The Topeka state journal., 1919-06-21
SIGHTS AT CAGE.
Girl Swimmers Not Handi-
capped by Their Clothes.
Topeka Sees Her Young Women
just as They Are.
BAR FALSE FIGURES IN LAKE
Many Bathing Suits Could Be
Made From Handkerchiefs.
Swimming Modern Way Calls
for New Styles.

On the diving board a figure is
poised. The Gage park swimming au-
dience gazes with admiration. Clad
only in trunks, the man prepares his
supple muscles for the dive. No., by
jove! 1t isn't man. No one of the
male species ever possessed such a
gentle contour of figure n everything.
1t is a girl, and by the time you catch
your breath in order to give her the
once-over, she dives into the pool, and
is swallowed up by the water:
The scenery at Gage park every eve
ming is quite rare and attracts hun
dreds of autoists who park their cars
by the swimming lake and watch the
men. women and children frolfc in the
water. The far famed beaches at Ven
ice. Cal. and other Pacific coast re-
sorts where symmetrical forms are
clad as near like September Morn as
the law allows, have nothing on Gage
park.
Think of Venus de Milo,
Imagine Venus de Milo convention
ally attired in pair of rainbow col
ored trunks that can be slipped thru
ring, diving off the bank into the
cool, green waters of the lake. OF
course. Venus, imprisoned as she is by
the cold, drab walls of the Louvre, can
but there are plenty of young women
in Topeka who are just as handsome
as the beauty of Milo. On Kansas
avenue, even tho dressed In the height
of fashion. many of them do not look
so beautiful, but in the Gage park
swimming pool, they appear exactly as
designed by the Creator.
No false figures can get by in
the lake. Here Topeka sees its young
women as they are. 90, La, La! And
many of the boys thought the Boule-
ward des Italiene had the stuff The
Gage park swimming costumes would
make the rouge checked mademoi-
selles of Paris take a back seat in the
circus and stay there. Never in their
palmiest days did the modistes of that
city deck any one out with the scarce
ness that is popular among the Topeka
bathers.
Use Red Handkerchicfs.
Some of the, costumes. it is said,
are made out of red bandana hand
kerchiefs, or cloth of that dimen-
sions The girls can easily put their
swimming outfits in their handbags
and still have room for their powder
puffs, car fare, scissors, nail file, that
last letter from John, check book
automobile key. house key, chocolate
fudge, a problem" novel, and few
other incidentals that can always be
found in the average girls handbag
A group of Topeka women were
discussing this the other night.
81 may be old fashioned" said one
but 1 think it's disgra ceful. Why
those girls 1 saw last night might as
we'll have been in their own bath tubs
at home"
Swimming Different Now.
You're dead wrong, Maggie" said
another one. Cant you realize thai
it's nearly impossible to swim nova
days with a lot of 6uds on. These
girls are just being comfortable. WHY
shouldn't they wear trunks that only
lack sixteen inches of covering tht
knee cap if the men do?"
THE men do a lot of things thai
we are not supposed to do" and with
this parting shot, the conversation
changed to the rumor that next falF'
hats will be trimmed with scrambled
eggs a la mode and that pink rose'
will adorn the stockings or socks O
tie ladies after the naughtily pointet
| arrow goes out of style.
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