The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-22

not support her in the style she was ex-
pecting and that she would be home to
eat within a year. and of course there
none of these predictions has come
true.
You may say what you please about
mems clothes. call them ugly and in
artistic and all that, bemoan the lack
of color and variety and say that we
owe to women, with all their sartorial
excuses, the only picturesqueness and
charm in any human assemblage, but
the cost in time and money, of womenis
dress, as compared to mems, is some
thing frightful- 1t is no wonder so
many women are nervous wrecks when
you think of the instruments of torture
in the. way of corsets, rats, switches,
hairpins, hatpins, and sHperfiuous
clothing the are obliged to wear. Some
men who don't know imagine that a
woman in q fluffy, transparent summer
gown is coolly dressed. She usually
looks cool, by some miraculous means,
but any man in a shirt waist, or even
light weight coat. is dressed more COM
fortab1y than she. A woman suffers
untold misery in dressing in the sum-
mer time. Far be 1t from anybody to
detract from the picturesqueness and
color of our national life, but goodness
knows a woman who tries to look we'll,
De coIuIOrtaDle ana IlVe Within ner
means envies the well-groomed man
who with half the expenditure in
money, energy and nerve force looks
and feels well on every occasion.
4
Cheer up! Monday and the worst
are over.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. and Mrs Joab Mulvane, Mrs.
Speed F. Hughes and her = son David
and Mrs. Harrison S. Morgan left today
for the Mulvane summer home at Crab
Lake, Wisconsin, where Mr. Hughes
and Mr.. Morgan will join them later.
Mr.. Fred Cole, Mr.. Frank Edison and
Mr.. Frank S. Crane spent Sunday with
their families who are camping at
Maple Hill.
Mrs. H. A Auerbach will leave next
month for Atlantic City and other east
ern summer resorts to spend the rest
Carthage, Missouri, arrived today to
visit Mrs. -Auerbacl. 80 -.
Miss Pernelia Curtis is visiting Mrs
James P. Rowley and Miss Floyd Rob-
enson4 who are at West Point for the
summer.
Mr.. Herbert L. Armstrong has re-
turned from a business trip to Utah.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H MeKfrihan, their
son James Wilson McKirihan and Miss
Florence Wilson of Amarillo, Texas, Mr..
James w. Wilson of Colorado City.
Colorado, and Mr.. and Mrs Samuel
Allen of Meriden were here yesterday
for the funeral of James Wilson.
Mr.. Charles S. Eagle has returned
from a business trip to Colorado.
Miss Joy Paxton will return Thurs
day from Kansas City and Miss Har-
riet Thwing and Miss Hazel Thwing,
whom she has been visiting, will come
with her Miss Harriet Thwing is a
Vassar girl.
Mrs. ]. F. McAfee has returned
from an sextended visit in California.
Miss Blanche Rohrer and Miss
Dorothy Gleed went to Kansas City
this morning to spend the day.
Mrs. A. A. linn and son Robert of
Chickasha, Okla, arrived today for a
L. Shelton, 1924 Harrison street
The Richardson Art Embroidery
club will meet with Mrs. r. L. Kirk
patrick, 1885 Polk street, tomorrow
afternoon.
Miss Anna Stubs will spend the
'Cranford,,' during the absence of the
Governor and Mrs. Stubs, who have
gone to their Lawrence home for the
summer. ..s-.s.<
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Waters of Kan
sas City are guests this week of Mr..
and Mrs. J. G. Waters.
Mr.. Hobart Mills has returned from
Colorado. Mr.. w. w. Mills and the
Misses Mills will stay in Colorado all
summer.
Mr.. S. r. futile has returned from
a business trip to New York and
Canada.
Miss Dolly Martin has gone to Seat
| tie to visit the exposition and will
spend the summer in the northwest.
Miss Gladys Gardner, who has been
the guest of Miss Florence Guild, went
home today.
Mr. Henry E. Peck of Scranton, Va,
| is the guest of Mr.. John E. Frost.
Mr.. Russell Grimes has gone to
| Rutledge, Mo-. to take a vacation
| position.
Mrs. r., S. Brigham and Miss Helen
Brigham left today for Tonawanda
New York, to spend the rest of the
\ summer.