The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-28

Although the dining room at the
Country club will colse with the ia
BILE d'hote dinner tomorrow night the
entertainment committee, which in
cludes Mrs. Norman s. Wear, Mrs
Willis Norton and Mr.. John F. Norton
and which has given some especially
successful parties this season, has two
entertainments planned for October
A musicale will probably be given
the middle of the month and the sea-
son will close in a blaze of glory with
a Halloween party which will take
the form of harvest home barn
dance. The usual Halloween decora-
tions will be employed, doughnuts and
cider will be served, there viii be piles
of hay in lieu of cosy corners and the
guests will be expected to wear rustic
costumes to add to the pictorial eff
feet The patronage of the dining
room falls off to such an extent at
this season that it is no longer prac-
but October is really the most delight
full month of the year at the club
and the weather is so much more IA
vorable for dancing than the summer
season that there is a general demand
among the members for autumn en-
tertainments- The Halloween party,
which will be given on Saturday
night as Halloween falls on Sunday,
will be somewhat on the order of the
annual Halloween dance at the Chi
toned country frolic is enjoyed, the
men wearing oVeralls, straw hats,
jumpers and similar attire and the
women in Bingham frocks and aprons,
sunbonnets and pigtail braids. The
Phi Lambda Epsilon annual corn
jiggin' is on this order and is always
the prettiest and most picturesque of
the many pretty dances given in the
Mellin's Food crowd.
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there is an evenings entertainment in
the study of the womens hair. Some
of the most fearful and wonderful eff
fects are seen and it would be diff
cult to say whether the ultra-fashion-
able or the fashionably impossible
coiffures are the funnier. 1t is hard
to decide between the great shelf of
puffs and braids and curls, built out
over mattresses of rats which form
semi-circle about the heads of the
Gum-chewers' union and the little,
tight, twisted knob on the head of the
woman who sits just behind one of
these remarkable creations They
say hair is going out, that is, hair in
such stupendous quantities, and that
1t is possible to sit behind fashion,
able New York woman at the theater
and see something of the stage, but
In Topeka there are few signs of
change and the only women who don't
wear exaggerated coiffures are those
who never did wear them. A
good many women do their hair in
such a fashion that one feels certain
they never look in a mirror during
the process of that they study the
front view only. An astonishing num-
Der of otherwise we'll gotten up wo-
men do their hair with utter disre-
gard of the peculiarities of their
heads and features and the profile
view is consequently often discourage
ing. A look around the theater
will convince you that men are bet
ter looking than women. Not only is
less expected of them, but they are
positively better looking, and hold
their age" much better. a young girl
is beautiful and charming but the
average woman past twenty-five is not
so good looking as her husband and
not, for all the time and money she
spends on her clothes. so well dressed.