The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-27
WORLD OF FAIR WOMEN.
THE COMMERCIAL VALUE OF SHOP GIRLS HAMPERED BY
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TO WEAR.

soft India silk, just the color of her hair,
and, as she was tall and slight, there was
mostly drapery 10 the dress. Shoes. fan.
gloves, handkerchief and parasol were all
The oniy jewelry were those tiny Ro-
mar gold-headed pins, and when the sun.
light fell on her she looked like q mass OF
gold.
what the other dress was.
II was black lace net, with black velvet
ribbons, for q big brunette. The ribbons
were drawn down long and also the dra-
perry, SO as TO give her q slender look.
Artificial peoples were ~sprinkled over u.
Everything That went with b dress was
black and red; even the black gloves were
stitched were red.
DON'T load yourself with jewellery.
Leave that for those who want some
thing Ia brighten themselves up.
Flowers match your rich, young beauty
best.
You spend hours over both your toilet
and gymnasium, and Il is a good thing;
but why don't some OF you spend more
time thinking what colors To wear?
Fashions In women's Names.
Fashions i'm mems names change some
what, but not as women's says the Boston
Transcript. John, Charles, George and
william reign I'm 1880 as they did in 179O.
But the fashion in women's names
changes every ten or fifteen years. II Is
possible that the sociological New Zen
lander will find that the feminine key
names of this century, so To speak, are
about as many In number as the decades.
just what was the ~favorite woman's name
at the very opening Of the century Is hard
10 guess off-hand, but the Listener will
venture to say that h Nancy epoch was
about the first worthy of record i'm the
century.
Among b octogenarian ladies of the
Listeners acquaintance the name OF
Nancy seems to IA a very prominent
place. Further on down the century
came the fashion OF double names-pos-
sibly an old fashion r~evived-and we find
Martha Anna. Mary James and Ann Elias
In nearly family. Perhaps this epoch
would he best described as the Mary lane
epoch OF our feminine nomenclature.
II was a little hard To locate these things
in years, but the Listener would say. at A
guess that the Lucy epoch began about
the year 1895. and was closely followed by
the Helen epoch. which left the name OF
the beautiful daughter of Leda scattered
broadcast over the country. Somewhat
after the reign of Helen came the most
singular, ~unaccountable epoch of all. the
Ella epoch. The Use of the name Ella
goes back, AS closely as the Listener can
there may have been earlier examples.
Where the name" ELLA" came from il a
mystery. The authorities put il down as
a corruption OF the name Eleanor, which
in its turn was corrupted from Helen.
IL appears 10 have no recognized place
either In history or fiction, though evil
IDENTIFY IL was borrowed from a fourth-rate
popular novel. Ii is. ut any rate, without
meaning, without associations in the past,
without n other reason for existence at
its beginning except that IL pleased many
peoples fancy. Now II no doubt has a
recognized existence since beautiful and
good women have borne IL, and like all
other names that women yer bore, il is
sanctified with that other nameo Of mother.
The real Ella epoch did not set in as early
rs 1850; probably IL was nj its height about
the year 1850. People thought il SO pretty.
But il is sadly out of fashion now.
There was al d "a epoch that came in
somewhere along there, probably just at
ter the Ella epoch, though the two names
ran pretty close together. The name of
d Is "A good and ancient one, though
most of the people who took IL up doubt
less thought they had hit upon something
quite new. Most Of the ldas OF the time
about isD wee named for n charac-
ter in a popular story or for one an
other. But following the Ella AMI Ida
period there came another girl name
which attaineda most extraordinary rage
the Edith epoch, indeed, survives almost
10 the present day. Between 1855 aud 1876
about half OF the girl babies were chris
tened Edith, and the crop is ripening fast
now, as a matter of course.
Look AT the high school catalogues and
see how they bristle with Ediths, an an
cient. Saxon anne. and a pretty one, dis
used for centuries aud revived all at once
IA happy revival. IL II has not been over.
done. Then came the Maud and Mabel
epoch; these names nave 10 be hyphen'
ated. because neither ever seemed able tc
stand M without the other. They were a
great rage In their turn. The main croI
OF Mauds and Mabcls will hardly mature
before another five years, though the
earlier sowings are ripe already. Since
then We have had the Marjorie revival
an exceedingly pretty name that, and bet
YER and more English than either Maud
or Mabel-and now we are threatened
with a Gladys epoch.