Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-30


II was set above dark and painfully friz-
zed hair and face rougcd to the limit.
Her sharp dark eyes were preposterously
outlined and IL was quite impossible for the
bit of lace she wore to hide the larnentab BILE
makeup. She was n caricature. so Mephis-
tophelean, as she tipped aft ectelly about in
tan shoes, inspecting everything through an
exaggerated iognette. that felt when she f.
hally got out OF my sight as though had
been taking quinine. I really wished that
had not seen the Snow Image girl first She
left me with my faith in womankind quite
secure; the Scarlet Letter girl made me
wish had never been born.
The Woman In Black md White.
Accordion plating now has a good many
votaries. 1t makes pretty ball gowns and
is particularly effective on a skirt dancer,
but 1t has its disadvantages. I saw a wom-
an the other day who won't wear an ac-
cordeon plated dress shopping soon again
She was a black and white woman. That
Is. she was costumed In those two colors
strictly. The part of her dress that could
be seen below the inevitable seal plush
cape was apparently black satin, rich and
lustrous, but as she walked the accordion
plaits flew open. disclosing the fact that it
was striped with white and the white was
in the under fold. The effect was not as
pretty as the quality of the goods demand
ed. A drizzling rain was falling and the
WIND was blowing gale. Madam came
tripping out of a big store to catch a car
She had In one arm one square, one round,
one long and one badly tied parcel. In the
other hand was shopping bag and an
umbrella. 1t also served to hold her hat
which was as broad as the law allows and
insecurity plnioned to her head. The car
stopped and madam with a half dozen
others, in the perverseness of human ma
ture. having halted on the wrong side of the
track, had to hustle around to the other
side. Madam got there first. having
anchored her umbrella under her arm
where it jabbed the stomachs of the damp
people behind her and the backs of these
her foot to step up and planted il firmly
on about four yards of white and black
satin. She took IT back and tried the other
foot. The mass of muddy satin tripped her
again. a fat old gentleman who thought
shed surely make II that time rushed
against her umbrella and she lost her
equilibrium entirely. She threw out her
hands to save measuring her length on the
platform, and the one long. one square one
round and one badly tied parcel flew in four
directions. The umbrella under her arm
reared mp in perfectly reckless abandon and
knocked or the silk hat of a spruce young
sprig behind her. Her own wide hat with
its dismally wet plumes, adjusted itself over
her ear she landed on the squashy track
with jar that shook the car. While the
men were calamity rounding up her scat
tered packages. madam swooped down
picked that ACCORDION plated skirt up in her
arms, dumped the packages into IL, grabbed
her umbrella and 6ot on the car. clad ap-
parently in a black seal plush cape and a
remarkably plain black silk skirt with two
lace rufflcs and two bands OF narrow red
ribbon on il. q skirt that year ago would
have been thought scandalously short
These ACCORDION plated skirts are worn
also with peplum over skirts-these have
long points back and front and a short
point on the side. but they are open to the
objection | have named. They make a wo-
man look like a peregrinating parachute,
alternately filling ana eollapsing.
4 Wedding Souvenir.
I saw something the other day that was
really very pretty. yet open TO the objection
that II might some day become a piece of
very embarrassing rubbish. II was a mar
rage certificate and the idea was original
with the bridesmaid of honor-a souvenir of
what should be the happiest hour in a wo-
mans life. This marriage certificate was