Show CERULEAN GARMENTS Men Ien Invariably Succumb the Precious I flue Garments Manners may make the man but clothes and manners make the woman Who will say that a charming manner Is not made to seem more charming when a woman is garbed daintily and becomingly There is many an old beau of the yesterday who remembers day to-day the blue dress of the girl he once once once-If if not still still believed believed to be the personification of all that was loveliness loveliness loveliness loveli loveli- ness in womanhood says a writer In Inthe inthe inthe the St St. Louis Republic The gown somehow as he remembers It it seemed to be part of the dainty maid At any rate he never falls fails to associate her with It Speaking of the blue dress somebody has said of It it Of or all the arts and wiles which the Ingenuity and skill of woman have devised there is probably nothing which so enraptures the animal man as does the latest freak of fashion the blue dress The idea was copied from the novelist because no well-regulated well and eminently proper heroine was ever er known to swirl through the pages of a society novel unless she was arrayed in garments of heavenly blue So far the scientists have been unable to explain the chromatic chromatic chromatic chro chro- matic influences and laymen should certainly hesitate to undertake an explanation explanation explanation ex ex- of so abstruse a question but the fact remains that garments of blue exercise a peculiar Influence upon the sterner sex sea I do not know how altogether altogether altogether alto alto- gether true the last statement is but it Is IB a fact fact Isn't isn't that it-that that the charmIng charming charming charm charm- ing blue gown Is treasured In many a memory I 1 do not believe It Is simply because It was so dainty so pure look ing and so generally becoming If a girl thinks she can be attractive and be a dowd in dress then let her see seea a romantic drama in which the actresses actresses actresses ac ac- tresses are dressed Indifferently Somehow Somehow Somehow Some Some- how one can never associate romance with a gown that does not fit or is of ofa ofa ofa a horribly unbecoming color Next In Importance after a sweet and refined manner come becoming clothes A Aman Aman Aman man may not know whether a gown is after the latest and smartest mode but buthe buthe buthe he does know In a minute whether Its color is becoming and Its general air dainty And so to the good advice of ot the wise matron to the girl who would be charming let me add this If you have lost your heart and would win another In return wear Just as pretty frocks as your pocketbook can afford If you have but one best dress make it as attractive as you can with fresh laces and ribbons and know that a woman however naturally charming is only at her best when she Is conscious of being becomingly dressed |