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Show (New York Letter.) This is the season of the year when every woman becomes a law unto herself her-self in the affairs of the toilet, and the power that at other times dictates the very set of one's necktie and height of one's heels is set at naught or defied or forgotten. What every daughter of Eve struggles strug-gles to attain Is comfort, let the sacrifice sacri-fice to looks be what it will. Of course, where comfort' and beauty go hand In hand content supreme holds reign and Diana goes a cream colored grass hat with a scarf around it, and white wash leather shoes are the coverings of her nimble little feet Her shoes, by the way, are quite waterproof, with a specially treated silk lining to shut out the damp, beside be-side having rubber soles, and nowadays nowa-days nine out of ten golf playing women wom-en wear palm protectors. These are gloves that fit like the sandal shoon of yore. The palms and one-half the inside of the fingers are sometimes these elements do combine to charming effect. For Instance, the golfing girls have got It into their aspiring little heads that there is nothing like exercise "in the morning, 0, so early!" when the air is cool and the grass wet and the prospect of sunrise and a sharp breakfast break-fast appetite quite glorious. Then she wears, this fashionable early worm, a skirt of khaki brown serge speckled over with black or darker dark-er brown dots, and with this not a shirt of percale, but of wash flannel. This is supposed to keep out the malaria ma-laria microbe, if there is one in the covered with a fitted piece of stout kid that is hardened with a rosin preparation prepara-tion to ensure the grip. The piece of kid is made fast to the hand, either by straps running across the back or a perforated back of linen that has no weight and supplies perfect per-fect ventilation. Thus arrayed, is it any wonder that the enterprising modish athlete loves to hail the rising sun from some lofty tee, and at the first hint of heat in the air tramps home to eggs and bacon ba-con and absorbs melons and toast and tea in the most surprising quantities. This is the same type of fashionablf I THE WATERPROOF RAINY-DAL GIRL . (Who Never Fails to Take Her Early Morning Constitutional.) air, and it is an uncommonly pretty garment when made and worn in the right way. Around the neck of the shirt a silk handkerchief is knotted. If the morning morn-ing is peculiarly hot, or a white pique stock folding over the chest like a coachman's plastron takes its place, and absorbs the moisture of honest toil. Often as not the muscular maiden rolls hT shirt sleeves to her elbows, for in the morning there is no sunburn to be feared, and a pair of fine, round white arms is always a goodly sight On the head of this indomitable girl as the damsel who never puts oft her morning walk because of a trifling matter of rain. She is warranted waterproof, wat-erproof, and if you wish to see her In all her impervious perfection you must go up in the woods to camps or to the shores of the St. Lawrence. Her Bhoes are made by the men who manufacture golf sticks and bags. , The leather of them Is weatherbeaten by a special ' process and the sketch that shows her in a storm shows how frankly ' unbecoming, useful and serviceable serv-iceable and comfortable her shoes, laced nearly half way 'to her 'knees, ' are. j |