. suppose, mendS
and cleans and presses the steno-
grapher's clothes for her. These are
things that few wage-earning women
can afford to hire done, and they
take lots of time. The average girl
who works downtown spends her
evenings and Sundays shampooing
her hair manicuring her nails, and
keeping her clothes in condition.
Does the RebeIlious Wife imagine
that a stenographer fits gaily from
the office inthe evening goes out to
dinner and spends the evening in un-
interrupted revelry? A girl who has
worked eight hours in an office is
not fit physically for gadding and if
she does CAD, her health or her work
suffer. You will find that the aver
age successful business woman has
learned early in her career as
wage-earner that the best use she
can make of her spare time is to
sleep. It is more important than eA
ercise or recreation.
rrNv- IL
ing girl to dress within her means
and look neat and attractive. 1t costs
lots of time and energy as we'll as
more money than the woman in an
equal station who stays at home ex-
ponds. And in addition, few wage
earning women are entirely free from
domestic cares. If the stenographer
of the Rebellious Wife's husband is
in that unfortunate position of being
alone in the world, she may live in
one room in an inferior boarding
house-a room that is hot in sum-
mer, and cold in winter. cherries,
crowded, stuffy, in which case think
not even the Rebellious Wife, with
her big house and servants and the
satisfaction of her material wants,
which she dismisses so lightly, would
envy her. Otherwise she has a home,
for which the normal woman has an
innate need, either with relatives or
with other bachelor girls, and in
that case she also has her domestic
cares and responsibilities and all
though she feels that her home, its
privileges and comforts, are well
worth whatever they cost, they add
to her duties and help to stretch her
working hours from the eight neces-
sary to earn her salary to the ten
and twelve which she actually puts
in in keeping herself in condition
physically and sartorially.
THE RebelIious Wife compares
her allowance to the stenographer's
salary. I will pass over the differ
ences between the plain street clothes
for which so large a part of a wage
earning woman's money must go, and
the friIls and furbelows and luxu-
rious personal appointments. dear to
every woman's heart, with which the
Rebellious Wife admits her husband
supplies her. Each to her
own niche in life, and I have often
observed that rich peoples money
doesn't seem to buy them any more |
than poor peoples That is, I can
understand that the luxuries which
the r. w. enjoys are essential to the !