| Show I 1 W tiar j ARE TOO THINLY CLAD new york newspaper voices protest against those In divid dividO bals who wear summer clochin clothing 9 when the snow flakes are flying in the air before another season of snow ice fee and bleak chilling winds begins it might be well rell to agitate the question of forming a society tor for the tion of cruelty to chilly persons it seems as if such a society had become a really crying need sensitive shivery folks have had their naturally uncomfortable sensa eions very much inc increased teased in the past winter by the antics of a rapidly grow ing band of individuals who wear sum mer garments all the year round whether they do this with the laud able idea of hardening their cons titu blons whether their they do it in sheer bravado or simply to attract attention it Is impossible to say but young men and sometimes men did enough to know better are often to be seen with out overcoats coats in the very coldest weather both men and v m omen of this cult go about with loscut low cut shoes and open work worl thread stollings sto staci clings ings the women s shoes with thin soles and french heels the women aiwas wear thin short jackets and no furs around the neck nothing but a silk stock with a she makes them all so cold large tulle bow which may be warm but doesn doean t look it the sight of one of these hardy crea tares tures will send cold chills running up and down the spine of a shivery per son which it taxes large vistas of rich ly fur wrapped folks to dissipate not long ago when the thermometer was ras at 2 above zero one ot of the chilly mortals after being almost petrified by a vision of airiness in a foulard silk skirt a light cloth jacket thin ties openwork silk stockings a tulle bow and a picture hat which merely perched itself upon her pompadour came the next moment on a spectacle which sent the warm blood coursing through his aellis again this spectacle was by way of con a young girl pretty and ably delicate for what did she wear with gentle grace and dignity but a be suppressed it t matter whether they feel warm or not they should be obliged to look warm too fortunately there is still a comfort able majority who enjoy the warm ap of furs and boots so there Is probably no danger of an other such freak of fashion as the french revolution introduced in eu du rope the rage for showing the shape was such that women were then led into the most absurd extravagance of 0 clinging draperies which they wore with thin slippers and bare shoulders and arms on the bitterest winter days 0 with the result that they died off like butterflies of the cold old there Is however a quaint and pretty story taken from a very ancient french manuscript which may point a moral for the occasion the writer of this manuscript was a norman knight who compiled a work for the use of his hi three young daugh about the close of the fourteenth century the elder of two sisters was promised by her father to a young knight of great estate the girls were bidden on a certain day to prepare 0 4 themselves to receive the youth who had as yet seen neither of them the affianced bride who was tar far the handsomer of the two was anxious to V show of her elegant shape and slender waist to the best advantage so she put on a cote hardie hardle at that time the very latest freak of fashion which fitted her like a glove without any biln ing or facing of fur though it was in winter and very cold the result was that she looked so pale pinched and blue that her beauty was all gone her sister had wrapped herself snug ly in a heavy fur lined mantle and looked warm healthy and as pink as a rose the young knight of 0 course promptly fell in love with the prudent sister and having the fath er s consent to the exchange heart lessly left the lady of the smart but unseasonable ablo costume to shil er in sin gle blessedness at the same time tite dear lady of the summery garment if this tale does not happen to fit your case and you can contrive to look ruddy and beau ticul though insufficiently clad please hood a real old fashioned hood such as were commonly worn in the as TOs made of cashmere edged around with fur and accented with smart ribbon bows ha I 1 that s the girl for my money said the chilly mortal wouldn t she warm the cockles of your heart I 1 remember well when they wore were those things and they always looked charm ing in them too these creatures that go abol abot t in freezing w ather rith iab scarcely clothe enough on for a cool suni mtr r should remember that it makes some folks very blue to see you so and try to re form before another winter comes says the new york sun make a be ginning on the ties and openwork stockings at least D sch arged himself an amusing story Is told of a young scotch lad who in a very quiet de ter mined way ray made his exit from a house in which he had been but a lit tie tle while installed as a domestic help he had been told that he would be dismissed it if he broke any of the china under his charge on the morning of a great dinner party he was In trusted rather rashly with a great load of plates which he was to carry upstairs from the kitchen to the dining room and which were piled UD un on his two hands in going upstairs his toot foot slipped and the plates were broken to atoms U 0 k A warmth win he at once went to the drawing room put his head in at the door and shouted the plates are a smashed and I 1 m awa I 1 |
