The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-21
KANSAS COMNENT
NEED COLOR ARCHITECTS.

Cc-1SAASAr @bAC HAS DScn SdlQ ana l0LL
unsaid after being thought, in regard
to women's hats in church. But one
matter of public import which The
Herald believes is a. more crying need
Is the question of plans. specifications
and construction of women's hair an
nexatlons with view to harmony of de-
tail.
TO be explicit. there is need for a
pun1c inspector of manufactured hair
mats who is not color blind and who
VIII secure a better average of har-
mony OF color and fabric. To make
1t still more plain what we would de-
sire, II need be said that there is at
present entirely too much mixing of
hemp and sisal in the makeup of
structural works which adorn the FEM
mime head.
Don't misunderstood US. feminine
reader We do not object to switches.
what we need is a better distribution
of them. The hair mattress factories
are too prone to sidetrack orders of
tne brunette lady and send them to a
blonde. We object, mildly, of course,
to natural auburn hair surmounted by
the manufactured article of a Kahki
/ shade. And anyone knows that the
imported sisa1 and the home brown
sisal are not of the same shade and
! texture. Same way with the hemp.
| There are various kinds of it. What
the women should do is to club to-
gether and insist on the mills and fac
! tories putting out the right grade and
keeping the output up to the stand
ard. The varied climates have a va
ried effect upon the raw material be-
fore 1t is made into the finished
product.
So too much care can not be given
the selection of the fall and winter
/ matching with view to retaining the
splendid ensemble effect and the har-
monious blending of nature and skilled
art and industry on the feminine head.
course in plain and solid Ornamental
ton might be established in the
schools. At least there should be some
remedy for growing tendency i'm
ported from the east to disregard color
schemes in hair building.-OttaWa
| Herald.
KANSAS CENSUS FIGURES.
Kansas has gained only a quarter of
| million in the last ten years and the
p, gain has been mostly in the cities; the
| country districts have barely held their
own. 1t isn't much to brag about, and
j knowing it, the Kansas mind will cease
I its show of casual interest in the doings
/ IN Portugal, the crimes of the Congo
and the progessiveness of the Films
! and the progressiveness of the Firms
matter.
: producing state in the country. 1t has
| as large or a greater per capita wealth
than any other. 1t has more of its
J young men and women in schools and
| colleges, according to population, than
any other state in the Union. 1t has
the finest climate and the most whole
some atmosphere to be found in all the
world. The poet didn't exaggerate a
particle when he said the sun shone
brightest and the skies were bluest in
Kansas. If some idea of the appeal of
Kansas to the thorough Kansan might
be given to the world at large, they'd
be coming by trains and aaeroplanes.
caravans and carryalls, coupes and
carts; but they don't, and haven't and
it seems really that they won't, until
we change the system somehow.
The Times is not prepared to say that
it can locate the trouble, but it is high
| time that some one were finding out
exactly what it is, and so it suggests
that the governor be empowered by the
next legislature to appoint a commission
to inquire into the case, with power to
act.-Leavenworth Times.