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Show lire of New Vork'a Literary Women. Tho litorary woman of the pant was called a blue stocking. The literary woman wo-man of the present is a butterfly in dress. Tho gayest of colors, the richest of decoration, dec-oration, the extreme of tho mode characterize charac-terize her ottiro ut the gatherings of Sorofis. where the literary element strongly predominates, and one is ira-1 pressed by tho brilliancy of the spectu- cle. The president, Mrs. Clymer, is as ; picturesque in her attire hh she is dignified digni-fied in her manner. Souio combination of heliotrope und gray, with just a touch I of yellow, make her seem like the original orig-inal of some quaint old painting. Jennie Jen-nie June, now that she h;u laid osids her widow"s weeds, appears in light golden brown dresses and mantles, wita a nonnet in tue same huuuh, tnmmtxl with creamy lace. Mrs. Dr. Lozier surprises every one with a new toilet at every Sorusis meeting meet-ing as beautiful an 1 dressy us the paper pa-per she reads is brilliant and unusual. Mrs. Collis, the Alaskan traveler and writer, is a very handsome and effective dresser. Mrs. Ravenhill (Katherine Kidder's Kid-der's grandmother and teacher) is as dainty and dressy in her attire an a girl, and the younger members, who do duty as nshers, among whom little Miss Dem-orest Dem-orest takes the lead, are as stylish as they are courteous. Even Grace Greenwood's Green-wood's dear motherly face was shadowed shad-owed by a bird with moat brilliantly gorgeous yellow plumage all one winter. win-ter. New York Letter. |