The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-14


1t always make me so.
New York, April 14.-AI hail, gem
tie spring.
This is the joyous season of the year
when the amorous robins and the
blue birds for happiness wake you at
a. m. as they burble under the win
dow sill. These are the nights when
you toss off the extra Counterpart
and wake in the morn with a cold in
The head and an extra counter pain in
your chest.
These are the happy days when the
Amalgamated Union of Janitors turns
OH the steam heat prematurely and
you have to affect the cumb rous
draperies of your eiderdown bathrobe
on top of your customary garments
around the frosthitten menage.
IheSe are the pleasant mealtimes
when you struggle with the offspring
TO get them to consume sufficient
Quantities of rhubarb sauce, spinach,
dandelion green's and other healthful
first fruits of spring against which
their childish souls and tummies re-
volt.
Being offspring perhaps accounts
for their being off spring vegetables.
These are the intoxicating after
moons when the shop windows get full
of all the fascinating frills and furbe-
lows and frivolities that go to female
heads. The little birds are on the
wing and the little wings are on the
nat If only the spring bonnets knew
now to use their many wings they
would certainly fly away a la the little
birds. As it is it is only their prices
that soar. Truly, fine feathers make
Zine hats this spring, for almost every
tuFban, poke, mushroom, sailor and
stoVepipe shape that isn't beaded is
abr1stle with wings. Some of them
are both beaded and winged at that.
Hats aren't the only things in the
shop windows that go to the female
headS, however, as there are the stun
ming spanish back combs of tortoise
shell, amber, demi-amber and carved
Jet. Wonderfully artistic and allur-
ing they are and every woman is i'm
mediately bitten with a desire to pos
sess one as soon as she tries their
teeth in her topknot.
Like Dutchmen's breeches, violet,
dogwood and all the spring flowers
the fashionable growths in the spring
shop windows are prone to have as
ephemeral an experience. They enjoy
brief popularity and then vanish
like the crocus, to be glimpsed no
more this year
1 am wondering if the exuberant
new waistcoats of rainbow hued jersey
silk are doomed to so tickle a fling
Most maZingly colored are they in
broad Roman stripes of orange, emer-
aid green, purple and scarlet. They
are stunning for we, with the new
agented as successors to the ubiquitous
sweaters.
| rather fear the existence of the
divers hued waistcoats will be fleet
ing. however. since all of their colors
are guaranteed fast. Speaking of brill
liant colors, we are due to have n
perfect riot of them on hands this
spring if we are to judge by the way
The glove fingers point. Talk about
handpainted: well our hands will GER
tainly look painted when they don the
new sport gloves. Their lower sides
are of wash kid in the most hectic of
hues and their backs are of glove silk
in equally hectic matching tint or
contrasting tone. They will look
handpainted if they don't look as If
something had dyed on our hands.
Royal palms may well be dubbed the
hands that are covered with the royal
purple gloves with orange silk backs.
Nerdant palms will be those of emer-
aid green backed with Chinese blue.
White gloves with black silk backs and
vice versa are especially smart in these
DAYS wnen black and white is such
winning combination, but the bright
colorS run pretty close for favor. When
the kid underpart of the glove is in
the same brilliant color as the silk
back instead of being a contrast the
stitching on the back in an OFF color
relieves the mOnOtOny.
Just fancy group of foreign born
charmers a the polo match. the golf
club or the race course indulging in
an animated conversation i'll which
hand gesticulation PLAYS such i'm
portant part Thus gloved their wav
ing palms are bound to have all the
colorful and shifting effect of
kaleidoscope.