The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

Barrett can elevate it. He was visiting
clever woman near Boston-was in the
| library, and doing copy and throwing the
| sheets, as fast as he covered them, on the
floor to dry. His hostess and her little
daughter came in. The little woman was
trying to walk around the numerous
papers when her mamma said:
"Be careful, Hope, and don't walk on
MIR. Hutton's manuscript, else you'H get
your feet wet"
The question of dress came up in this
way: The young woman who had been
out fishing ~ said that she wanted TO put
on a gown that evening that would please
the soul OF Mr. Harvard, and by delicate
compliment she intended to make it
pale blue. Then the inevitable interro-
CATION mark from Boston asked soiemnly:
"Who do we dress for-men or women ?"
Mademoiselle answered: "Men."
Men, generalizing, have very good taste.
II is men who approve of black gowns,
small bonnets, no bustles, fresh gloves,
dainty shoes and long wraps. A man sees
the use of a short jacket, but he finds no
elegance in it. He can understand that
long wrap made of rich material, soitened
by fur or sparkling with jets, has about 1t
something that makes you think
woman queen.
that expression of fashion that would
make vulgar the Venus de Medici. And
the one man who rules the fashion, the
one man who understands the harmony
of color, the perfection of line and the
value of stuffs, always refused to put them
in the gowns he created. and the man is
Worth. You think it funny for a man to
be modiste? l don't. Who wrote up
the descriptions of the beautiful women
of Athens? Men. Who wrote the
famous Book of Eeauty" that Cleopatra
priced so, and which l believe is hidden
in the heart of the sphinx; a man, her
physician. Who wrote the book OF
thousand coquetries? A man, Ovid. You
see woman listens to the fTou-frou OF
silk, notes the richness OF velvet, but
man watches the Iitheness of the figure
that carries it and realizes how well
suited it is to the woman who wears It,
He sees the folds as they cling, and he
knows that he would shudder if they
stood out stiff and straight by reason of
an abomination OF wire or hair cloth UNI
der them.
Men are curiously enough alike in their
opinions of woman's dressing; centuries
have not changed them, and be sure that
when Eve sat down and with a thorn for
needle and grass for thread, sewed to-
gether the fig leaves that made the first
frock, Adam watched to see that it was
suited TO her. that a gathered leaf hid an
angle and q smooth one brought out a
curve. Women are critics of to-day; they
are satisfied with beauty exploited by
the newspaper, by the ordinary dress
maker, by the photographer and by the
boulevardier; men look for something
more-they demand the clear eye, the
white skin, the shape, the woman herself.
Ii was a man who drew the line of beauty;
to-day it is a man, Henner, who paints
the most beautiful woman. Women art
lists can do lovely bits of nature, wondrous
pictures of still lie, good portraits, but |
wait to see one who will vet put upon
canvas a beautiful woman. Oh, dear!
how | am preachingl If it hadn't been
for Harriet Harriet is the young woman
from Boston, l shouldn't have been led
astray.
GLOW is everybody going to fix her
hair q? Well, for my part, my hair is blonde,
/ am going in for the regular Alma Tade-
ma roofing-iust as I've been wearing it
a good full bang that comes almost to the
eyebrows and the back crimped a little
bit, drawn up rot very high, and pinned
here, there and everywhere. so that it
looks careless. OF course, you shouldn't
wear il with black hair. Women who are
blessed with black hair ought TO wear it
smooth, brush it till it's glossy, so glossy
that it seems TO reflect its beauty again and
again Black frizzes look like little SER
penis and will be woolly, and though Me-
dusa's very unique to read about, still |
don't believe anybody wants to look like
her"
You see it's a girls gossip-bright
enough, but innocent. This is a good
place to bring girls to. The fast element
is lacking, and the American girl is trusted
to do what is right. and she does She
boats, rides in a blackboard, goes for long
walks, and is after all just the healthy,
happy bright witted girl that she was
when she started for the summer. AS she
SAYS good-by TO the hills and the lake, to
the great trees putting on their autumn
gowns and to the battalion of friends who
are wishing her good-luck and happiness,
she thinks in her girly way, "What a
blissful time I've had !"
She may have added a heart to the rest
of her luggage, as she had pressed ferns
and small shells and tin-types, but you
can be sure she'll take good care of that
heart; If it's worth it, it won't 90 out in
the market again, but for dear love she'll
buy a life interest in it. She may seem
Just at first to be a summer girl, but after
you know her while you will find out
that she is girl who wears well all the
year round who is healthy, wise enough,
and, one hopes, wealthy. She is one of
the good types of the American girl, and
she frankly tells you that she likes Lake
George because it is healthy, too, and
then she adds, with a smile, ''that it's
just as well TO be where the cooking is
good, because / am so fond OF muffinsln
But thank your stars she doesn't say
muffs, because you feel that you're one
not to have gotten up courage enough to
tell her how adorable she is, and you pre-
fer to be more like your own self before
you are sure she really likes you. Your
guardian angel ought to tell you to have
courage, for any girl of sense prefers a
man to a muff at any time. At least
that's the opinion of Bah.
Had to Change the Subject.
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