| Show THE SPRING GIRL She Enjoys the Season and in Her Own Way TENNIS QUOITS AND CRICKET Spring Shopping Horseback RIdIng a Most Favorite AmusementThe Fencing Craze is Languishing Spring in the city There are certain infallible in-fallible signs which mark its advent When the shop windows substitute Easter novelties for silver mounted prayer books when the small boy on roller skates begins to cause panics on every street corner when the babies and the nurses multiply in the parks then spring is here The open carriages appear advertisements for summer hotels crowd the Sunday papers T1 ijJ 7 rYTEI t BENT OX SPRING SHOPPING the artists begin to get ready for the academy the sporting youth looks tip his fishing rods and flies and guns and the fashionable girl goes shopping The windows are really dreams of beauty and the young woman squeezes an unusually large check out of papa before she ventures on her campaign She hasher has-her gowns this season of the palest shades of yellow gray tan and heliotrope very trying unless her complexion is perfect The new gloves she declares hideous but she buys them just the same The most brilliant colors of mahogany green purple and yellow heavily stitched with black and calculated to increase the size of the hand most materially are worn Hats ah there is where a girl can indulge her own taste Every possible shape is shown The crowning ornament is a small jet or tinsel serpent coiled among the ribbons and laces We have Davenport and Bern bards the rival Cleopatras to thank for that and xvrmftarfnllrr and TinriMlVIv Hf KLn the reptiles are Young women who would go into hysterics at the sight of a garter snake on the lawn sail bravely down the avenue wearing on their heads cobras and adders hideous enough to make a hunter quail The most beautiful beauti-ful things shown this year are the parasols Made of gauze of crepe and of point lace it is easy to see that if a girl expects to buy one for each costume she will need another check In colored silk with Dresden china handles they come not quite so high and are very fetching One novel handle I is of natural wood say cherry with a few flowers clinging to it One more new thing attracts the shopping shop-ping young lady the shoulder cape Every woman one meets wears it and it is j I a great relief from the ubiquitous jacket I Every possible variation in cut and in ornamentation or-namentation is shown but the color is almost al-most always black gray or tan I IW I m f t1L1 L i I I i I THE ATHLETIC GIRLS Horseback riding takes a new impetus with the approach of warm weather Tho riding schools are out in full force every morning and the highways and bridle paths are crowded daily The American city girl distinctively tailormade and nowhere no-where and at no time does she appear to better advantage than when well mounted and trotting briskly along under the budding bud-ding trees in the spring sunshine The riding masters are beginning to advocate the divided skirt When mounted on aside a-side saddle of coursethe general aDD ar ance is the same and the safety of the rider in case of a fall is greatly increased Happiest of all in the sDring is the atb letic girlshe who belongs to a gymnasium gymna-sium All winter she has been in training and is now in perfect trim for the outdoor games in which she delights The very swellest maidens belong to athletic clubs and the crowds that go out every warm morning from New York to the Berkeley Oval just south of High Bridge are as select se-lect as those which attend the Patriarch and Assembly bills Tennis and cricket are womens favorite spring games everywhere every-where though an effort is being made to revive the once popular archery Quoits is good very graceful and not at all trying to delicate constitutions It requires moro skill than strength to throw the thin iron disks and there is something classic and poetical about the sport Wednesdays the ladies of the Berkeley club at New York have the use of the boat a splendid barge with places for six rowers and room for six extra people Up and down the Harlem river tho strong young Amazons pull their glittering craft The fencing craze seems to languish with the approach of warm weather It is too violent even for rainy days when tennis is impracticable Bowling is still indulged in The cellar is always cool even on the hottest days and the exercise is always delightful de-lightful Taken all in all the athletic girl is more to my taste than the Ibsen or the Browning or the slumming or tho shopping girl RIIETA LOUISE CHILDE |
