St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
THE LADY RAMBLER.
She Tells Sf Lace Ornaments and
TheRIer Ethics.

That there is anywhere attainable a
happy medium our girls reSolutely deny.
and when they 90 in for thing they Just
make plunge, as it were, and 20 in heels
over head. Moderation in anything they
can't abide, and half loaf to them would
be as much worse than no bread
as there's no telling. This season
its lace. One would imagine there
was no other mode OF omamentation
known TO the civilized woman; hats. gowns.
wraps. parasols, everything above the sur
face is loaded down with il. and L doubt
not that garments invisible are adorned I'm
like manner, and / am not sure that some
OF the young ladies haven't their skin tat
tooed in lace patterns and the combinations
of colors and materials. They fairly take
away ones breath. One young damSel APP
pears in brilliant blue and
scarlet foulard profusely trimmed
with scarlet ribbon and white
cotton lace; dress of crimar silk has an
entire front of Oriental lace; while the
heaviest of flannels are ornamented with
white lace, both linen and cotton. the old
rule that insisted upon lace being of the
same material as the garment is embel-
liShed, having been declared out of date.
The most positively awful thing I'm this
line that it has ever been my fortune
to behold was a dress OF daTk-blue
cambria completely overlaid with the
coaTsest of wooden lace, bright red in hue.
1t fairly set ones teeth on edge lust to look
at it, and l supposed that the stock of lace
procurable had been exhausted and that
this had been employed as a make-shift.
but l have since learned that the fair wearer
is ''high-1yeT'' at fashion, and anything
sanctioned by her is of necessity correct.
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It's not so very long ago that the young
woman of faiTy-like proportions was looked
upon with favor by the men. and regarded
with envy ill-concealed by the less fortunate
of her own sex; that the novels of the day
were filled with raviShIng descriptions OF
petite damSels, particularly killing beauty
being always called a pocket Venus: and
that large ladies were considered clumsy
and awkward. Recently, however.
there has been change in public sen
timent, and now, TO gain position in the
front ranks of the admired, one must not
only be fair, but also tall. The ladies of
small stature we feel for, but they really
must retire into the background. It's not
that we are tired of them and sigh for nov
elty-not at all-but we are getting edu-
Gated above them. We are beginning to
appreciate the real beauty and true grace
that is expressed in long, siaight lines and
flowing drapeTieS. The artist wants no
tiny women in his pictures, and how absurd
it would be To put a pudgy girl into one of
our exquisite modern engravingS. OF course
If one is by nature dumpy. there is nothing
TO be done but grin and bear il, ameliOrating
ones condition as much as possible with
tail cOitfures, high-heeled boots and long
draperies; but when public feeling is 50
strong that the young men who go buggy
riding put extra cushions under the young
ladies. so that they may look tall as possible.
I'm really afraid the small women will have
to take extremely retired seats. ami accept
with thankfulnesS and humility such small
favors as may be youchsafed them.
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One would fancy that our theater-goers.
after so long a season Of quiet, might be
able to sit through at least one entire per-
Torrance; but it is the same old story. and
the same old rush at the end. so that the
two or three adventurous spirits who are
determined TO see the curtain fall find when
that event occurs they have the house to
themselves.
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And, for goodness sake. LET no one now
bring TO me abStruse questions, or present
for my solution difficult problems: for L am
spending every single spare moment of my
existence in endeavoring to discover why il
is that a girl with the reddest of red hair
will insist upon encircling her neck with the
yellowest of orange-cOlOTed ribbon.
LADY RAMBLER.