Show WHEN BIG SLEEVES GO there will ba many when we see oar friend aadu much interest attaches to the rumor which comes from london that the princess of wales and her daughters have been lately seen in public in gowns with small sleeves and narrow skirts remarks the san francisco argonaut this bit of intelligence does not necessarily cinch the doom of the balloon sleeves and the letter A skirts but it will tend to make prudent investors wary of locking up much capital in those vanities of course the balloon sleeves mast go presently when fashionable mothers began to put them on little boys legged nightgowns night gowns it became apparent that the taste for them had come to be an extravagance and could not last but it will be a shock to miss them doubtless we will find our friends much changed when we get down to their real selves again some who have grown stout will not shrink as much as we expect and others who wore away in the hard times perhaps will shrink much more but let us have the facts at any cost especially as there must be material enough in the present sleeves and skirts to cut over into anything conceivable and have enough left over to clotha a child |