| Show Lli ii ilv I I I Bab TaKes a LooK III 41 I 1 I t TJI if r 111P I 41 At tlCl Sbop Wildows 4 I I I li4 r i ii Copyright 169M ii Always about this time of year Big I IN shop windows are filled with the most I I remarkable of white garments while I 11 the newspapers are filled with advertisements II 1111 i adver-tisements of what they call cheap un II I bI detwear but which IB I more elegantly referred to by the saleswomen us fine I f l J lingerie 11 Whether H la that the hiding 1 I coue das reform un lerKarment Is I KO I J fit I ing out of fashion anti this has brought I I it d i I all these abominations to the fore or I 11 l I the I shopkeeper I appreciating that a I I itl li t III I reaction has set In has concluded that I 4 IT he had better get rid of all this old i 1 1 1 tua 0 r what nobody exactly know ti I Jg 16 A I I I but It 19 I certain that sonic of he mot I Ii1J y o hideous things are displayed and un tt 4 2 It doubtedly some deluded women will buy I I 1ih J them What tlo I mean by hideous f things Plaltlngs ruffled with aborr 1 W 7I 4 I I nations In the shape of hamburg edging I ilh and overfrllled bits of clothing that < 0 I 1 would ruin the figure of Venus really I I 1 I Jh If I the uual ort 01 trash that appears I I x I I 4 a J every year about this time and yetI I yet-I ke It which Is always a surprise It Is funny I I j Which manlovely man faithful man 1 tthletlc I man has talked and preached I 1 Bad had pictures printed 1 In the newspapers I I news-papers of what womap should wear I As th he kntwl One group t lt1 new which I bore the signature of a well Un6virs artist represented na necessary for a woman nine of the most diabolical i hf ted I garments that the eye of the printer I devil II ever i rested tipoll i Now I am not tt t fvc I a reformer but I have had conaldera i 1 his experience and In n tolerably long I and rather varied life I have never met I I In N oman who wore nine pieces 01 m I Iderwear at one time Marling with the fact that ones petticoat has a firm i foundation aa firm as Plymouth rock I I c I and much better shaped the average woman In good health need only wear 1 < first a somewhat lone atilt lindenest I Ir stacking of course Plays and If she d Is Inclined to be chilly I and has a tendency I I toward rheumatism u well cut and not I cumbersome flannel petticoat with the one or two pieces of nainsook that are displayed In the shop windows but I which are seldom I talked about The petticoat may be of silk or may bo of moreen butlt Is never white for street wear With your heavy cloth skirt you j I need a stiff moreen Petticoat that It may be properly held out but thero la I no use burdening oneself with a lot I of unnecessary underwear to oblige the stupid shopkeepers A woman walks I I well and easily when she has not got on a lot of starchy underwear and the line of beauty shows to much better advantage than when she Is ovcrruf 1 fid and has strings and belts cutting her because she ties no stays on und la I I altogether flurried and fiat looking I The human form divine especially the female edition of It does come In 11 I for an awful lot of discussion The 4 line of a womans figure la talked I about ho r with the unction of Dumas while any or every where one la liable to lace n I I picture of Venus nnd It Is I quite possible to tumble elite her In plaster on i the sidewalk lnncy wearing ouch drn perle ns Venus worel Why you lould have to put heavy Iron weights In them which would make them bang against your knees and you would sit on them 1 1a ad be wretched and would find your I VC I IV q ell wishing that Venus had staid In I the sea and been comfortable But It Is I queer how Ibo people who are sup posted 10 cultivate the mind or the soul I or the brain or whatever Is the thinkIng think-Ing Part 01 > people are continually both I crlng about a loman frills and frivols I She must bo rather a nice woman and I dont know what Induced her to mrite 10 me but aha asked evidently I In an sincerity Do you think skirts vIII be llre this year or If I thought n mall hoopskirt would obtain Personally Per-sonally I have always dreaded the hoopskIrt I never uoro one and I dont believe I would ever learn to Mn trot one 1 11 sure that I could never sit on It correctly that It would fiare I where It oughtnt to and give me a I I generally ridiculous appearance Then too as I have Il very feminine weak Ee for high heels I should probably I put my foot In It and the flying woman wo-man cold describe mo as I como down stairs I know a man whose favorite fa-vorite story la I telling how a huge rat got caught In his mother hoopsklrt It 18 a story that strikes awe to Jhe fem nine hart though the feminine brain refuses to accept It and tile feminine mind think that the man Is telling a i tarn Fashion writers that Is people who write histories 01 fashion learned pea pltae puma to may In describing hoopsklrts that they are dignified In effect Perhaps they are but to produce pro-duce a dignified effect In one a woman of about o feet would be required No I may till the pleasant little woman who wrote that I do not think wires or flte hoopsklrts will be worn Women have I been looking too well lately to care to make any great change lnthelr appearance appear-ance The cloth skirt lilting the figure evenly and easily and the handsomely trimmed b < lIce make not only n smart get up but one that Is useful The reason I like the tailor made frock Is I that I believe It to be an Incentive In-centive to cleanliness Any KlrC who wears one likes to have her skin look as white an possible tier hair as tidy anti knowing that her boots show as she walks she does not permit an unoccupied un-occupied buttonhole nor Is I she satisfied with a broken tare tied Into a knot She Is I particular about her gloves and I It she wears any white linen It la Immaculate Im-maculate Fashions may come and fashions may go but the wise woman will retain a smart looking cloth gown for street wear because there are n I hundred good reasons for It and not a single one against It Ity Ihe bye the letter writing lady also asked something some-thing else She wanted to know Do you think a decollete bodice Immoral That depends I believe that with a Ion bodice the neck should be white and well shape and that the frock should < be cut to that the neck and shoulders show modestly A Woman may write Sanskrit and speak Creek she may be at the head of a iyclcty for the elevation of wo mm In Africa nnd she may know the finest line of differmo between furniture furni-ture made In the time of Louis Qulnze and that achieved In the century before but If she hasnt sense enough to know Just how much 01 hr neck and about ders Bile should display she In I an Ignorant Igno-rant as the youngest baby In the house A womans arms round white firm and well formed are delights and n womans throat well shaped and nhlte Is I n marble column supporting the head above It 1 which la I presumed to hold n umclent amount 01 brains to hint to the world at large that the owner own-er known enough to show that world only u hat n Modest woman would wish It to see Modesty Is I abut great virtue a-but t It Is a complex one There are many absolutely modest women and sonny who are so Immodest that one feels shamed to even belong to the same sex I dont think It Is quite right to hear women talk of their miseries and the manner In which they are being treated to the world at large and yet women do It I dont think It ti I quite modest to gush over ones friends In public Friendship Is I an exquisite plant but It Is I one which can be easily killed and If you want It to be fresh and beautiful beauti-ful nnd a Joy In your life then you must protect It from the vUlgar ee I dont think It Is I quite modest to roll whoever you may be fond of by pot names before other people In fact between you and me I dont think It Is I quite modest to let the world nt large pee ones Inner feelings You need nt cultivate a horrible frigidity of manner but you can be a little reserved served I said mo1sty was complex and it 1 Is I The modest woman In I the ono who wears her heart where the dome cannot can-not peck at It and who i keep hr own affairs to herself She Is I the oman who d snt talk loudly In public and who unt overdress Modesty does not cover It simply doe not recognize the existence 01 some sins There are women who are exquisitely modest n8 the angels women who could putout put-out their hands and lift up that other woman who has fallen and never t1 that they were soiling the tips of their lingers The modest woman Is I the charitable char-itable one for charity and purity are twin sisters 11 t I 1 I |
