The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-20
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

am not one of those people who
see immodesty III every little thing
The folks who shrek 'iGdecency' at
elbow sleeves and Dutch necks and
thin stockings and peek a-boo waists
remind me forcibly of the old saying,
ITO the pure all things are pure
But when it comes to women shad-
0Wg.aphing the exact lines OF their
figures on the public consciousness the
way so many Of them co noW--Weil
there's where I make my stand
It wasn't so bad in the winter when
the materials were thick and heavy,
but now that they are thin and cling
ing-but why describe the effect, you
know as well as I what it Is
Watch any group of men in pup
lie place where men and women are
passing and see how quickly some OF
them glance after a woman dressed IN
this way.
Wouldn't you think those glances
would burn right into her back?
In japan, as you probably know, the
women of bad character are supposed
to tie the sash in front instead OF In
back. A Japanese on visit to this
country evidently thought he had dis
covered a. parallel to this custom When
he saw woman in one of these ex-
q .edfneIv c1inging gowns, for he point
ed Ger out to his American companion
and inquired, THAT is what your
women of the demi monde WEAR
one more word. Especially for the
Girl over whose head my PREVIOUS re-
marks have passed, who Is SHINING AZ
nv accusation of immocesty as all
newspaper talk and assuring herset
that I'm one of those who don't know
or care anything about style
Whisper. my dear. A dressmaker
whom I know just came back from a
trim to Paris ITO think that Ameri-
can women are still wearing those
abominable tight skirts she said.
ssVVhv. they've dropped them long ago
IN Paris. They say they ar ugly and
impossible. I suppose you people VIII
realize that in a year or two
What matter if my previous argu-
ments against tight gowns have fallen
Surely have an answerable one in
that
Here's suggestion for the young
person who is apt to be impatient
when father or mother doesn't readily
understand something. and who. in
stead of gently explaining things as
she would be to her friends, snaps
them up with 1--WE told YOU that four
times already''=or something like
that.
The little stenographer lady contrib
uted the suggestion. She says she has
been a victim of the hobit. but isn't
ever going to be again. Personally,
/ believe she never really Was
1T all came over me in a flash the
other night" she says. TT was just
before Christmas. I'd been up until
1 O'Clock the night before working my
head off to finish something that had
to go away I'd skipped my lunch to
do some final shopping. I'd had ter
rifically long hard day at the office
and I came that night so dead tired
that my head felt all confused and
queer.
well. after supper. mother was do
ing up presents for me and 7 was try
ing to write one or twe Christmas
cards. Every now and tFe1, she'd ask
me who was to have the lace jabot
or If Id written the card to go with
Aunt EIiza's sofa pillow and I was
so tired that each time it actually
took me two or three minutes to get
It through my head what she wanted
And all at once it came over me
that that was the way CT it. Don't
you see? They've had a long day of
It and it's toward evening and they're