The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-17

place your toe Oh the plSShln1 Ln6n
you use all the weight of your leg-or
limb. as the case may be-kicker or
kickee-'
Its not dying an old maid that
| worries the girls, according to Miss
Blanche Weir. of the city hall, TT is
living one
Footwear for 1921 will show much
| elaboration, according to the Boot
and Shoe Recorder, in keeping with
| the increasing ornamentatton In dress.
with continued call for Iaces, beading
and brilliants, following the Slavic
note in fashion.
To every housekeeper heart a gift
of linen is among the most acceptable
offerings Of Santa Claus. Who should
worry over what to give mother or
wife, or the sweetheart who is filling
her hope box" when fine linens at
reasonable prices are awaiting pur-
chaserS at Warren NJ. Crosby's? Sug-
gestions from the linen department of
this shop would be the wonderful
filet, cluny or Madeira, work center
pieces, buffet scarfs, dresser scarfs
and luncheon sets.
Rather than becoming members of
the anti-cigaret league, many Topeka
girls are trying to find the location of
the bank in the city, which, it is stated
by L4lSS Lucy GdSS GdSlOH,
cigarets and smoking apparatus-even
a special room for smoking to women"
Just the right Christmas card for
the right person is not always easy to
| find. but those who buy their Christ
mas cards at Halls always come away
satisfied The Hall stock of Christmas
cards is no less than $4,000. Who
couldn't find the right card there ?
Exquisite hand colored cards, comic
messages, formal greeting cards-all
kinds are there.
Generous workers for charity affairs
will appreciate this incident overheard
in the Gadabout's rounds of the shops.
| A girl selling tickets for a benefit af-
fair received this reply from a pros
porous man:
I'm sorry. but my engagements
prevent my attending your charity en-
tertainm ent. but shall be with you in
spirit
splendid" the ticket seller said.
"And where would you like your spirit
to sit?"
Great longing was experienced for
the pretty, dainty quilted satin slip
when the Gadabout saw them in the
window at Payne's. What girl
| wouldn't feel like a princess with her
feet encased in soft rose colored satin
boudoir slippers? Maybe others
would feel more like a royal person in
blue satin ones. or in purple satin
| ones Anyway. Payne's suggest them
for Christmas gifts in any color. On
many a Christmas tree>there will be a
pair of cut steel or rhinestone slipper
buckles from Payne's, or maybe pair
of spats or high grade hosiery from
the same place.
A cynical observer watching the
antics of the younger set at dance
said there was nothing that the young
things resembled more than seals!
Particularly the young men of the
crowd, the cynic said, with their hair
Sticky combed, their elbows Tapping
at unnatural angles and their move
ments accomplished in a strikingly
seal-like manner.
Rows of Christmas card shoppers
are exclaiming over the originality and
| variety of the greeting card display
at Zercher's. II bought every card I
shall need at Zercher's in a half hour
| one elated customer reports. Indeed,
| one can buy almost all the gifts ones
| shopping list calls for at Zercher's.
| On nearly every list is a fountain pen,
and the -Gadabout reminds you that
Zercher's carry Waterman, Conklin
and Shaffer fountain pens.
An up-to-date magazine also has a
term for the young dancers of today.
''Rhapsodists" is the word, gathered
from the trippers' style of wrapping
themselves in each others arms!
What a comfort" thought the
| Gadabout as she settled in a corner
| at Stansfields drug store, ito find a
place like this where one can make all
Jones purchases in one shop" Don't
| overlook Candy Craft for Riddles, inn
ported perfumes, ivory toilet setsA van
ity compacts, incense burners. electric
appliances, and world of other gifts
at Stansfields.
The common opinion of men that
women spend too much time and
| thought on being individual in clothes
! and that they should dress uniformly
as men do, receives a setback, with the
views of William Faversham, in Elite
Styles, when he says: 81 think mems
clothes have been reduced to the zero
point so far as any imagination or pic
Lturesqueness is concerned. 1 always
I'hope that the idea of uniform cos
tunes for women will never go farther
than it has. 1 can not imagine more
dismal sight than to see women re-
duced to a system sartorially 1 like
to see women dressed in colors. !
think there is more personality shown
in the selection of color than in the
garment itself. Drab women wear
things Lively ones put life and glow
into their costumes"
A Young married man announces