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Show FOR WOMEN AND HOME j ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS : AND MATRONS. j Thins for Whirl, Vtamen An t rltl-rUd rltl-rUd Smart Vtslkinc j Afternoon HIoim. j j IHIIV IVKPXM'ItMr. "Kor incotj-Lteni y In drea, commend com-mend me to wonifn." said a man on her !adyh-.p rinln't se m worried, and so we toddled off toart iter she In her aolf rig and I looking ua :f I were going go-ing to a dame. Now. mustn't we bar presented a lovely sjwctacle? "She said she was too tired to dress that evening; but. Inamut h aa I had WD down town fn-m 9 in the morning nntil 6 at nicht hustling, and mill bad j stretifrtb to ret into my duds. I thought this tat a poor excuse- but I have been afraid to nay so until now." Bal- timore New. tllKT WAIKI. TlE. a street car during one of Friday's showers. He was looking at a girl on the. street who bad her long-tailed gown tucked snugly around her, revealing reveal-ing the frillies" of her white cambric petticoats. No doubt when the young woman started out these lace-trimmed flounces were crisp things of beauty; but the floods had descended meanwhile, mean-while, and now they were nothing less than sloppy a disagreeable but expressive ex-pressive word. The white skirt has really been quite conspicuous all during our modern deluge. del-uge. There were those who thought that the sex had so progressed that tbe wardrobe of even the humblest member of It boasted a rainy-day skirt; but thia 6lfl M 1 Dark blue serge trimmed with black . .. .. . l..,h t,ud with apparently is not so. and the long skirt and the white skirt have helped to absorb the water from the pavements pave-ments A Bight In Cool Wemther. On one of tbe coldest of the damp, raw days of last week a daring lady, who bad not the fear of pneumonia within her, apparently, appeared In the business section wearing a lawn frock with a yoke of lace so thin that at little distance she had tbe startling effect ef-fect of appearing decollete at high j noon. Those wearing topcoats looked at het In surprise, and a woman, snuggled snug-gled In a fur boa. regarded ber reproachfully. re-proachfully. But the cause of these glances felt no perturbation, for ahe was secure In the fact that the calendar calen-dar was with ber. even if the thermometer thermom-eter wasn't Almost every Rainy Daisy one sees nowadays wears irreproachable footwear foot-wear more fitted for dancing than for wading over Baltimore's sometimes nraia, reo miun ........ ,... --- white and gold cord and buttons; red sl.k celnture and vest. j Without even a bone left. Old Moth-' Moth-' er Hubbard couldn't have had a akele-ton akele-ton In the cloet. Whichever way you turn a new dollar dol-lar enables you to look on the bright side. ai-tkknoon ni.oite. submerged crossings. Patent-leather thin-soles shoes and the filmiest of openwork stockings form the footwear 0 Blouse of wnita embroidered linen, made up over rose taffeta. The fronts are rut with straps which confine the ends of the black velvet cravat. The odd collar is of the embroidery. bordered bor-dered with a ruffle ruf-fle of the plain ma-erial. ma-erial. Tbe sleeve bavo a plaiting let in on the outside at the bottom, to give tbe proper that mademoiselle elects to waia abroad in when J. Pluvlus is makinj himself felt A Xu Fiprews Himself. Another mere man expressed hlm-elf hlm-elf on the subject of feminine inconsistencies incon-sistencies In dross to the writer the other evening thus: "I was Invited to take a young woman to a concert the other evening." he aaid. "it was rather smart affair, and I wore evening dress', of course. Now. the young woman wo-man whom I was to escort Is usually beautifully clothed, but upon this even- ! Ing abe appeared In a cotton shirt wafst and rainy-day skirt I tried to hide my opera bat and appear uncon-.cious uncon-.cious of my expanse of shirt front But fulness, and then are gatherea into an ' odd. flaring cuff, fastened on the out-j out-j side with a little strap. Tbe wide 1 girdle ia of black velvet Wiener Chle. |