Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-08-26


Minority of Osr Women.
What superb igurer' exclaimed the
man on the verauda, as a slender woman
with a full. Junnlikr bust aud magnificent
sips strolled down the lawn
What superb dressmaker she EN-
ploysr responded the wife at his side, who
bad with woman's quick instinct, noted
the scrnggy throat above the stylish collar,
the thin, bony wris, beneath its weight of
/ bangles, and drawn her own uferences
The splendid creature turned aud passed
again The figure was that OF a goddess
/ fresh sprung from Jove himself The face,
thin, wriukled and haggard, surrounded by
faded gray hair The wife smiled n mali.
cious II told you So" The man whistled.
Verify, the fashionable modiste deserves
a place among the immortals, not only for
artistic feeling In color harmonies aud
combinations. but for the sculptoris cum
ming 10 the arrangement Of lines and the
ftshioning of shapes and forms The hu-
man form divine Ia only clay model to
( tie artistic modiste She presses II ia here,
I packs 1t out there, shapes IL clcverly to her
liking II she doesn't by taking thought
add one cubit TO the stature OF her model
she adds a most convincing and deceptive
sembiance Of Il 10y the arrangement OF
studied lines and draperies
NEyER nAuNTED.
IL Is unfortunate that the dressmaker's
ideals do not coincide with those OF und is-
puted artistic excellence; that they are In.
spired by Noah's Ark wooden women
rather than by Phildean goddcsses and
/ Grecian nymphs and sirens The dress
makers modelling clay is cotton batting or
/ horsehair, or even the wooden shayings
. 10 ~.
her miracles. Are square shoulders the
fancy Of the momenti All her women
i have shoulders like cadets. Are hourglass
figures the thingt How uniformly shs
produces them Are English waists ''ini"
Her women out English the English In
slenderness Or are low busts desirable.
| No woman comes from her hand without
the beautiful length OF line from the point
Of the shoulder TO the bust curve. The
only thing that really puzzles the artist OF
the thimble and shears II hopelessly
stout woman Flesh Is aggressive aud
comhative; II pressed in here II will bulge
somewhere else with disastrous effect to
symmetry But she doesn't quite lose
heart even at this but laces it in, buttons
Il down. shuts IL in compass OF steel, and
If the model doesn't die, sends her ont into
the world looking ten pounds lighter and
| several inches taller than she Is
The first thing the dressmaker insists
upon with her victim ia the corset Of her
particular fancy This corset is wonder
ful aud Intricate arrangement, which gives
the long, sloping waist curve TO thin and
plump figures alike. IL rounds out the
Hat figure and binds In the stout one In its
relentless ribs Of steel and woman, with
her marvellous power of endurance, adapts
herself To IL with smiling grace, tucks
all t.gt "A
about her waist wherever there happens to
be most room. Just she packs her over
flowing summer trunk and shuts the lid
down relentlessly upon its contents, learns
TO get along with about half the allowance
of fresh air she should have and Is happy
| None Of the once popular bust inn
proyers" OF wire, haircloth, air cushions.
or curled hair are tolerated now The
woman with no bust at all Is the modiste's
delight, for she Is convinced that not even
the Creator himself design such raw
ishiug curves and gracious slopes as she
can produce with her wadding and whale
bone just now the small. low bust Is the
thing most desired, and very little padding
is used save to ill hollows about the arm,
where 1t is lberally supplied both at the
back and front Hollow chests are made
to look full and beautiful with layers of
wadding cleyerly pulled out at the edges
to leave no creases where II terminates.
Prominent shoulder blades and collar
bones are set in soft beds of cotton Siop-
ing shoulders are built up, and when the
dress L. finally finished, so sure Is the dress
maker Of the correctness of ts cut that II
II wrinkles or puils she stuifs the offend
ing wrinkles with cotton TO change the
figure rather than disturb the. To her,
beautiful lines of the bodice.
Men talk icarnedly Of the wonderful inn
provement In the physique OF women. Of
the benefits of physical culture, gymnastic
and outdoor exercises, and the dressmaker
smiles as we'll AS she can for the pins in her
mouth. buys more cotton and wadding and
whalebone-and thinks.
TRICKS or THE HAIRDREssER
II must be admitted that less fake hair Is
worn than in the days OF chiguons, but
what Is worn is better worn and more de.
ceptiye than ever before. The fancy for
hulIiness aud the ART attained by the hair
dresser n producing il In straight hair do
away with the necessity OF abundant
tresses. But beware OF the loosely coiled
: knot of hair with its escaping curls.
Don't set your affections upon its perfumed
prettinesa. for ten TO one IL it isn't store
hair And that little curl that always
falls so softly against the white neck you
without shears aud without agony to the
: head II adorns. Fake bangs have pretty
: well gone out, for with careful cutting and
! curling most hair can be trained into q
pretty bang But there are some tresses
, that will be perversely straight on warm
days, and the naturally curly hair of some
J girl who can't afford to 20 TO the seashore
! sometimes adorns the straight haired girl
who can 20.
Never Is the artifieiality Of the fashion
able woman so apparent as when she goes
among her country friends. How slim and
straight and tall she has grown, how light
her foot IN its perfectly fitting boot, how
fresh and seashell-like her skin, how ex-
; quisitely neat aud dainty the fit and fall OF
her perfumed gowns and manifest Her
! own youngest sister looks old aud plain be-
! side her, her figure Is bad. her akin seems
! coarse and brown. and yet the country sis
] ter lives in the purer air and sunshine,
! goes To sleep earlier and rests more In q
: day than the city woman rests In a week.
Q Much Is said aud written with truth about
the wear and tear OF city life. and yet
! thanks 10 milliner and mantua maker, TO
Q hairdresser and cosmetic inventor, 20 cot
ton and whalebone, padding and pinching,
the city woman OF iifty looks younger and
tairer than the countrywoman Of thirty
: ive.-New York Sun.
! The devotion Of the Prince of Naples te,
kia haauf{ft,l ynnthar 0ueen MarRherif0.