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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

is narrow and dull, it means sight
seeing; if you are lonely, it means
meeting interesting people. Ask your
self what is the very opposite of your
mode of life and take that for your va
cation. 1t will be just what you need.
The other day I spent a week end
at the home of some very charming
people who are decidedly intellectual
AS you may have gathered from my
fluffy style of writing and thinking
I'm not. The short story magazine
style of reading suits me perfectly.
buy all those magazines every month.
Well, to return to my subject, there on
the table was every kind of new thought
and intellectual magazine printed.
There was nothing frivolous, so 1 just
had to take what there was or sit
with my hands crossed. There I was
up against it. Well. my dear friends
I lay fiat on my back in the sunshine
and read first one magazine and then
ten or twelve. I devoured them as a
child devours candy when it's system
needs sugar. I read all. There was
mound of solid thought literature
which almost buried me- When r.
finally arose-and, let me tell you, l
never felt so rested, so invigorated,
in my Iife-I could feel tickling SEN
sation in my brain when long closed
thought cells had opened out and ex-
panded. I felt all a-thrilI and a-tingle,
because I had given myself the dan
diest kind of a mental vacation-just
the opposite of what my much abused
brain was getting all the time.
Go you and do likewise!
KATE CLYDE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

Massachusetts coast, where she takes
her dips in the Atlantic during the
season, she has often been seen using
a small red parasol as a protection
from the glare of the sun.
The best type of bathing suit this
season is conspicuous for its sim
plicity. Women of refinement do not
among a crowd of beach loiterers by
wearing dresses that are apt to invite
unpleasant criticism, SO they appear in
dark suits cut in the latest mode and
wear with them attractive accessories.
At Palm Beach early in the spring the
different styles of bathing suits are
tried out and the winners decided upon.
This year the blue ribbon went to
suit of black satin (princess in design,
worn with wide Dutch collar of Irish
crochet lace.
IN fact, all the frocks for the ocean
dip worn at this fashionable resort
were made of some dark colored satin
or silk with a satin finish, and these
materials. together with panama cloth,
mohair and taffeta, are popular this
summer. There is, too, new shantung
called ''shed water tuscan from which
many smart bathing suits are being
made.
The princess style is first favorite,
although the tucked blouse attached
to dart fitted boomers. over which the
carefully hung sheath skirt is smoothly
adjusted, is well liked. The very at
tractive suit seen in the illustration is
OF navy blue silk, trimmed with bias
bands of blue and white striped silk
White pearl buttons of a generous size
make the closing down the front. A
bathing cape, long, loose, an envelop-
ing of cravenette, is now part of the
bathing outfit; also pair of high san
da1-Iil1e boots, silk stockings matching
the suit or trimmings and a becoming
little headdress.
In such attire one can run the CANT
let of hundreds of critical observers
and come off victor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
M%&&&&&E&S&%E@ &S&&&EGS.
y CERVANTS Have Apartments
81 ~ Set Apart For Dressmalins - Is

oven add blueberries. Stir in and bake
in square bread tin At least two cup
fuls of blueberries should be used
more if the dough viii cover well.
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DELICIOUS HUCKLEBERRY GUS
TARDS.
Stew the huclleberries in double
boiler, as you want very little juice.
Half fill deep pie tins lined with a
good crust and cover the fruit with a
custard made of eggs, sugar and milk.
as for custard pie. Bake in rather
quick oven. Best to make individual
pies for family use.
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FRUIT CHARLOTTE.
Line a deep dish with pieces Of
sponge cake cut in strips. Mash a
quart of Strawberries and sweeten
with powdered sugar. Pour in half
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
MRS. FAIRBANKS A PURE FOOD
CHAMPION.

Few women are more interested in
the pure food matters than Mrs. Fair
banks, wife of the former vice presi-
dent. She spoke strongly on the sub
ject at the last meeting of the Indiana
State Federation of Women's Clubs.
saying, among other things: 'It is
criminal for packers of meat and food
purveyors to adulterate the food which
is taken to sustain life and which
mothers must give to their children.
You women are doing right to take
up the fight for pure food, and when
these men come to realize that women
will have none of their poisonous adul-
terations, then, at last, they will come
to their senses"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

off? Not she! She keeps her over
taxed organism at full tension the
whole blessed time, and she putters,
she fumbles and uses up whole days
doing simple stunts she could put
through in one single effort If she
knew how to manage herself.
Poor woman! She has been the
worrier Of the centuries, and half the
time she has worried over things that
never came to pass. That's the pity
of it. There are thousands Of graves
that have been caused by unrelaxed
tension, by needless and senseless
worry.
A woman takes her work home with
her She does it over and over in her
mind. She eats with it, she sleeps
with it, and she grows narrow and
Grabbed and stupid over it.
And the man all this time is grow
ing brighter and stronger, physically
and mentally, because he has learned
how to let go, because he always has
time to go out to dinner with a friend,
to hear a musical comedy, to take
night off occasionally and to think of
something else besides the eternal
grind.
Vacation Means a Change.
Then take the subject of vacation.
What does a vacation mean? A
dress parade? Sitting around and be-
ing bored to death? No, my friends;
we undergo that sort of thing all the
year round. 1t means a complete
change If you live in the city, it
means the country; if you live in the
country, it means the city; if your life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
WHY 6GIomor1's Work
Is Nex'er Done

"-HE average woman doesn't
know how to work. She
doesn't know how to rest
4 She doesn't know how to
take a vacation"
This remarkabl statement was made
by a man recently. It is very true.
Look at the way a woman works!
No wonder that old proverb had a run:
Woman's work is never done.
Humph! and likewise huh!
Humph! and likewise huh! of course.
IT isn't, and it never will be, either,
because the dear thing is a natural
born putterer, and putter she will I'M
til she dies.
Women who accomplish things have
to overcome this weakness for detail
first, and I'll warrant you that every
now and then they have relapse and
feel heredity Juggling at their skirts.
However, to return to the subject, no
tice how a man works. During several
hours he resembles a huge dynamo. If
any person interrupts or gets in the
way, woe to that persons head! And,
then, all of a sudden, like calm after
the storm, comes complete rest He
lounges; he smokes a cigar; he ex-
changes jokes with the Office boy. You
would size him up for the LATEST man
on earth, and you would make a big
mistake, for he is only storing up
strength for the next squirt. He has
relaxed tension absolutely, and that
makes him a first class machine for
all of his days. But is woman wise
enough to do this and slip off the belt
fguratively speaking, and give her
mental machinery a chance to cool
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
KATE CLYDE

Ieghorn hat adorned with rather gen
erous black velvet bow where the
shape turns up becomingly at one side
and it's panache of stiff aigrets is ex-
ceedingly good style.
Plunage is not much in vogue for
travelling hats except in pheasants'
wings, tails and the ordinary quilts. A
number of the new models have straw
trimmings shaped into large pointed
leaves or bows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
FASHION HINTS.
sKIRTs ARE sHIRREp.

SKIRTS ARE SHIRRED.
The designers have decided to put
the full skirt on the market in so
many ways that it must be accepted
The plated one has already gained a
wide showing, but some of the newer
ones are shirred at the waistband in
the old fashioned way. Others are put
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

The American woman is often seen
at her best when in travelling costume
Like the English tourist, she has made
a business of combining practically
with a certain amount of taste. Her
neat, natty tailor made of lightweight
wooden or some of the linen or crash
wash materials this summer will be
topped by a stylish close fitting hat.
Here are three serviceabIe hats for
travelling wear, turned out by one of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

New Yorks smartest purveyors of
English millinery, that have recently
been sent over from dear old London.
Among them is the new sailor of
black straw with an adjustable hat
band. AS seen in this cut, this band
is of greenish ribbon shot through
with gold, but the great advantage of
this trimming is that it can be changed
to match the gown.
For the woman who has passed the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

sailor hat phase of life the stunning
small model of black chip will be found
most attractive. The dome crown is
just large enough to be pretty with
out being bizarre, and the fat bow of
black velvet ribbon and the full white
aigret are exactly the right trimming
in the right place.
Black and white combinations in
millinery are very swagger, and, re-
versing the order of things, the white
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
KIMoNos OF RIBBON.

Some new limonos are made en-
tirely of ribbon, without any fullness
on the shoulders. the underarm seam
being made with an outward slope,
giving a little fullness at the feet
The ribbon should be four inches wide,
stitched together at the edges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

with dainty ruff1ed affairs. Indeed.
they are very easy to T. .ke-simply
take a piece of wide embroidery and
plat it into a ruff1e, mitering the cor
ners, of course. Likewise you could
make them Of lace edged lawn or net
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
THE COAT sHIRT WAIST.

Linen shirt waists-the new coat
style-in natural color or white have
double breasted fronts with the upper
corner turned back and buttoned like
a lapel, three big pearl buttons fas-
tening the waist and sailor collar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
A NEW BRACELET.

With the long sleeve has appeared
a new bracelet, which is of a chain
kind with a pendant of artistic design,
which falls loosely over the sleeve.
The chain is loose and is sometimes
caught at the bottom of the wrist
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

The fac for serving meals out of
doors during the warm weather is
steadily gaining ground with house
wives who have a garden or porch
suitable for such al fresco feasts. Now,
for a small party of four out of door
feasters the very unique set of furnt-
ture seen in the Illustration is es
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
FRUIT RECIPES.
BURBERRY JOHNNYcAKE.

BLUEBERRY JO1NNYCAKE.
This is an old fashioned genuine
New England recipe for a most de-
licious cOncoction: One cupful of
sour milk one teaspoonful of soda,
one-half cupful of molasses. one cup
full of cornmeal Cthe golden meal).
one-half cupfuI of flour. little salt.
When well beaten and ready for the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

the quantity of crushed berries over
the cake, then add another layer OF
cake and top off with whole berries.
Cover the top with whipped cream or
vanilla ice cream just before serving.
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PINEAPPLE PUNCH.
For a delicious fruit punch mix half
a can of shredded pineapple with the
juice of three lemons and four or
anges; add two sliced bananas, a cup
full and a half of sugar and turn into
a bowl with a large piece of ice. Let
it stand until time for serving. Then
turn in a pint of mineral water.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
TOO CRITICAL,

A Munich servant girl has given no
tice to quit because she says that her
mistress persists in playing classical
music for a couple of hours every
morning, although she has not the
slightest notion how it should be in
terpreted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

Mrs. William Chase, it seems. has an
eye for the practical comforts of life
as highly developed as the artistic per-
ceptions of her celebrated husband.
The travelling pillowcase of rubberized
silk was made from her designs for
use on her peregrinations during the
summer. The case contains in a small
compass an eiderdown pillow, a shawl
of lightweight wool and a cap of thin
rubber to protect madams hat in
sudden shower. Stout handles of the
rubberfzed material that can be slung
over the shoulder make transportation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
NEW Hat HOLDER.

Taking care of a hat when one is
not wearing it is always some trouble,
and putting it away in a box, from
which it must be taken out every time
one wants to use it, seems a great
bother, especially when one is in
hurry.
Various hat holders have been con-
trived, some useful and some not
much of a success, but the best one
yet seen and the most steady is
strong spiral coil of heavy wire, the
bottom being larger around than the
crown of a hat and the top much
smaller.
A girl can buy these spiral wire
holders and make them look very
pretty and dainty herself. The wire
must be covered with ribbon to match
the closet fittings. The covering is
done by fastening the end of the rib
bon securely to the bottom end of the
wire, then winding the ribbon closely
around the wire all the way to the top.
Each end should be finished with a
bow The closets should be furnished
with as many of these holders as its
owner has hats in use
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

RUFFLED DUTCH COLLARS.
This season is certainly the undis-
puted reign of the Dutch collar"
But one tires Of the stiff or even soft.
plain, embroidered or lace edge sorts
of collars. The situation is relieved
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

tions in the arrangement of the serv-
ants quarters. The administrative
ability of the clever chatelaine has
been at work as untiringly planning
for the comfort of the twenty-five men
and women who form her staff of do
mestics as it has been for the good of
the Roslyn public schools and the suf-
fragette cause. The upper servants,
most of whom are Engli-h. have their
private dining room, living room. baths
and gymnasium, and a certain number
of underlings are detailed to wait upon
them at table.
In most large establishments like
provisions for the creature comforts
of the servants are to be found: but,
as usual. Mrs. Mackay has taken the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
IRISH CROCHET cRAvATs.

The wonder is that more women do
not take up this pretty handicraft-
Irish lace stitches are easy to do, and
the work goes rapidly. and, as every
one knows. this lace is not only fash
ionable, but is one of the most du-
rable laces made Narrow insertions of
Irish lace in the simple fan" stitch
are set into blouses of the smart Jap
anese Grape, and with these blouses
are worn cravats in the same stitch
with tiny border pattern along the
edges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
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on with two rows of shirring to little
five inch hip yoke. At the foot line
are two or three small ruffies to widen
out the hem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

summer will carry parasols with their
bathing costumes. These parasols are
Just a tiny bit smaller than the sort
carried for street use. Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett has the credit of be-
ing the originator of the fad for car
rying a sunshade with her bathing
suit. At her summer home on the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
HER COMPLEXION.

HE inequalities of the gifts of the
gods are borne in upon a woman
whose little housemaid has a complex
ion of peaches and cream. the texture
of the skin like that of a baby. The
mistress does not begin to have as
good complexion, and the point that
most troubles her is an inner convic-
ton that the little maid does not wash
her face as often as is considered cor
rect by persons who have been prop
erly brought up.
Il know Mary doesn't wash her face
every day." she told a friend recently.
81 am morally certain of it, and look
at her. I wash and wash and keep as
clean as any person can who lives in
filthy town, and look at me. I look
clean all right, but my skin is thick,
and I've about as much color as a tan
shoe What's the use of trying to live
up to moral standards when one has
such a shining example of the useless
ness of washing constantly before
one?'
WRINKLES FROM HEAVY HATS.
Have you noticed how women are
wrinkling their foreheads this summer
in the effort to balance their large.
overshadowing hats on their heads and
to prevent them from topping over
enlHSlyE Inc carIoOn1SC VINO recently
sketched modishly gowned girl with
her face so completely hidden by her
big hat that a line from Vesta Tilley's
popular song ct Don't Know Where
I'm Going, but I'm on My way" told
the story and exaggerated the case
very little.
1t is absolutely true that unsightly
wrinkles are appearing on the fore
heads Of women who affect this kind
of headgear, and if they continue
wearing these enormous shapes work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

That delicious vegetable, aspara-
gus, is about as hard to serve grace
ully as it is>to eat in the same much
% be desired fashion. The silver
Iniths, realizing this awkward state of
FAIRS, have put on the market an as
'sTagus set in siIver-real or imita-
49, with dish. raeK and sauce boat in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

CHE D0eSnf KnosO HosO 10
Refa<---LFS She Does KNOTT
She Won'f H0eO 10 Ger W60f
you Need Our Of Vacation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

Harbor Hill, the beautiful
Clarence Mackay country es-
tate at Roslyn. n. Y, there
exist almost ideal condi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
AN essential feature of the vaca

bathing suit, and all the young
women at coast resorts this |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

HE average woman doesn't
know how to work. She
doesn't know how to rest
= She doesn't know how to
The Detroit times., 1909-03-29
NEW BOOKS Nv
PUBLIC LIBRARY

The following new books have been
received IN the public librhry.
Ray :. Baker New Idfals In Heal
Ing an account of tht Emmanuei
movement Robert ;. BRll-'N Natural
Sources OF lower" transit rmation and
conservation OF energy. clarence r.
Birdsc ye-"The Rcorgauizat Ion of our
Colleges Roilin T. ChH M be Rain
"Gtses in Rocks" Walter M. Chandler
The Trial OF Jesus from a Lawyers
Standpoint Walter + Todd" Mod
ern Constitutions William w. Fowler
social IAfe ar Home in khe Age OF
Cicero" Mary f. Green--"tood Prod
ucts 81 th, World Norris Hilquit1-
socialism IN Theory and Ptactice." J
Edward Hirbye--"Puritanistn in the
south" VIM ~ Law--"HeHoes Of the
Great Lakes" sidney j. Iowa Wis
ion OF India. travel James y Petit
grew" DcsiEn I'm Nature Walter
Observation-Disclosures Manufact hre" Up
tor T. Siullair-"Ciood HEALTH and How
We Won IT," Paul Waink MANA
summer Tour ia Finland. Brb nd Whit
lock- Abraham Lincoln" biography.
John y. Wolcott---"H eZckiant' an ora
torio. Rene BazIu-"This IN NV Son.
George II Brennan Bill Hruetell'
James r. Cdbcll-~The CORDS OF VAN
ity." Florence =. Kelly-"The Dclatield
Affair" Charles Klein-"The Music
Master Jean Webster-'Much Ado
4 bout Peter
The Detroit times., 1909-03-29
X-RAY CAN Be
MADE HARMLESS
PROF. RoWNTREE FINDS HOW TO
MAKE THEM STIMULATING,
NOT DESTRUCTIVE.

LONDON. March 26.-Prof Cecil
Rowntree. F. II. G. -. of the Middle.
sex hospital Cancer Research Labora-
tories. In the course of q lecture be
fore the ROYAL College OF Surgeons on
the N'ray and cancer stated that
there had been In England eleven
cases OF cancer arising in N.ray work
ers
Prof Rowntree said that it was
probable that this form OF growth Was
nor OF so malignant a nature as other
kinds. and that. therefore. the very
extensive operations which would be
an appropriate procedure ia cases oil
ordinary cancer were unnecessary
The investigation Of the influence of
the Nray on animals was carried out
and IL was found that. in addition 10
some ordinary changes. such as are
met with on the hands OF X.ray work.
ers. others of more striking nature
had manifested themselves. Foi In
stance. II was found that when the up
per surface OF rats tail was exposed
to the ray, the cells Of the exposed
surface underwent changes OF de-
structive nature. whereas the ray, az
tenuated by passing through the thick.
ness of the tail, stimulated the cells
on the opposite side TO increased
growth.
Other evidence was brought for
ward which goes TO show Xrays have.
IN TACT. two separate and distinct &C.
tons upon animal and vegetable cells
In relatively large doses they have de-
struCtiVe or DaralyzinR action unon Tho
cells activity. whereas in small and
oft-repeated doses they bring about ex-
actly the opposite condition and slim
ulate the tissues TO abnormal activity
and increased growth.
Prof. Rowntree is OF the opinion
that these observation may have an
important practical application in con
nection with the treatment OF cancer.
The Detroit times., 1909-03-29
In Socie ty

After lovers quarrel Of more than
two decades ago, the marriage of Har-
riet Mellus, well known in this city
AS the president OF the Detroit Cat
club and Charles Latimer Freeman,
OF Kansas City, Kan. was celebrated
in the latter city a week ago Wednes
day. Many years ago Charles Free
man was engaged in business wits
his uncle in this city. and he and
Miss MelIus were to have been mar
ried but through a misunderstanding
the two drifted apart Freeman went
to Kansas City, and after twenty
years. Miss Melus. who lived alone
with her beautiful prize cats. heard
that her erstwhiie lover was i'll. She
al once went to- the western city, the
old VOWS were renewed and the we'd
ding followed soon after. Mrs. Free
man Will return 90 Detroit In the near
future and as soon as her husband
can settle his affairs in Kansas City,
he will follow.
The Detroit times., 1909-03-29
Power Of the Senate.

Speaker Cannon. at the recent Grid
iron club dinner III Washington. stood
up for the senate.
You'd think, the way the senate is
blamed for everything" he said that
II had supernatural powers.
A crowd OF farmers were knocking
the senate one marker day last month.
when an old fellow OF only one.horse.
power brain hustled into their midst.
Well. byes. said he what's the
senate up to now
Why. amt yes heerd. Zachary p
said young farmer, winking AT the
others. The senate's went and passed
The Detroit times., 1909-03-29
EXPERT ON STAND
IN PRISON INQUIRY

JACKSON. Mich March 27.-Har-
ry Holton. OF Holton a. Weatherwax.
an expert on prices of the supplies
used In the binder twine plant in Jack
son prison, was called before the
grand jury today. The prosecution Is
anxious 10 learn If inflated prices were
paid for the supplies purchased In
Ayton, Ont Warden Armstrong ask
ed Supt Brewer To go to Ayton and
look al the machinery and If he found
it satisfactory TO ship it, which he did,
Indications are that the investiga.
ton will be ended next week II eN-
Warden Armstrong is not called TO
the stand Adjournment was taken
today till Monday.