The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-17
JENNESS-M|LLER
She Delights a Helena Audience With
Her Lecture and Her
Gowns.
Tho Former Full OF Sound Advice.
the Latter Marvels Of
Beauty.

Beauty.
The Lecturer Herself Handsome, Indepon-
dent Of tho Drsssc,nksr's Art-Tho
Dresses She Exhibited.
Tho lannon's Jenness-Miller has appeared
and disappeared. She might with propriety
repeat tho words of Caesar, "Veni, vidi,
vioi." for she came, she saw, and she con
qusred. We we're all there, "a were also \
few bravs members Of the sterner sex. We
are conhdrnt that IL Mrs. Miller should
favor Helena with another visit, another
lecture and another ehancs for herself and
her gowns TO be viewed, her audience would
be composed equally Of men and women.
For, let them assume what Indifference
they may regarding the subject Of woman's
dress, we are sure men are equally observ-
ant Of what il beautiful and artistic in
gowns AZ the wearers themselves. Fully
400 women and young girls composed prin-
oipally the company that assembled in tho
beautiful new Sunday school room of tho
Presbyterian church on Tuesday afternoon
TO liston to the lecture on the much needed
and slowly but surely coming change int he
habiliments of women given by Mrs. Mil
Ter. Rev. Mr.. Moore made q few very
happy and appropriate remarks in intro
ducinR Mrs. Miller. heartily approving Of
tho endeavsrs of this lady to introduce
dress reform to the notice OF
all her sisters, Is according to his ideas
the dress of the women of tho present age
10 sadly in need Of reform, and she will not
have reached the acme until her garb is 80
fashioned and wsrn as TO be as comfortable
and easy as tho costume OF the men. In
closing his remarks, Mr.. Moore said he
was heartily in favor of any reform being
made in womsn's dress so long "a the per
fectly easy and exceedingly comfortable
costume of the mon il let alone.
As Mrs. Miller rose to m her ad-
dress her eyes twinkled a. she said that the
men all seemed afraid, for one reason or
another, to attend her lectures, and conse-
uuently most of her audiences were COM
posed Of women and girls, bat whenever
she could secure 4 man among her listeners
she was delighted. Az ahs saw several pres
ent she tool great pleasure in answering
the remark of MIR. Moore regarding the
ACAoI0 VA LIE oOA - - kbA~
they wear, by saying she considered the
costume of the male sex anything but beau
tiful, that in some respects it was AS un-
comfortable as a woman's and 20 extremely
unbecominR that it mad the abandonment
man look ugly.
Mrs. Miller is certainly a beautiful
woman. Her six years. work in physical
culture and her change in dress may have
heen prominent features in making her the
fine looking woman she is. but as an east
ern paper says: "She must nave had a deal
Of beauty and fine physique to start with"
weight about $50 pounds, with (think of it,
fellow women!) Il waist measure Of twenty
six and q half inches. rich dark brown hair
which she wars fluffy all over her head.
large brown eyes, and q clear creamy COM
p~lexion. At the commencement Of her
talk she appeared in the much spoken-of
exquisite gown of her own invention, the
ono that is considered 80 graceful and
artistic that one of the eastern artists
will paint it for exhibition at the Worlds
fair. It is of black satin foundation, COW
cred with Brussels net embroidered in ar
tistic patterns, in shades Of pink and green,
the work being lone by the women of Con-
stantinople. It outlines the figure loosely,
is perfectly straight in front, having no
darts or seams, and fastens in the back. A
heavy, long vatican fullness of richly bro
caded yellow satin contrasts most delloatsly
W1GA GAO HANuCb VI ~ 0LN
short draped sleeves Of the net also heavily
embroidered make a most picturesque cos
tune, and Mrs. Miller was Z dainty sight in
it and looked as if she might have stepped
out of a picture.
TIL first part of her lecture was given up
principally to the subject of physical onl-
ture; she attributes the injuries to the
health of women, which are the cause of
more than half the ills of life, to the mode
of dress worn. She says it is impossible to
have the perfect health and freedom of ac-
ton in all the muscles which is necessary
to develop the physical system with oorsets
and the multitude Of bands and strings
which are necessary to the present style of
dress; that as long as women will insist
upon squeezing the form into q pair of COR
sets, entirely displaeing all the vital organs
of the body Just at the point where they
should have the greatest freedom OF action,
just SO long will woman be heir to the phys
ioal ills of life that make her the feeble
creature she 10 often is. Mrs. Miller also
explained the art of breathing properly,
and said she believed il girls were not so
greatly handicapped at the waist they would
Guido in mental attainment their male
competitors at school, n vie with the lat
ter in physical attainments, as woman was
naturally of stronger constitution than
man.
To indicate that woman could appear
fully As well in loose, comfortable fitting
gowns Tor Oil CCcaBlOub, ana BGlll LOOK
becomingly dressed. Mrs. Miller stated she
would attire herself in several different
STYLES and allow the ladies to observe and
to ask any questions they might wish to,
regarding tho apparel. As she loft the
room Mrs. Miller requested that some one
would kindly time her while making tho
change. On her reappearance, and upon
asking the time she had been absent, one
of the gentlemen present answered. Just
two minutes and a half" Two minutes
and a half,' replied the lecturer. ''Now,
gentlemen, do you not think | am a model
wife to change my gown in two minutes
md a half?" The second costume was tho
pattern of a most becoming yet simple
gown for a school girl, and rs she appeared
there were murmurs all over the room.
'Oh, o pretty, and yet how simple" It
was of pink India silk, made with full
plain skirt, full baby waist with several
lines of shirrinR at the waist, out slightly
away from the throat, and with elbo
sleeves, a most dainty becoming gown. and
yet exceedingly simple. Mrs. Miller
stated the name of this gown was ''Ihe
Josephine" and one of its particular
beauties was its inexpensiveness.
Her third costume she called the business
woman's gown and it was equally beoom-
ing. A soft gray skirt of Lain material,
scarlet silk vest trimmed with large gilt
beads and blazer of the gray. As tho ladies
finished the insnection of this dress Mrs.
Miller said she wished to call particular at
tentlon to the length of the gown; that n