The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

o. Coe each Monday evening during
the rest of this semester, for the study
OF POINTS OF *ontae' eS Dubois
A play "Evangaline'' will be given
tonight by the girls of the All Star
club of Beulah chapter, at the club
charge of the entertainment.
Margaret Mason writes the follow
ing from London about the newest
fad:
Watch your STEP may be watch
In the good old U. S. A.
But it's watch your wrist in Lon
! Where you pass the time of day
On every hand
Along the Strand,
Picca dilly or Kingway.
These are pulsing times in Eng
land Hence the wrist watch reigns
supreme. Every blooming Britisher
you meet has one up his sleeve They're
bound to hit-the States soon with an
awful wallop. Oh! yes; I know Harold
and Clarence and the rest of the big
many months. But over here it is
the big, brave, husky Johns that are
sporting the wristlet textbooks as well
as Cyril and Percival. 1t will prob
ably take a big, brave man to start
the fad in New York, too.
Like all the other new fashions
nowadays the present wristlet watch
is a result of the war. Unlike the
ajority of our fashions it has the
distinction of possessing useful, SEN
sible, necessary and, to say the least,
timely characteristics as we'll as tockS.
The watches with the luminous dial
night wear. Their hands are tipped
with phosphorus or radium as they
lightly call it over here, and Tommy
Atkins lying in the dark trenches in
of 6rac
by with leaden feet can now watch
them tick by with light hands. Every
fighting man wears one of these il
Illuminated and Illuminating wristlet
time pieces. They are part of his reg
ular kit and built according to army
specifications. They are neat, small,
unadorned affairs of silver, gun metal,
nickel or gold to suit your whims or
your pocketbook, and they are slipped
into the narrow, unobtrusive wrist
strap of leather which fastens as Sc
curely and inconspicuously as posi-
BILE. The straps of mouse gray, I'M
dressed leather are perhaps the most
popular well as the best looking
and you can become the proud possess
sor of one of these timely conceits for
as little as one pound or five dollars
of regular money.
Our American correspondents have
already succumbed to the alluring
charms of the wrist1et watch and are
bound to import them to our mas |
culine midst and forearms.
Truly the American man fighting
his battles in the marts of trade, ly-
ing in the trenches of Wall Street, |
needs a time limit on his pulse.
He ought to find one a great help
also in midnight tango encounters, |
cross dance hall canters and hesita- |
revel in a wrist watch. Think of the |
nice coy feeling it would give him to
realize that even his little watch is all
lit up, too.
Oh! the possibilities of the wrist
watch in the u. S. A. are unlimited.
Watch out for the American invasion
of the same. Hands across the sea
are all due to be duded up in timely
A bird of a wrist watch
on the hand is worth two in the
pocket. If you just once get the wrist
watch fever in your blood it's bound
to show on your pulse.
AS for the ladies, they are showing
wristlet watch effects that are most
artistic The most fascinating are
tiny platinum diamond studded af-
fairs, either square or heXagon in
bands of black MORE ribbon. These
are much more effective. than the
gold bracelet setting, although some
lovely things are shown in the metal
bracelet models. Especially exquisite
in this style are the enamelled effects
Grays, gobelin and mauVe shades are
mostly exploited in the enamel and
the black enamel in combinations
with white or with brilliants is very
smart for the ribbon set watches.
The narrow, Ova1-shaped wrist |
watches that we had last season In |
America are being used great deal |
over here now but the model that is /
wound up to the very last second of |
novelty and at the the same time sec /
ond to none is the tiny inch or inch |
and a half square platinum watch on
the wrist band of black MORE.
Infinitesimal watches set in finger |
rings are another recent offering, but |
as they are neither very pracltlcaI or
particularly beautiful they will I'M
doubted1y soon fold their tiny hands |
and turn their too wee open faces
to the wall of fashionable oblivion.
There is a limit to time reduction and
milady looking for good time doesn't |
want her minutes too minute.
T. i. j
Notes and Personal Mention.