| Show y jt hands larger than ancestors the hands of the women of today are they larger than the hands of their grandmothers there la Is no exposition 0 of old style costume says the matin of paris which does not reveal at least by the diminutive gloves the exquisite smallness of our feminine predecessors both living and extinct F few ew women of this generation moreover are able to wear the wedding rings ring the other rings or bracelets of their ancestors one Is able to conclude certainly that these souvenirs of the past wore were chosen in accordance with the fashion and requirement and nit merely curious legacies legi cles left to us as something most precious and most rare it would be only honesty rather to avow that the activity of modern women has lone done away avay with nine much of the delicate slenderness of former times the hand which controls the flying machine and which wields the racket and the oar cannot oti of course remain as small and grac graceful efu as the one which had but to hold a handkerchief of lace |
