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Show u NOT VERY ELEVATING; THIS I Is it impossible for women to fink1! their toilettes except in public and before the eyes of men? Go into any public gathering of women, and the vulgar practice of making a dressing-room dressing-room of a public auditorium inimc-Idiately inimc-Idiately starts in. One woman's hands invariably go to her hair, and cither she extracts a sidb-comb and begins to -comb some stray locks, or she re arranges her hairpins. Another starts to fasten her placket; a third twists hgr arm to the back of her waist and begins to fasten a recreant button. The hook- at tlic back of a collar :s the goal of another; the back of .a belt is the point of attack of her sister. sis-ter. And so it goes, while men in variably sit by and wondcringly ask: Why don't these women finish their dressing (before they appear in public? It is not -very elevating, this habit to which women arc all too prone: this constant calling of public attention 1 1 the mystery of how "a woman is put together." ' " -o- |