Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-05-16
FASHION A HARD MISTRESS.
You Must \ ways BE Learning New PartA
Like tie ACTRESSES on tho stage.

Like tie Actresse- on the stage
you may think il All easy thing
. be a fashionable girl" commented
M of them recently, but ! a as
sure you il is "A greatness which has its
penalties, Fashion is memorable and
omniprsent There is a rule for al
most every moment of existence a la
mode.
Take the afternoon drive. for in
stance. The fashionable grl conforms
constantly TO accepted customs in such
exercise. Having taken her position
and adjusted her toilet with great care,
she tilts her parasol AT the proper angle
and is driven off. This attitude OF
studied languor must not be disturbed:
II is not good form TO turn your head
or look about you en- route. A runa-
way dashmg by your carriage would
hardly justify a look beland. Stitfiy
stolid is the watch word of polite So
ciety on wheels, and the fashionable
coachman ably aids and abets his mis-
trcss TO preserve the correct demeanor.
When she has driven enough a touch
of her carriage bell signifies her desire
TO return, whereupon the statue on the
box holds his whip straight up like a
wusket and wheels his horses about,
leveling the lash again when they
are headed homewSrd.
And Of course there lisa fashionable
way TO leave the carriage, You must
never lean forward, getting your head
out first The properly trained wo-
man retains her seat till n foot is
above the carriage step, then, slightly
rising. sinks her weight upon it and
glides easily and gracefully TO the
curb.
And besides the fixed laws" went
on the tailor made, there are q thou.
sand and one little ways To do things,
from thrusting your gloves into your
glass at dinner when you don't want
wine TO using your lorgnette with Just
the proper ease when you are not aTbit
nearsighted, which change constantly.
The fashionable walk is different every
season. | can tell in "a moment jus
how much a girl is in the swim b.
her gait You remember the Alex
andra limp of a few seasons agoi |
was not out then, but | know my elder
sister had one of her boot heels made
considerably higher than the other TO
give her the proper lop as she stepped.
There is a varying and distinct FASH
able intonation 10 your voice. the way
you carry your mutf, your parasol, or
your umbrella, the tilt Of the head in
recognizing IN acquaintance-why, !
believe there is a fashionable way 10
sleep.
You wouldn't believe il, but this"
and one pretty plump hand crept a lit
tie up the forearm of its fellow,
hiding the tips Of the tapering fingers
under the lace of the slightly flowing
sleeve, lust now is the swell way 70
hold your hands while talking, you
know, and they are ungloved. 4 little
while ago we clasped them loosely in
u laps a la Evangeline, and a little
before that il was swell TO finger one
button of your corsage with the left
hand.
You would be surprised, too, at the
way these little caprices are started.
Not long ago half the girls at the
opera were holding one hand, the
right up TO their heads as if 10 shade
their eyes. That came about in this
wise. A rich girl and quite a leader
has a defective right hand. She was
injured when a child. Ungloved she
always keeps her hand out of sight;
but gloved the defect is not only hid.
den, but rather heightens the slim,
pretty look, and she used TO sit in her
oox at the opera with her hand on ex-
hibition up, lightly touching her fore
head. Other girls discovered and imi-
tated her example, and soon il was q
widespread custom. Oh, we really are
dreadfully absurd-but then we are
fashionable.
What is really exhausting, LaT-
ever, is what | call the mental IA.
ion. Such belong to the changeable
ones, too, Fashionable knowledge h
quite unlike any other-dont smile,
please-it is so spasmodic. Sometimes
Il is art that you have TO knoy all
about OF enough about 70 conceal your
i~gnorance; sometimes II Is orchids;
sometimes il is old bronzes; always
something different You have TO
skim through the last novel; be up in
every fresh collection Of paintings ex-
hiblted. Oh, | tell you it is fatiguing to
keep up with the processicn."-New