Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15
HER PRESENT POSE.
Man Denounced As a Horrid. Sar-
castle Crea ture"

Man Denounced As "A Horrid, Sar-
castle Crea ulre"
Have you noticed the latest fad?''
said a gay girl with laughing eyes this
afternoon.
The man with whom she was talk
ing followed the direction of her glance
and saw a group Of half a; dozen fash
ionably-dressed young women talking
with single naval officer, whom they
had got all to themselves.
You mean
The attitudes, of course. Don't
you see that every one of those girls is
standing with her arms akimbo,''
why, SO they are
well, that is the very newest thing.
In order to make the balloon sleeves
look as big as possible the proper fash
ion is to put the hands on the hips.
Observe the effect now when I do it,
L shouldn't think that was necessa-
ry."
'Oh, that is because you don't I'M
derstand. Everything is necessary
that is the fashion. 1t is even done at
meals
L don't think I've observed it,
"Of course not. Men have no eyes.
But when you go into dinner presently
take notice and you will see that the
accepted form is for woman to hold
her left arm alimbo, the hand on ;he
hip, while she eats with her right
hand, All the SWEETEST girls do it,
You don't, suppose?"
Il haven't adopted it at meal siust vet,
but am trying to learn You see, it
is rather uncomfortable at first. But
[ dare say it comes easy after a WHILE
L never heard OF anything rGore alb
surd."
Every new fashion is absurd until
one gets used to it. I have been prac-
tcing lately at standing with nv arms
akimbO. The first time mamma saw
me do it she was startled. She called
me to her and asked me if I was trying
to look like a milSmaid.''
''The attitude is certainly not a grace
full one"
THAT doesn't make the slightest diff
ference so long as it is the accepted
form. If you possess any powers of OBJ
servation you would have noticed long
ago that attitudes for women alter
from time to time like any other styles.
Mamma says that when she was a girl
she was taught that the only correct
way for a lady to sit was with her
knees and feet close together. Such a
thing as crossing the legs was consider
ed altogether impossible. Even the
gentlemen avoided that position because
it was too degage."
Certainly no such ideas govern
now"
'9They are out of date, of course. I
can myself remember the time when
dlvanS came into fashion, and I sup
pose that it was on account Of them to
some extent that women got into the
way of lolling when they sat. At all
events, Of late years it has been con-
sidered entirely proper for ladies to
cross their knees in public, and when I
was in Boston two or three years ago
[ came across something quite new to
me then in the way of a fad. 1t was
practiced extensively by the women
who thought they had pretty ankles"
"What was it,"
''Why, it was simply to cross the legs
and lift the skirt in such a manner
when sitting down as to display a liber-
al bit of ankle. Could anything be
more absurd?''
II should think not, considering the
fact that they were Boston ankles,''
said the young man.
''You are a horrid, sarcastic Great
ure," responded the girl with the blue
eyes.