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Show Sarah Bernhardt and Her I'lm. - Her costumes, as usual, are splendid, but some ulann is expressed in couturiere jstublishments at the total absence of any cutting out, or fabrication, lest ladies should tuko a fancy to such primitive primi-tive style of apparel. Several yards of material swathed round tho figure and fattened with pins without tho intervention inter-vention of a needle anywhere! A chorus of protesting voices declare that "cette Sarah" must be mad. On tho other hand, husbands and fathers admire and approve the economical innovation, with the idea of suppressing couturivre's bills. But even supposing the very improbable improba-ble adoption of such a simplified mode of attire, would not the coutnrieres be necessarily called in to arrange the pins and folds? What average woman could manage to coil yards and yards of clinging cling-ing material round her figure with any graceful result? What delicious sketches if middle aged, stout matrons in classical classic-al attire Leech would have drawn had he lived to hear of such things! It is said that in the days of the first Napoleon the painter Isabey would never allow hki wife to wear a ball dress like others, but himself pinned around her folds of gauze, intermingled with flowers, flow-ers, so as to produce a charming though peculiar effect. Ho was an artist, and might lie allowed gome privileges. Wo doubt, however, tho success of modern inartistic husbands if required to dress their wives with yards of gauze or chin crape and a paper of pins. Murray's Magaziue. |