The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06
WHITE ON MUCK RAKING
Emporia Editor says 1t Has Been
Toned Down.

New York. June e.-"Modes this
year are much more severe and on
palmer lines-I'm speaking of muck
raking, of course said William Allen
White in an interview given to the
New York Sun. "They are with fewer
screens and less pronounced than
those. say. of 1902 or 1903.
There has been gradual quieting
of styles in the literature of agitation,
repression of modish effects, and
colors are scaling down from the
crimson of 1905 to mauves and grays,
and very small checks are more fash
| ionable now than in the days that Mr..
Mcclure invented the first merry
widow hat to be talked through by all
the young men and women OF tne
| cheaper magazines.
81 believe on the whole 1t is no
| longer fashionable to try to change
the economic system of the country;
we are going in for politics rather
than economic effects.
| Initiative and referendum. which,
! by the way, are not horse medicine,
have taken the place of the inequit-
able distribution of wealth; we are go
| ing in for the direct primary, recall,
the short ballot and other purely polit-
| ical reforms which lack pronounced
| effects and the cheap manner OF styles
in the middle of the past decade of
years.
| 81 believe also that the gay and
| somewhat gorgeous trimmings of or
nate omniscience are passing. There
| seems to be a distinct movement for
somber qualifications, negations and
expectations which indicate the per-
manent setting of new style in the mil
| linery of our profession.
| "Of course there are persons who
still wear the CANDY plumes of the
trust buster-the large rhododendrons
| nv dro aiOTaftaS
pompons of the earliest period of the
Terror; but these persons are a little
outre and are in general frowned upon
| by the more fastfdious and effectual
| of the cult o-r
Then you believe undertaking is get
ting safe and sane?' the question was
| by way of reminder.
| Hardly safe and sane, but indicating
| a desire to get away from the harsher
methods of treatment which were so
striking and distinct, but which have
| since become to modern eyes so gar1Sh
| cI,d unpleasant" he replied.
| Il notice that my fellow raker, Mr..
! Steffens, is working out plan of polit-
| ical redemption for Boston and is add
| Ing those quiet tailored effects that are
ers. Miss TarbelPs new suit is a plain,
! unruff1ed dissertation on the tariff and
with an accompanying house dress of
| becoming pearl gray about the Ameri-
| Cdn MOiilC1i.
| Mr.. Baker chooses the simple con-
| ventional black of the cloister and has
| just published a book on churches in
| which he has muckraked them with a
| camel hair brush and polished them off
with a channels skin, with dash here
and there of lavender talcum powder
very sweet
What about the return of Roose-
velt?" he was asked. What effect will
his coming have on the summer
modest"
Roosevelt, who is the Grand Old
Rake of the Amalgamated and Amiable
Order of Muckrakers, sets his own
styles" vas the solemn reply. "Ali the
| boys, including Mr.. Hapgood, Mr.. Col
| lier and Mr.. Ridgeway, are dying to see
what new effects he will bring home in
| his trunks. We believe he talked most
beautifully through his new Egyptian
| bonnet last week, and we are simply
perishing with curiosity to see what he
| will give us for fall and winter wear,
You may be sure it will be something
effective"