The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-05
A. S. Thomas Has Returned
From an Eastern Trip.
Describes the Up-to-Date Girl
of New York City.
GOWN FITS LIKE SNAKES SKIN
She Carries a Cane and a Cigar
cite Case.
Wears a MOnOcIe and Puts
Jewels on Her Ankles.

Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Thomas have re-
turned from a months trip in the
east. Mr.. Thomas tells a lot of stories
about his trip. He picked up shells at
Gettysburg-saw $500 veterans in a
mile of tents; he purchased Italian
canoes of greasy signor who couldn' t
speak a word of English; he bought
diamonds as a doctor buys pills: he
weathered a northeaster and trip on
the dip-the-dip at Coney Island; he
saw how records are made at the Vic
tor shops in Philadelphia; he brought
back a supply of jeweled anklets and
describes how the Broadway 'golI
looks when she wears them.
Here's a picture of her: She Saun-
tiers out of a modiste's shop on Fifth
avenue. OF course she carries cane
"a swagger cane with a cigarette case
in the slim gold handle. OF course
she wears a monocle. over one eye
is a small black straw hat. Her neck
is swathed in fur. Her gown fits like
the skin of a snake-this is a bona
fide description. We approach the eli
max; her skirt is split half way to the
knees. Her satin slippers are made
with a high jeweled heel; the buckles
on them match the anklet which clasps
her neatly above the smooth silk on
her instep.
"They don't all look like that ?"
gasped Mr.. Thomas listener.
Lord, yes" asserted the Topeka
jeweler, ''al of EN-. Want to see
some anklets?' He produced box
Didn't get so awfully many-dont
think they'll sell well in Topeka for a
couple of years"
One pair of ankIets and buckles is
heavy gold inlaid with enormous jades;
another is of amethysts and silver; a
third is of rhinestones-
"Geei" said lad who was looking
at them.
Slit Skirts Are Common.
h
avenue. The small clerks in the de-
partment stores rip up the side of their
Shepherds plaids which they wear
with their Balkan blouses. Also, the
turkey trot is not confined to the st.
Regis ball room
A hurdy-gurdy rattles down a street
on the East side. Here's a penny,
mister" chirps a kiddie. After the
hand organ man has ground out the
''Miserere'' from 'Trovatore" he be
ately a dozen little couples swagger
down the street; dancers three feet
high, tango with inimitable grace,
about the blase music man.
Mr.. Thomas didn't go to New York
to purchase anklets or watch young
sters rag in Little Italy. He went
to buy diamonds-and he has brought
home hundreds of them. He wraps
them in tissue paper and drops them
in envelopes as unconcernedly as a
pills. He has dozens of small, crystal
clear stones to be used in clusters;
creamy diamonds with a golden twin
kle; and diamonds with a blue CLINT,
like a star on wintry night.
According to Mr.. Thomas, Maiden
Lane is alive with diamond merchants
from all over the country.
The Diamond Tariff.
1.-THE act pending in congress- he
explained. will revolutionize the di-
almond trade. It will increase the duty
enormously and enlarge the cost at
least 20 per cent. In fact, it will make
diamonds almost prohibitive. Con-
gresSs attempt to reduce the high cost
of living by raising the price on lux
uries is commendabIe-but hard on US.
Washington is flooded with diamond
importers from across the Big Pond"
New York, Mr.. Thomas declares. is
in the clutches of a fad for canoes
and italian filigree work. The To
pekan purchased them through an in
terpreter from a sauve italian who
couldn't even say Hello in English.
Three Days at Gettysburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas spent three
days at Gettysburg among the bent.
gray veterans living under the sky in
their miles of tents. They visited the
battlefield under the direction of a
guide who was in Pickett's charge: as
a souvenir he gave them the bone of
a Confederate soldier whose skeleton
ratified about in his gray uniform long
after the battle was done.
They visited the Victor Talking Ma
chine company in Philadelphia-saw
how popular records are made; all the
operate stars are in Europe.
Take it all in ALL said Mr.. Thomas
"I never had more interesting trip
in my life