Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-30
girl with a atnalR arure and thin face

girl with a Rfutip figure and thin face
and arms ike a child's. "Other girls
wore 'imprOyers,' why shouldn't she 2"
Thus matters went on until the pool
girl was eighteen. A sensible man offered
to marry ner and she accepted-througb
her mother, who told her she must do so
In truth the girl was little loath. This
constant nagging and worrying of years
to make her look and appear what she
was not, and what she did not care tc
look, had had the worst of all possible
effects. 1t had made sweet tempered
| affectionate girl of eighteen glad to gel
away from her mother to home OF heI
| own,
Once her own mistress-at least as far
as her raiment went-0ur strange young
creature began like butterfly to come
out from her cocoon. She shed her wad-
dInGs and her paddings aud her little ro-
tundities. She hung her "switch" up In
the apple tree for birds 10 make their
nests with aud hung whole rolls OF cotton
wool beside it. She wore the shoes that
fttcd her leet and she let out her stay
laCes.
DO rot believe that woman ever had
happier honeymoon than did sac.
The principle of comfort and her ideas
OF beauty she kept with her, and it was
net this that made her looked upon as
handsome as ever at thirty-tve. she rec
ognized in fact that even beautiful woman
has one attribute in common with a kit
ten, a colt or baby. Her stomach may
be prosaic organ, but it is more useful
to her when 1t comes down TO everyday
happiness than is her back hair or her
hoODskirt. She had her principles, and
she determined TO live up TO them. She
did not believe that pastes or powde
ha1 ~
would not use them.
She did not think because every body
else wore their hair In tremendous "wa-
terfslls" on the back OF their heads that
she must needs take hers down from the
crown, where it looked we'll and was be-
coming to her. She did not do it, either.
She did not thipk that Just because she
was thin she needed TO swaddle herself TO
look fat. She dressed comfortable, ate
good things. AT proper time looked out
Tor her digestion and her temper, and at
the end of a year was plump as harvest
partridge.
And when she got "fat," as her femi-
nine friends called 1t, she did not lie
awake nights wishing to be thin again.
she simply liked it and kept honestly at
work trying to keep her good looks as long
as possIble. We cannot follow her much
i've we will leave her. She was still
round and straight. She could wear cor
sets or 40 without, just as she pleased, for
she had never worn them tight enough or
long enough to destroy the muscles that
surrounded her natural waist. Neither
was her nose blotched nor her hands red
from any such reason. Her hair, not
much thinner than it had been before
thanks to the exquisite care she had al
ways given twas still arranged in the
soft, pretty, becoming way she had al
ways worn it, modified but very slightly
TO suit the fashions OF the day. Her skin
was still pink and white, a blessing as
much due to long years OF perfect health
as 10 never ceasing care. She had taken
care of her teeth and her nails with as
much concern for the last ten years as
when she was bride, and her husband
was prouder Of her than when he married
her. Now. despite all this, women did
not approve of her mild denunciation OF
fashionable foibles, but still persist In
calling her "strange," peculiar" and 80
on. Such is the inconceivable blindness
of tue sex to real beauty and common
sense.