Show hands larger than ancestors the hands of the women of today are they larger than the hands of their grandmothers there Is no exposition of old style costume says the matin malin of paris which does not reveal at least by the diminutive gloves the exquisite smallness of our feminine predecessors both living and extinct few women woman of this generation moreover are able to wear the wedding rings the other oilier rings or bracelets of their ancestors one Is able to conclude certainly that these souvenirs of the past were chosen in accordance with the fashion nod and requirement and not merely curious legacies left to us as aa something most precious and most rare it would be only honesty rather to avow that the activity of modern i women has done away with much of the delicate slenderness blendea ness of foral former tir times the hand which controls the flying machine and which wields the racket and the oar cannot of course remain as small and graceful astae one had bad but to hold bold a handkerchief of lace |