| Show GIRLS AND THEIR WAYS New Style of Locomotlon he Dawdline Girls Girls and Hairpins m Two girls were walking down the avenue the other day says the Washington Post I bet that is a New Yorker Hasnt she got the silk walk down to a fine r point said the taller and darker of the two girls What do you mean by silk walk Why Alico havent you noticed the way all tho girls are walking now and that lovely rustling sound Oh pshaw anybody can have that who has a silk foundation to her skirts Indeed they cant then Your dress is made up on silk and I cant hear a sound No youve got to have on a silk lining and a silk petticoat too I was wild for one and when I found I couldnt afford itthey were 20 and 301 almost cried until I thought of an old silk dress I had and Ive got it on now But they dont makoa bit of noise unless you wriggle your knees a sort of corkscrew motion like this And the taller and darker of the two girls wriggled her way down the avenue so successfully and with such a rustle of silk that an old colored woman put down her basket of clothes and gazed after her say ingDat Dat young lady satnly gwine to tear dat dress ter pieces ef she dont walk mo stiddy I rLUlFY GIRLS A young man speaking of a girl to a matron of his acquaintance recently said Oh shes one of these fluffy girls My dear boy said the matron what on earth is a fluffy girl Why dont you know replied the I II young man A girl who has blue eyes golden hair brilliant coloring and looks like a bit of Dresden china A girl who is always hitched up in a big armchair ands ha and-s a plaintive little tale of woo to confide to younot to you my dear madam but tome to-me to some man The girl who wears charming gowns all frills and ribbons and hopelessly intricate to masculine eyes who is always delightfully clean with fresh curled hair who affects certain perfumes has curious gestures and modes of expression expres-sion who wears tinkling ornaments at her wrists and quantities of rings on her fingers who abounds in parasols fans and shawls which we men carry trailing humbly about in her wake This is the fluffy girl and my dear lady long experience experi-ence with her has taught me that she usually possesses a temper as fluffy as her gown OIULS AKD HAIRPINS Hairpins are not jewelry theyre hairpins hair-pins And hairpins as every woman knows are the most necessary adjuncts to feminine mechanics in all tho world Prop erly speaking hairpins are tools A oman can do anything with a hairpin except ex-cept churn butter and play on a snare drum She can pick a lock and cut tho edges of her magazine she can anchor her back hair and affix her signature with one She can rouse her sleeping lord in church I and mend her umbrella with this little engine en-gine With one hairpin and plenty of womens intuition very likely she could run an ocean steamship |
