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Show SPRING FASHION. In tho spring a woman's rancy lightly turns on things to wear, says the New York World. It Is no mistake mis-take to place tho peach-basket hat among tho topmost topics or the present hour. Touching- the other extreme, there Is the proposal to increase in-crease tho tariff on stockings, although al-though we are not in the habit or cultivating cul-tivating fashions for revenue only. Despite the threatening duties, there are to be many tints, from violet to violent, with or without ornamental designs from elusive to exuberant. To fair followers of rashion who are blessed with elbow dimples the return re-turn of the long sleeve should be a painful event. Yet If the designer ot new things decrees no ractical departures, de-partures, how shall they know he ib busy? Art In the mode cannot live by grace alone. It Is perhaps a related re-lated fact that skirts are to be tuner and underskirts to multiply. Thoso need the money who sell. such stuff as petticoats are made or, hence away with the scant severity of the Ulrec-tolre Ulrec-tolre folds. Let us live and let live without getting out of style. Along with modes In dress there arc modes In thought. These affect as well girls In college as women In cults. At Vassar, therefore, lol lowing low-ing a fashion of the moment, there Is a discussion of sexless suffrage, and we read In one gentle protest that women should not voto because they "have a higher sphere." To which tho response is immediate and obvious: ob-vious: "If women have a higher sphere it should be nll-lncluslvo and not withdraw itself rrom tho lower sphere." To turn from the abstract to the concrete npt even the peach-basket hat should be Immune to the office-seeking office-seeking bee. |