The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-08-24
LITTLE WOMEN
How They Must Dress-The Stoop
of the Bslies-Glrls who Impair,
Flavor of CArbolIc when
Kissed.

is fashionable now Ia stoop.
This is not metaphor, meaning that
women are little more than ever
STOPPING t, frivoii,y. but the literal
truth. The midsummer freak OF
metropolitan bellies is nothing les
than to curve their spines and droop
their shoulders until they look like
hopeless consumptives. \ girl with a
naturally fiat breast is considered
mi hty lucky. and she no longer sup
plies an artificial roundness, but is
proud of her lack of womanly develop
ment. There is no Use in reminding
ner that her deficiency is not charm
ing to masculine eyes; she will fol-
low the fashion, no matter how foolish
it is. The idea IS that hollow chest
is indicative Of maidenhocd. Women
who are by nature more amply en-
dowed flatten themselves As much a
possible with uncommonly high, mar
row corsets, and hold their shoulders
as far forward as possible, thus render
ing null and void one of the best of
their beauties. All. well, what fools
the sex sometimes make themselves
Some of my formerly buxom friends
have degenerated into hump-backs in
a single week. Their dresses have
been altered to suit the changed
shapes, though l imagine they would
fit the new figures if they were turn
ed hind side before. The slmpletons
remind me of the pictures i'm the old
reading books illustrating the good
and the bad posture at a desk boy
with protruded breast add erect head,
which is like the belle as she was, and
boy bumped over his book.
which is like her as she is. 1t is to
be hoped that this idiocy will be of
short duration, and at least. he killed
by western common sense before il
reaches very far. The prevailing
style of fichus enhances the ugliness
Of the stoop, and so does the shortness
Of the skirts. Poor. chicken-breasted
creatures no longer seed to hide their
misfortune and plump ones he,ve
ceased to be grateful for what All
bounteous Providence has
done for them. This is all wrong.
Women should make the most of
How few of them study
their own physique in reference to
becoming dress. Big women wear
what Can only loak well on little
women, and vice versa. The fashions
of to-day are especially favorable to
small women. A little of the Quaker
ishness of dress now permissible. how
ever unbecnming- it NAV be TO some
6guers. and painfully revealing as II
is to the stoop above described, j.
never out Of place on small woman.
Among the things the should wear
are solid colors. tinv figures or strips
(never ch.ck>). flowing draperies.
almost or quite plain skirts. beited
waists or very short basques, and soft.
delicate, but not too abundant iaces
LIE: her remember that. while verti-
cal lines lengtben, horizontal lines
have q widening ard shortening effect.
One of the loveiiest dresses seen this
spring. which transformed n previonS-
ly plain and keg-shaped little woman
into something graceful. 1.-THE and
fairy like, was rich plain black silk,
made with a perfectly plain skirt.
finished with box-plaited halave-e
quilting. Full. flowing black draperies
were shirred liz two or three rows near
the waist line The bodice, of the
same plain silk, was round French
waist, over which was worn a
of jetted black lace.
pointed back and front. furnished
with black lace ruff i'm the neck and
a high dog-coIlar of jet. The belt
was of wide black satin ribbon.
with a long, full satin
bow. tied little to one side Of the
front of the dress, the ribbon ends
being drawn into little pouches. These
pouches were each finished with three
jetted spikes, which hung almost to
the knee. together with a small jet
and lace-trimmed satin pendant
pocket. Long-wristed black lace mits
were worn with this toilet, the sleeves
halfway between the wrist
and elbow, and finished with black
instead of white lace. A cream
colored Leghorn hat. lined with
black velvet. turned up behind, and
trimmed with white plume and soft,
crushable silk finished null scarf. in
stead of ribbon. was worn with the
dress. 1t was half drawn over the
forehead, and tied under the knot
with wide. lace-edged mul!-strings.
which gave the required look of sum
mer GOODNESS to the costume.
Bleached-yellow hair is hardly seen
At ali. Some ladies are tightening
their hair few shades, but real
is not the proper thing.
With elbow-sleeved dresses ami
ankle-short skirts, the seaside bale
sticks out from under her clothes in
al directions but the exposed ex-
tremities are generally beautiful. so
slaborately are they covered with
nitts. stockings and slippers. The
nitts ere now as bright coiored as the
stockings; and, if the dress be white.
md the mitts and stockings red, the
dea of blazing woman underneath
8 glowingly suggested. A great
many Of the women smell of carbolic
when you go TO kiss them. This IL
because they believe that a weak
solution of carbnlic acid is cure for
he freckles which the sea air brings
out.
At the reception given the other
evening by Chanfrau, the actor. VINO