St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-19

day, and glossy, demure heads are the
whim of the hour. Men will, | know.
be glad to hear 1t, but it is now quite
the correct thing among women to re.
move ones hat at the theater. Theater
parties who come in carriages with all
the glory of evening dress are always
uDbonneted, but in these blessed days
ordinary women in street costume re-
move their hats when the curtain rises.
| counted no less than dozen women
! in orchestra chairs last night who were
| in dark street costumes without hats,
and my heart leaped within me at the
thought of what might be if all women
/ adopt the fad.
However. what they take off their
heads they intend to put into their pet
ticoats. There has been considerable
| merriment and no little discussion
among the Northwestern colony over
the anti-crnoine bill Most of the
women do not take it seriously. but
most of them have opinions to express
concerning it. Mrs. Castle, of Mime
sofa, SAID the other day-and Mrs. Cas-
! tie is, by the way, one of the best
dressed women in Washington: 81
| think that bill is very good thing, ana
| wish it could do some good, but Pm
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their minds that we're to wear crinoline,
/ no amount of lecturing or legislation
can save us from an invasion Of hoop
skirts. If l were a man should as
suredly vote for the BILL"
The most of the Northwestern women
echo MI. Castles sentiments, but | ran
across one who put down her teacup at
mention of the bill and said: well.
dear me. Are they at it again up there?
Minnesota will be getting too sanity
| for us to live in by and by. No wonder
| they had a cold winter. Now, about
,, that bill-it'S none of the legislatures
| business. If l want to wear hoop skirts
! I'll do it; and Hll do it on the very state
house steps if | choose. Suppose wom-
| EN- were to get up craze against silk
| hats or Starched shirt fronts? Don't
| yous suppose the men would say we
were meddling with things that didn't
| concern us? Yet the men are always
interfering with our ways. l don't like
! hoop skirts. | don't want to wear one.
| hope they won't come in fashion; but
| if they do [ mean to wear one, no matter
| if the whole state of Minnesota tells me
l can't. If a woman will, she will, and
! you may depend ont; if she won't, she
won't, and there's an end ont Laws
can control lots OF things, but fashion
| isn't one of these things"
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| Among the we'll dressed foreign wom-
Ell here, the Spanish minister's wife is
to my mind quite the best dressed one.
She is rather large woman and dark.
! She looks like a French woman rather
than a Spaniard, and the bonnets she
wears are the essence of French mil
! linery art. She is usually dressed SIM
ply and elegantly. but with that eXQuis-
! ite air of completeness so few American
women have. The women from the
! Orient, poor little things, dress after
Partisan models, forsaking their grace
| full becoming dress for the stiff
whaleboned attire of wcll-bred Euro
pean women. They look exceedingly
| uncomfortable in it, for the most
part. The Japanese minister, Coco Ia
teno, and his wife go about great deal,
! and one sees the little Japanese wOm-
ans childishly. appealing face nearly
| everywhere. The minister seems TO
enjoy himself hugely, and, in common
! with the other foreign ministers, ad-
mires our American women exceeding
! ly, but his wife is very timid and quiet.
| She wore French gown to one of the
closing teas of the season. 1t was an
elaborate affair of old rose faille, with a
| bit Of sable edging, and long train. 1t
was tight. and it looked tight, and the
wearer looked anything but picturesque.
/ Her yellow little face under an unbe-
coming pile OF millinery wore an eX-
preston of patient endurance. If Eu-
ropean dress is to be adopted by civil
| lied people all over the wortd-which is
a great pity--it does seem that European
artists ought to devise some costume
which would be at the same time COM
| Portable and artistic.
! RUTH kIMBALL.