The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-16

Rirdles. The old-fashioned belt makes one
look so dreadfullY short-waisted, dom
you know? To make the very latest girdle
buy = yard Of gold cord and pass it three
times around tbs waist. Then take in a
part Of the slack and tie it in a tom FOOLS
knot. Let the remainder Of. the slack fall
gracefully over the hips. A looks
delightfully."- comfortable in one Of these
loose girdles, if the observer forgets for a
moment that inside of it is a corset with a
grip as u%nrelenting as the trammels Of sin.
There is a vast variety in these girdles, and
they will have their day,I suppose. but for
summer wear, and especially in the even
ing, i am of the opinion that nothing will
ever be so popular for the waist as the
good old, tino- honored coat sleeve with a
strong, masculine arm inside it.
The %favorits forms OF skirt are the bias
and the bell. No masculine mind has ever
been able to grasp the meaning and utility
of the term bias us applied to dress. The
word 70 harmless enough iflet alone. Turn
ing to my copy Of s'Ien Thousand Words
That Are Oftsn Misused, or the Handy
Holp to Correct English,"I find bias de-
tined as ''slantingdiculsr; cat-a-covnered;
not the real straight goods" This is easy
should be conelusive; but just ask any man
ask his wife to explain what she means by
q bias skirt, and in one minute he will wish
he had asked her why so many marriages
result u%nhappily.
So ! shall not describe the bias skirt.
The bell 10 sufficiently simple. It is cut
like the lower half of ono leg of d pair Of
spring-bottom pantaloons turned hind side
before. Another skirt about which we
shall hear a great deal this season is the
comet" SO called because n comet. gen
orally speaking. Is a thing which has no
prOner business in the same solar system
with ua.
Trains are still worn; and when they are
not In the mud they are held much higher
than heretofore. This fashion is due to
the advent of tho rutfled underskirt. There
has boon nothing new in hosiery for a per-
foct age, and the crossings in New York are
80 dreadfully sloppy.
There 10 such a vast diversity in hats this
that ! shall not be- able to tell my
fair readers Just what to choose. Ishould
like yerv mach to do SO, because 1t must be
so nioc when a woman has somebody 100
miles away to lay the blame on if her hus-
band doesn't like the hat-nice for the hus-
band, | mean. because ordinarily she lnys
it on him. | shall haye to advise every
woman to rely upon her intuition, that
glorited faculty of her sex by which she
reach n wrong conclusion quicker thar
my man alive can reach the right one.
The double-turretted hat which was de-
for use in the theater is going ont,
II has served it's purpose, being SO cleverly
that II the Wad OF trimming in
didn't shut off II mans view of the
that in the rear would get him sure.
The process OF evolution gradually in
the forward turret at the expense of
,he after one, until tho latte. wholly u,sap-
Then the single turret got SO tall
hat it toppled over and became. tho
s,treamers have boen getting
1ery bad in the last few weeks. They were
narrow at first, and about a yard long. Now
hey are longer than that and II yard wide.
Jaw a woman walk into a thentor the
,ther night with a streamer floating behind
Ter that was big enough and about right in
to mako an awning for the south
IN window Of a barber shop.
Tho worry latest hat is u plug with a
of the diameter Of n napkin ring.
hat Is so small that it has TO be
astened to the scalp with a court plaster,
nd sometimes by means of a wire frame
in the hair. Seine women nra
aid to use n perpendicular wire running
to the plate that holds their upper
eeth in place.
The fashionable sleeve ia very loose and
> tied In three places with ribbon. II gives
woman the appearance OF having six
lbows-whioh is likely to discourage the
of any man who doesn't want to
mp early and build the kitchen fire.
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