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Show THE STYLES PAIN THOMAS EDISON. Thomas A. Edison, the American Avizard, avIio is touring Europe in his auto, upon his arrival m Sprague, Bohemia, made a" short address ad-dress to a great croAvd that received him. He chose for his subject Avoien's dress. A press dispatch in part. says: '" Edison said he had been much struck byr the Austrian Avomen's use of flamboyant colors in their costumes. "Primary "Pri-mary colors in a toilet are a sign of an undeveloped sense," he commented. ' "The straight lines in the feminine dress Avorn today arc contrary to all acknoAvledged aesthetic Iiavs; a Avoman's skirts should boAV in curved lines from her hips. The fino proportion in mechanical things makes me intensely susceptible suscep-tible to the slightest deviation from classic form. I actually suffer through my sight. "Speaking of womnn's dress," Edison said a moment later," it is a cardinal law that the material of a woman's costume must not reflect light. "Beauty should reflect itself. Let it';wear sheenless .silks, dull satins, dull gold ornaments. PersQnalll', I love half tones and think black for blondes and white for brunettes bru-nettes alone set off pure types of beauty." Edison spoke of his visit to the Vienna zoo, Avhere he was highly interested in a species of monkey which, in his opinion, does away Avith any question of the missing link. He said the monkey's pointed ears reminded him of a certain degenerate type of human ears. He particularly dislikes .and distrusts indiAriduals Avho have such ears. "The monkey in us will out," he remarked, "even if only in one reverting feature like the monkev's ear." Edison is very susceptible to the slightest displacement of the normal human mouth. He feels a suspicion of anyone whose mouth cannot be equally divided bA' t line draAvn from the nasal cartilage of the nose; he avoids such people when he meets them. "There is something wrong with the human brain corresponding Avith something Avroug in tho . features," said he. "I believe science A-ill accurately read ' physiognomy in time m 'It Avill be a sad day for the deficient. I admit, but civilization civil-ization must be as merciless as nature herself. Society must develop; it cannot afford the toleration of degeneracy." IIMWI .. |