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Show 1 'm. MM Youthful Matrons Set the Style Pace In Most Communities-Daring Evening Gowns and Sumptuous Wraps To Cover Them Street Clothes Correct In Every Detail Riding Clothes. BE she English French or American, Amer-ican, 'lie young married woman sets the pace Sn dress these days For her cio milliners and couturiers cou-turiers produce their most stunning model? for her arc the most sumptuous sumptu-ous wraps designed, the most locly negligees concocted. Gone are th day? w hen a girl, just because she was I married, stepped Into the background V and took to staid semi-elderly attire, .t.uz ' 'iic frills and furbelows to h' m.iiNn .Vow it is the maiden j wno is kept a little In tho background I unless she has been "out" several seasons and has established herself I as a personality in society. The deb-m deb-m utante dresses smartly, but never quite as sumptuously or as stunningly as the young married woman or the "married girl" as she is calU:d now. And unless family cares absorb her. the young matron ha? season after I season of such independent, carefreo ; i , gaktv as never falls to the lot of the well chaperoned, convention-bounded unmarr.ed girl. By and by she settles I down and takes up the more serious problems of life: she goes in for suffrage suf-frage or for charitable committees or I for welfare work of some sort, or accepts ac-cepts gladly the responsibilities of motherhood The butterfly existence does not la. long unless she be an J exceptionally shallow and superficial J rroman and there are not many such, j after ill In America! Who ran be- I grudge to the youthful married worn- j I an her few years of gaiety and play -f time when 30 soon must come the ' acceptance of life's burdens and prob- j lems and responsibilities? ITard To Tell Matron From Maid Every woman looks so young these I days, and modes for the married are 1 so Identical with modes for the unmar- J ried. that t i.a often Impossible in a gathering of womenfoik to tell whii h I are the matrons and which the maids. 1 1 Fifty year? ago the married woman I I on an occasion of formality wore a handsome black silk every trousseau of that time included its dignified ! black silk gown, the sign and symbol of the married estate. A hundred I years ago the mother of several srow- ing cbildren donned a cap which covered cov-ered her hair and had strings that tied beneath her chin. Forty, in those days, was a venerable ag'e. and the matron of even twenty who aped the fashion of girlhood would have been laughed at or looked askance at. Small difference there Is now In dress, between the maid of twenty and the matron of like age or even between matron and maid of thirty, except that the married woman is privileged to adopt more dashing and daring fashions. fash-ions. And since eery woman makes it a fetish now to keep the flat, undeveloped un-developed lines of girlhood and never to grow plump even if one starves to accomplish the lean willowlneae thai Is demanded by fashion youthful styles may be worn Just as long as the silhouette remains youthful. Usually the young married woman changes her coiffure a little Not quite such a young-g!rl effect Is considered correct for her d for her unmarried sister, even though the latter be older In years Rut In the main, halrd?esslngi for maidenhood and matronhood are much alike And when a "married girl" of thirty or thereabout 1 In her sport togs,, it Is a discerning stranger, or a familiar friend, who takes her to be older than the early twenties. Monkey Fur Fancied On Smart Frocks All of the clothes pictured today have been designed, and are being worn, by young married women. The afternoon frock trimmed with black monkey fur is a youthful frock in Its general silhouette, but such rich dark materials would not bo selected for 0 debutante or c en a jrlrl in her second season. Of course, the young matron always on the qui vive for very latest lat-est modes must have monkey fur on her afternoon frock this winter. It gives the flnal Paris touch and marks a costume as indubitably new. Mill-night Mill-night blue trlcolette was used for the EVerTiGloVr-rL .'-V orJZ'sfL Jetted ttet and Elsok .:v' f aHcnt: TcxUe. Embroidered a. 'f : - short sleeved bodice and tho full tunic I which falls above an extremely nar-j nar-j row. plain skirt of the trlcolette. This I skirt is not more than a yard and a I half around while the flaring tunic measures a good three yards, And four times three yards of monkey fur frlncre tro round the tunic, plus bands of monkey fur around the deep deeol-letage deeol-letage and across the modest le of flesh , tinted silk net. which gives a queer ! effect as though the bands of fur I were drawn ncross an open deeolle-! deeolle-! tagc with nothing but bare neck un-; un-; dcr them. The double girdle is of ! heavy silk cord and startling lassi Is. each a yard long, fall from the ends I of the cord. Tufts of monkey fur ! are caught against the girdle, at the top of the long silk tassels. With this striking frock is worn a stunning ha' , of black velvet, with a flange brim of black mousaellne undcrfaced with I black uncurled ostrich. You must not j fall to note the shor'-vamp slippers ; with instep straps. These represent I the smartest style In Paris and though I most American womci prefer the slender, long-toed American pump i slippers of the sort pictured mark 1 their wearer as extremely Parisian in I her attire. Ermlm Regal Put p I01 ed Bj pung Matrons For a wrap to weur with the short j sleeved afternoon frock, tho youthful matron selects a lon.T scarf of fur wi'h .1 round mutt to match. The scarf must be broad enough to drape well 'over the arms when desired and the quaint old pose, with elbows cuddled I under a closely dra-.n scarf and hands tucked Into a round muff a pose f a -miliar in paintings of the isth ccn-tnry ccn-tnry Is ouite the vogue this season. Sometimes tho fur scarf Is draped back over one shoulder as the picture j shows It, and you sec she is wearing ( long gloves with the elbow-slccved afi- irnoon frock. Ermine seems to be a ; pelt especially beloved by the young j murried women perhaps because an Indulgent spouse will supply It and pater families would not The ermine ; scarf in the. picture accompanies a , frock of black velvet trimmed with Jet fringe. The hat Is a superb mode! of Pompclan blue velvet with trailing OBtrtch plumes In the same shade. Notable Evening Gowns Pot Feting Matrons KobOdy wears evening costumes like the youthful murried woman Tlr debutante would not be. a'lowed to and the older matron would not dare 'o affect such striking r.nd trying concoc-ilons. concoc-ilons. The couturiers love to design brilliant evening garb for the younger 1 married set and outdo each other in P me Lole airxd Tord'SuPiSci enl ion from Cold producing unusual effects, for the ev ening gown that will make Its wearer wear-er the most Interesting perron in the room is what all femln.nlty Is looking for. A gorgeous gown indeed is the pictured model of black jetted net with wheat embroideries In silver thread. Ropes of cut Jet beads form the shoulder straps and descend In iong festoons beneath the arm. A fringe of jet beads falls from the tunic, and a shorter fringe from the edge of the sklit which is quite short us all evening skirts arc now But the train gives dignity and it. too. is of the heavily jetted net and silver embroidery. embroid-ery. Picture Hats or The Moment Two typical hefs of U-.e season, all made by famoun milliners for young married women of Manhattan, are Bhown on today's page. One picture T-iudes a stunning broadtail wrap in the new balloon shape, but the ha: is the real feature of the costume. Or at least i!s veil is. This Is one of those 1 lace pattern veils that drape entirely ' tf 'f til J till The lievv-Lace Veils are Lilce j OidTssKi.oned M Lace Paper m - I over the hat and fall just over the i'lil brim's edge and milady looks exactly Irll like an old fashioned nosegay cmerg- C S'jl ing from a frill of lace paper. Tho j ttL other model 1- of bic1.. velvet with II pale gray paradise lil |