The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25


! A. Huron and Judge Hugh Mcfarland
with a view to learning the best way
to handle the problem.
The club began arrangements for
big summer party to be given soon, at
which all the members of the club VIII
meet before the opening of the year
work of the club The social commit
+ tee will have the affair in charge
Z T.
The West Side Forestry club will
have meeting THURSDAY win mrs
Charles Riker and Mrs. Howard john
ston, at Mrs. Riker's country home.
Mrs ]. NJ. Meade will read a paper on
Fall Planting
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Foster, Mr.. Fos-
ter's sister Mrs. James Trainer, of
Philadelphia, Miss Miriam Foster, Miss
Ruth Foster Mr.. Herbert Trainer or
Philadelphia, Mr.. Carl Beasor of Aar-
risburg, and Mitchell Foster, spent the
weekend at the Foster cottage at Lake
View.
Word has been received in Topeka or
the marriage of Miss Marie Claire An
derson, formerly of Topeka, and Mr..
George Roeth, Jr., formerly of M1lWau-
kee, Wis, which took place in Los
Angeles, Cal, Saturday, August %. Mr..
and Mrs. Roeth will make their home
in Pasadena, Cal.
Announcement is made by Mrs. Mary
Bell, of the engagement of her daugh-
ter. Harriet. to Mr.. Sidney Smith. The
marriage will be solemnized in Septem-
ber Miss Bell is at the head of one
of the departments of Crosby Bros
store. Mr.. Smith is employed by the
Merriam Mortgage company. and he
and his bride will make their home
in Topeka.
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The moor snIit skirt so frequently
brought before police judges, vigor-
ously blamed for all the sins of man
kind, and now on trial for its life, mas
at last found a champion outside the
circle of dreSsmakers and designers
Munsey's Magazine has come out in its
defense and following is the plea:
A shocked world is hiding it's eyes
with it's hands-and peeking through
it's fingers-in horror at the tmmod-
est split skirt and the thin petticoat.
AS a matter of fact. both the split
skirt, and the petticoatless costume
have much to recommend them, from
a womans point of view. The skirt,
with its naughty little slit at the side,
which admits not only of freedom of
movement, but of the gaze of the pas
serby. is no more immodest than past
vagaries of fashion, and has the virtue
of being at least an affair of material
comfort to the wearer. Once upon
time the women wore hOop-skirts
which bobbed up and down with the
breeze, and exposed not only the ankle
of the wearer. but goodness knows
what besides in the way of lingerie
Then came the hustle. which when one
really comes down to it, was no more
or less than a most vulgar accentua-
ton of a certain portion OF the anat-
omy. Then came the tight basque
which showed off the form with I'M
erring accuracy, suggesting what it
did not reveal. All these freaks of
fashion were manifestly vulgar, I'M
necessary and unsightly. When tight
skirts forced women to remedy their
crippled condition they are charged
with immOdesty. Their attempt to |
make their general effect more COM |
Portable and sensible is called bold. |
Instead of praising them for possess |
deliberately to slit the skirts that |
made them hobble about like idiots |
there are some who boot, gaze and |
poke fun at them. That 1t is the |
women who have to wear the skirts |
is a fact that does not appeal to the |
large majority of the stronger sex !
the Peeping Toms who throw the mud |
They never tried to wear a skirt. This |
is the twentieth century, and women |
have passed out of the veil wearing !
stage. The split skirt-or, more cor
rectly speaking the splitting of the |
the unconscious practical |
of the trend of the |
time and an official announcement to |
longer dress for the delectation of the !
male eyes alone. Whether it is for
his good or for his bad, they have an
themselves determined to
have a reasonable amount of comfort
and freedom. They have cast off re-
sponsibility for the real or alleged
lure of their arms or legs. and have
become human beings. The slit is
little declaration of independence all
by itself. SO it seems as though it
4I>a - hi
of seeing women dress comfortably
and naturally.
Announcement has been made of
kins, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
II. F. Perkins, to Mr.. Eugene j. Bur-
nett, the wedding to take place in the
early fall. Miss Perkins is graduate
of the Topeka high school and the
State Normal school at Emporia and
since her graduation she has taught
in the Valley Falls schools and in the
Topeka schools.
Mr.. Burnett is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs l. H. Burnett of Kansas City. He
formerly lived in Valley Falls, where
he met Miss Perkins, and a t one time
ne had a position in Topeka with the
Santa Fee He is now engaged in the
drug business with his father in Kan
sas City. where he and his bride Will |
make their home.
Miss Anna May Walker and Miss
Margaret Price gave a picnic party in
Central Park complimentary to Miss
Margaret Douglass, who will spend
he coming year in Colorado. Those
who attended were: Miss Douglass,
Miss Walker, Miss Price, Miss Nellie
logan, Miss Erminnie Plat, Miss
Martha Whittemore, Miss Pauline
aynes Miss Greta Gartner, Miss
Esther Walker, Miss Bessie Cooper,
Miss Wilma Perry. Miss Frances Nor