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Show USING THE LONG MIRROR BY LUCILLE DAUDET. NE secret of how a woman may-make may-make a smart appearance on a small income is revealed in the following letter from one who has observed some of the infln-nesimal infln-nesimal but vital things that constitute consti-tute good dressing Shesavs: "Much has been said about a woman's duty to dress well. I heartily agree that It is a woman s obligation to herself to make her array as attractive as possi- friends, her profession, and to her husband, hus-band, when she gets him. This doesn't mean a lot of clothes and money Many a poor girl with one good look- ;?h:UrfgarmCnt i' ovor' the nch one for smartness. It j3 general appearance that count,, and that con- 1, 818 OI nue OetHilB. Here is a secret of one of the smartest girls In town She is a school teacher, bankine some of her salary and contributing o her family support. So you see bUe has little for clothes. Her dressmaker bills have to be small; she makes hr own hats. Yet abou her costume there is always , delightful completeness! i Jh,n K lrl'S room' between two light windows, there hangs on the wall a most to the base board, a mlrrorTour feet long and about two wide A is one of the first things the gin 'bought fhdollU1 4 "Every time she makes her toilette that young woman sees herself fun length as others see her. She ge s her general effect from head to sole Kel whether her outline is harmonious or choppy. Her full length mirror has shown her what lines are becoming to her and what are not, where herfltrur will stand cross lines and wh.-ro it win not, and she selects her clothes ar cordingly. In that mirror she can sea if her shoes and hat are harmonious With the rest of the costume. She can tell, in this short skirted age ir th sort of shoe she wears makes her fOCl? ungainly, if there is an unattractivo rim of hose between boot top and skirt bottom, a rim that she might never detect de-tect without the aid of a mirror. Her long glass averts the tragedy of sloppy skirt hems, for It assures her each day of the neatness and straighluess of that much neglected line, of tho rjrst signs of fray, of the tiniest naughty dip of petticoat below her dress. Every woman knows Buch things are hard to detect with tho ordinary dresser mirror. mir-ror. "One point this girl emphasizes Is the appearance of her back. She Insists In-sists that dressing the back is more important than the front. Many women wo-men fussed up beautifully in front are frights in tho back. So with the aid of tho pier glass this girl sees that the back of her dress fits, that belts and plackets are right, the backs of her shoes which women seldom see aro perfect "No vanity, no useless lingering over dressing result from tho possession of this mirror. In fact, it demands less time and fussing than tho small badly lighted one." |