The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-21

man that she loved the best. and the
woman she hated the worst.
Mrs. Atchison advocated becoming
and suitable wearing apparel, saying
what is very true, that no woman can
do herself justice if conscious OF being
shabbily or inappropriately gowned
among we'll dressed women.
The question of personal adornment
and the desire for beauty is not con-
fined to the feminine gender by any
means If so, why should the college
chappies undergo the torture of hav-
ing their eyebrows plucked out to
conform to the latest in eyebrows?
1t will not be surprising one day to
see women with their heads shaved
and men wearing rings in their noses.
They wear them anyway, figuratively
speaking, and the outward manifesto
ton may come any time.
At this luncheon before referred to
one woman. who may be misan-
thrope. for all anybody knows. made
the statement that only the very rich
can afford to be independent in the
matter of dress Cor anything else, she
might properly have added.
But hear what man writes on this
subject. Never say again that men
take no note of styles for women.
This is an extract from a personal
and confidential letter from Lieut.
Pink Wingert He would probably
be proud and glad to know that he
had broken into the society column as
an authority on dress. but he is too
far away to say so. He writes:
This is to be dissertation on hats
and things. 1t will not be technical.
Just one of those impressions you get
in travelling in different countries.
When 1 was in Germany last week
the contrast between the Boche styles
for women's hats and those of the
French was most noticeable. L could
not keep from remarking to the other
officers who were with me on the
streets of Coblentz and Cologne about
the difference. In spite of yourself
you would find your lips forming some
such sentence as this:
Now isn't that about the crudest
looking hat you ever saw on a woman.
Where do these German women carry
their taste? In their feet"
Look. Here comes a German girl
with a grey felt hat. half derby effect
with big bow of ribbon right in front.
She looks like she were carrying a
bundle on her head like the colored
women of the south. And here is an
other. Her oVer-colored red face-aS
rule the women of Germany do not
use much rouge; their faces are nat
urally reds surmOunted by an old
rose colored hat as ungainly looking
as the woman herself. Not more than
half block down the street you can
see that woman with a new Easter
creation. 1t is of green straw and built
with a square effect. something after
the architecture of a brick house.
Quite becoming, n'est-ce pas? Yes,
just about as becoming as that light
pink dress she is wearing.
The German delegates to the peace
conference are arriving in Paris these
days and with them are scores of
stenographters and clerks. many of
them women. The French, who are
quick to admire beauty and taste in
dress, have agreed that some of them
may pass muster at the beauty shop
but say that they all are "miserably
| dressed" They must appear terribly
awkward and uncouth to the French
man who has been used to seeing the
| tasteful creations that adorn the be-
witching Parisiennes, The average