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Show KiikHkIi Women's Taste. Nowhere in tho world can so many handsome, tasteful women be seen us in London during the season. Of course some are foreigners, and Americans are generally among the most attractive, and it must be remembered that the British kingdom sends its fairest flowers to town at that time; but. the fact remains that many English women know how to dress well. Nor i;i it. true that small feet are an American monopoly. The model of Lady Hi Hand's foot is one of tho attractions attrac-tions of Holland House. Sho is not alone in her beauty. English women have been careless in ihe matter of shoes, and shoes make a deal of difference ill the appearance ap-pearance of feet. What 1 like in the English in that they can't bo bullied out of their convictions. Morris, Xlosselti, liuskin begin a crusade Against the Philistines, against stupid ugliness, against blind adoration of conventionality. con-ventionality. Women join their ranks ; mid attempt to make poetry out of millinery. mil-linery. Some of their efforts are very j ridiculous, but ont of these efforls have 1 come Oainesboro hats and charmingcos- t nines, malting the wearers look like fascinating fas-cinating old pictures instead of fashion plates. For the first time England is exercising ex-ercising an influence upon France. -Ksthetioism includes too much beauty to lw ignored, and Parisian modistes are taking lessons of their .despised neighbors. neigh-bors. If I were asked which women today to-day had the more taste in dress, Ameri-i Ameri-i can or English, I should say tho English. because they are beginning to think, and era striving to be individual. In the chaff of affectation there is the grain of I an honest ideal. Kate Field's Washington, |