Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-15

small as far as their size goes, and express
siyely large as far as the bill goes. Girls
over " are, with coquetry that Is charm
ing. assuming the small bonnets favored
in England, for II gives them an oppor-
tnnity to say well. you know, Pm be-
ginning to get quite old now, and | don't
want people to say that / am dressing too
young y When pair of bright eyes look
and the com plexion, which is as clear as
cream, is visible, and the man wonders if
the girl is really in earnest or if she has
any idea how absolutely sweet and young
she does look. This is one of the charms
of the art of dressing. The woman who is
not afraid to dress little older than she
is, is the woman who is going to look
young for all time. Remember, that do
dowdy, but mean the one who assumes
the bonnet that is a tiny bit matronly.
MANS IDEA OF woMAN's WEAR.
By the by don't you think that man
kind in general is extremely careful about
what he thinks women ought to wear DO
we go careening around objecting to his
stockings or asking whether he wears
carriers or not? Do we bother the lives ont
of ourselves by thinking whether his
trousers had better be suspended from his
hips or his shoulders? Or do we care
Whctltr tilt uEiJ lnlllSS ne wears liilueT
his trousers are made of wool or cast iron
Certainly not. Well, he goes to work and
VIII lecture. for two hours on the evil Of
the corset, knowing nothing at all about it,
WHEN BusTLEs WERE WORN
he would enter the family pulpit, usually
in an extremely comfortable arm chair,
and diate on the folly OF the hustle, on
the ugincss Of the hustle, and the general
sinfulness of the hustle. Now, that the
hustle is gone, he is pitching into people
for wearing skirts that drag a woman
down. He needn't be so troubled about
it. Women are not going to be dragged
down unless they want to. They generally
have funny little way of their own of
getting what they want, and when they
want it-but petticoats Just get man
talking about petticoats from his stand
point, and he will argue two hours, and
then when you quietly say to him: do
you think trousers should take their
placer he rushes out of the room, and
says the more girls go to college the less
they know. AS for powder or rouge and
bangs, WE'LL he regards them both us inven-
tons Of the evil one.
MAN NOT so BAD AFTER ALL.
Now, what does man want a woman to
have2 He don't want her to have petit
coats; he don't want her To have corsets;
he don't want her to have bustles; he don't
want her to go without bustles; he don't
want her to have false hair bangs. or
rouge, and yet he wouldn't give up one of
his rights to her to save her soul.
He nearly upset the CHILEAN question by
Directing to lovely women wearing four
in-hand scarfs and it's only because she
would do it, that he has allowed her-he
puts IL that way-to wear a pique waist
coat to accompany her new cloth jacket
Man is an animal who is never thoroughly
understood. lie cali be tlattered into any
| thing, and yet one word to the wrong and
the game is lost.
| Heprefers togovern your women friends
and is bitterly opposed to Miss Blank, unit
he has heard she has said something
pleasant about him, and then she won
ders why you don't have her oftener tc
| dinner.
He is surprised that women spend SC
much money on dress, and yet he declinel
to show the bill for his last springs over
coat.
He thinks that woman's place is a
home, and while he emphasizes this, h
doesn't apply it to man.
He thinks man was made first, hecaus
he would then be ablet to set an example t
women, and he did and she had to wall
out of Paradise, and her only consolation
was, that she could say: 81 told you So
After all, men are not SO very bad that i
to say. they are not as bad as women.
At least that's the opinion of BAB.