The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-05-04

ter OF wealthy, though honest trades
man, has position in the exclusive set
Of the metropolis which is unquestioned.
The enormity OF her income, the friend
ship Of Mr.. Ward McAlister, and the
sumptuousness OF the dinners with which
her parents have 80 long overfed their
400 equally rich acquaintance, have
made her the toast and talk of society.
But the marriage signalized two signifi-
cant things. Craven wore his trousers
turned up from the bottom and his bride
wore wedding gown which had been
worn before.
Henceforth no similar occasion will be
complete unless the bridegroom breaks
the legs of his trousers with turn-up
and unless the bride gives to her gown
previous wearing. For, is he not the
Earl, and is she not now the Countess Of
Craven? -
We trust our young men will take due
note. Let us hope that hereafter they
will not be seen walking our streets ex-
posing to the stranger within our gates
their lack of respect for the moisture of
old London by wearing their trousers as
their simple old fathers before them be-
lieved they should be worn. Let us hope
too that our girls will be duly respectful.
1t has been theory for generations back
with our good mothers that the bridal
toilette was more or less sacred to the
nuptial occasion. That it should be only
then worn and forever afterward preserved
as fond memory of the sweetest cere-
mony in all life. But that theory falls
fiat. Our caste must discard the old and
accept the new dogma. For your trous-
ers are not noble unless turned up and
wedding gown is not English unless pre-
viously worn.
In recent interview in the New York
Sun, no less noted an authority than
Loie Fuller, the skirt dancer, refutes the
arguments of the dress reformers that
grace is incompatible with corsets, by
announcing, as the result OF her own ex-
perience, that we'll made corset fits the
body exactly and supports instead of con-
fines it, is, in short, q help rather than
hindrance to grace. 81 do not think
could dance without corset or boned
waist" she says" and / am quite sure
that could do all Of my dances in the
snuggest gown own. 1t is nonsense to
suppose that grace and well fitting gowns
cannot go together. 1t is easier for a
woman to be graceful il her dress fits her
than il she is wearing lose rag OF
dress" She says, too, that the day is
past when women could walk and dance
better without heels. The foot has been
trained for generations to walk with
heel, and without it is badly strained
across the instep. For dancing purposes
she recommends plain satin slipper
because it "gives" to the foot, and being
without ornamentation, makes the foot
look smaller. As our American Loie is
receiving the snug sum Of rather more
than $500 per month in a Partisan
theater, and has contract to such effect
for SO consecutive months, her ideas as to
the corset will have all weight. Frances
Willard and the rest OF the advocates OF
the loose blouse and roomy mother hub
bard, will not be able to frighten the
rising generation of pretty girls from ty-
ing, as of old, their corset strings to the
bedpost, by telling them that the amount
of force used at any given moment to
compress the waists of women by artifc-
ial means would turn all the mills from
from Puget Sound to the Merrimac. Nor
will the dainty slippered foot be induced
to take rest" or plant itself fiat on the
ground by being told that the condensed
force of girls tight shoes, If it could be
applied, would run all the overland
trains on the transcontinental railroads.
Mrs. Jenness-Miller is against the ropes
and the sponge of dress reform is in the
air. ]. K. B.