Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-21

meetings to advocate his special hobby. su 4,
pays for tbs privilege By listening in turn &c
the others. went to the last gathering. Dir
Lewis had the first oppors anlty, and he used
women. literally from head to heels. they:
spoiled their hair by knotting il. their breasts
by padding, their waists by corsets. their legs
4 by carriers and their feet By tight shoes. He
declared that these devices ruined shape and
health, and yet he admitted that our women
were the most beautiful in the world I am
no expert in this matter, nor defender OF
fashions means of adornment. but could net
help thinking that the DOCTORS concession of
superlatiye loveliness was q complete answer
TO bis own accusation. II bellies harm them
selves so extensively, would they not be ugly
wrecks instead of very handsome things? But
Dlo was at once assured by Stephen Pearl An
dreWs, DR. Lambert, and others, that he was
dwelling idiot--an opinion which each seemed
to hold Of all the rest-and he retorted by
Offering to settle the differences, so far as he
was concerned, By putting on the gloves and
ierceness of the debate exceeded anything that
had ever Witnessed, and I finally departed in
keen disappointment that there had, after all,
been no prize fight. r.:
Charming Woman Il
1t is the business of a woman Of the world
to be agreeable, says writer in the Atlantic
She spares no pains to make herself just as
good looking as possible, aud just as charming,
and she is always tolerant. She may think you
q fool fer your beliefs, but she doesn't tel You
80 Drutally, or Try to crush you with an ava
lanche of argument She tries to look at
the matser from your point of view; in short,
she feigns a sympathy, if she have it not
Your women with q purpose think it wrong TO
feign anything They won't pretend to be
sympathetic any moro than they will powder
their faees, or let their dressmaker improve
their figures That's why they are SO boring;
they are too narrow to be sympathetic and too
conscientious to be polite. 1t is earnestness
that does it; earnestness is naturally narrow
ing. 1t 10 earnestness, too, which sets their
nerves in culver and makes them SO restless.
They can never sit still; they are always
Iwitching, don't you know? That's earnest
ness. 1t has a kind Of electr, cal effect Women
IN earnest have no repose or manner But
woman Of the world feigns that just as she
felgns sympathy, because it makes her pleas
ant to other people. Oh, there's no doubt of
II; women with a purpose are vastly better
than other women, but they are not nearly so
nice!
Brocades in C.oalxs.
The latest fancy is to make cloaks with back
and fronts of brocade, and long, hanging
sleeves of striped material Brocades for
dresses showing all the new shades, aud old
ones, too. since some conservative people can
color 10 just as likely to be in good taste as the
newest Some novelties IN brocades, both in
tine grounds and in the patterns upon them,
can only be appreciated by being seen.
Muscovites, with the ottoman effect but
plain back, and the winter surabs heavier,
more closely woven, and of finer twill
than the summer ones, a material always Gin
order' for OLD and young, for morning, noon
and night for house Or street. assd in order in
another sense, since, if anything is everlasting
wear, this is; and, kept modestIy in the back
ground the old Roman silks--not novelty, to
be sura-but most desirable for the little peo-
pie, for their beauty of color, and also-low be
it spokeE-because they do not show the spots
that the dresses of all little people with any
activity are sure to acquire like plain materi-
ais. ALI the silks are Of unusual width, a fact
not always appreciated by careless buyers, but
which makes difference of several yards in
the amount of material required for q Co.'S
tune.