Show 1 DRAPERIES CON cycling hes caused a in feminine costume now that september is really bero and the summer season ie 00 the wine abo observant looker on in the world of woman has lilted down the reflections that rapidly being divided wo ciana draperies are into two distinct clae ees aftret the purely ornamental and second the strictly useful last beason the girls who their bicycle or tennis suite anywhere bat on their wheels or at the tennis court bad to muster up their courage a bit before they ventured the streets but thie year they were ae ordinary a eight as was any outing costume bicycle parties were so frequent that the railway jaunt ices to and from the place of meeting were a matter of cauree and one rarely stepped into a pleam car during july and august without noticing at least two or three girls or women in short shirts and chirt atie novelty has worn away and cow the advocates of short skirts upon all occasions out of doers are coming with able pleas for their adoption In leeI after a woman has conn up long fl ilits ot stairs in a bicycle costume she ony realizes what she has endured in stumbling up with her long skirts duine the earlier part 0 her days and compa are odious here as everywhere else at the paris tire not many months sg hen so few women escaped one american eirl told how when the first alarm came abe at once picked up her skirts 0 o her knees and called to her friend to do the same both then ran for the doors and were free but as they went dozens of women running ani treading on their skirts until beveral were thrown forward and tramped upon while all were sorely hampered scenes like those are coming to the help of athletic requirements to banish the camperine ham perine draperies and it really seams that conservatism is giving way and the abbreviated skirt is coming to stay feminine tourists among the mountains appreciate to the full the atory that madame jenneda miller ie fond of telling bow a decare was raised one morning over a snake in the woods and how she and her sister scampered to a place of safety in a moment and then turned to pity the scrambling tumbling shrieking group of long skirted sisters who were so tied up in the folds of their gowns that they could scarcely move house gown detill keep their long graceful folds and there is something about the trailing garments of a woman that ie extremely graceful and at rac tive but it will soon be time now for be rainy day clubs to come to the fore azain and as wheels and tennis courts will still bold their own for two months is fair to predict that before another beason has passed the woman who wears t long skirt out of doors will be as rare a igat as those were who donned chort phort mes last year |