Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-02-09

curousy; she was in earnest and then remem-
bered that she belonged to that estmable class
called spinsters and did not know any better.
In all the ups and downs and ms and outs of this
Kaleidoscope world 1 recall certain scenes in a
household of men when dressing for a party. l
remember with certain nervous twinges, the de-
mands for needle and thread the utterances, not
sweet but strong, concerning delinquent tailor;
the angry twitchlngs given an innocent neckte and
the fearful denunciations of some far away laun-
dress.
''Men never bother about their clothes!" Saints
and angels defend us Did not the decree go forth
that zebra waistcoats should take the place of sim
pie white ones or the demure black, and did not
the poet of the Unknown and Unknowable take me
in to supper one night when the rays of the fairy
lamps made him look like half boiled lobster.
Are the young men of our day any worse than
the powdered, wigged and beruffled gentry of our
grandfathers? Not whit Only last week
scion of one Of our first families informed me that
"his last winters suits were all given away, for it
would never do to wear anything but the new
blended mixtures
The changes in hats ties, shoes, gloves or no
gloves, from white vests to black, from high cut to
low, from long waists to short waists from balloon
legged pantaloons to short skin-tight pantaloons
from bob-taed jackets and REFERS to long tailed
ulsters from short fobs to long chains or SEALS
from shirt-studs Of white to gold, diamond, or
none at all, would startle the learned lady out of
her linguistic lore did she but know the half of the
half of it. 1t takes woman with a man attach
ment and quartette of brothers to understand
the true nwardness of the masculine toilet. When
Tom Debutant has suit fresh from the tailor's he
is more fnicky and fussy about it than any woman
If there is faint suggestion of wrinkle across
the shoulders, back it goes, and is considered
''msft." AS to the pantaloons, have l not twisted
my neck even worse than any photographer ever
did to see if they were not trihe too long, or too
short, and didn't consider them little flush in
the rear, or little snug at the knees, or trhe
too spring at the bottom?
If men ''do not bother about clothes,' why were
crazy quilts ever made to use up the superhuous
neckties abandoned as out of style? As to cos
meics, Tom Debutant has ten to every one of his
SISTERS and perfumes are the delight of the mas
culine nostrs. Ask your druggist who buys them
and then ask every wife who uses them up for her.
Only the other day popular woman remarked,
concerning popular physician, that he was lotto
of Roses" in the morning, German Cologne" at
noon and 'Horse" at night.
Go on in the innocence of your spinsterial heart,
most learned maiden, but believe me when l tell
you, from the mountain top of experience, that for
unadulterated fussiness, from the end of waxed
mustache to the toe of a pump, or the fractional
section of white cuff below coat sleeve, the sex
that swears ''bothers" more about clothes than we
poor sinners. In this respect they are ''superor."
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