Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-08-16
Bonnets and Noses.


the relations of noses to things above them Read
and reflect:
{" It's a wise woman who knows her own nose
when she goes to buy bonnet said q philosopher
in petticoats the other day, and for my part
don't think any woman ought to be allowed the
run of the millinery shops unless she has made the
shape of her face and the length Of her nose a
subject of fasting and prayer. You see, when
you have once bought bonnet, and put it on,
your doom for the time being is sealed, and you
have got your certificate of character pinned on
your head so that everybody who runs or rides on
the street may size you up at glance. Doesn't
every one who sees a juvenile bonnet over an old
face know that the wearer is trying to look young
and cute? And when you see young girls face
under big overturned hat with enough feathers
on it to look like hearse, isn't it an apology
for the wearer not being at school? She's buying
Sig hat to try to look grown, and in about four
years she'll be buying go sailor to try to look
like school girl. OF course there ism anything
in this world that will keep the woman with sal
eratus-bscuit complexion from having her hats
trimmed in pale green, or the faded blonde from
wearing gray that makes her look like an animated
corpse, but do think there ought to be some sort
OF an amendment to the constitution to keep
women with turn-up noses from wearing pointed
poke bonnets that make EN- look like they had
been knocked under the chin and the whole face
jammed up into the crown Of the bonnet, and to
suggest to the woman with big nose that a coro-
net-shaped bonnet makes her nose to loom up with
added prominence. After ALI when you 20 to
buy bonnet you are generally in the dilemma Of
the girl who couldn't choose between her sweet
hearts because one came up to her ideal and the
other fired her fancy. The love Of bonnet we
fancy may be The very one our enemy would have
chosen for us. AS for myself have been dying
for one Of those big, 1aring, picturesque pokes,
but what would look like under it? Like cat in
a hole WE'LL and the philosopher gave pathetic
sigh heaven sends us our noses, and some OF US
haven't got much to blow about '"-Ex.
Mr.. Courtney, M. p, on Women Graduates.
At the prize giving at University College, Lon
don, the following scholarships were announced as
being won by ladies':
A ESQ scholarship in languages by Lillian Brock,
of London in science by Isabella May Hayward,
Of Torquay. scholarship Of f100 per annum
for two years in general chemistry by Caroline A.
Foley, OF Wadhurst.
Mr.. Courtney, in his address to the students,
said that one thing struck him very much, as mark
ing difference between that day and the period
when he himself was competitor for prizes, and
that was that that day was Of honor for women.
Not only in the fields Of competition Of which they
had heard at Cambridge and elsewhere, but within
those walls that morning they had seen prize after
prize taken by young women in fields Of thought,
in subjects Of speculation, in developments OF
faculty, which not long ago they would have been
thought most untitled for. 1t did not seem to
matter whether the pursuit was one Of pure liter
allure, or science, or drawing, or sculpture, every
where he found women taking prizes, everywhere
he found the men put hard to it in the competition,
and he felt some sense Of relief that his day was
over for he did not know what he might have done
had the conditions been the same in the past as
they were now. 1t added a new feeling to the
terror Of the Scotch boy who, being talked to by
his minister about the doctrine Of regeneration
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