Show well dressed women if it be a fact as an english per recently stated that the literary women of england dress badly the charge does not hold true of our american female writers there was a time when a literary w m was associated with oddness of A ws larga shoes and short hair that has however gone out of fashion only recently I 1 was at a public gathering where some twenty literary women had congregated As I 1 looked over the body from an elevation I 1 was convinced that the most fastidious coald wish for no better display of taste in dress simple gowns were the anle but their fit in several instances was such as to draw forth individual comment from members of my party who had always thought that literary women dressed badly some of the best dressers today in new york are literary women and a fashionable comans womans tailor not long ago told me that his best and most tasteful customer was a popular authoress if literary women in england dress badly as has been stated their american sisters differ from them materially new york cor chicago herald |