Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-01-28
REDFERN FASHIONS.

NEw York, January, 1s93.--In every
family there is one who wants to leave
the nest of the parent bird earlier than
the rest and explore the world for him.
self
This is the case quite AS much among
girls as among boys, particularly now
when ''independence" is the cry among
so many women.
In every family OF ordinary numbers,
Of ordinary ideas and attainments.
there is seldom more than one who is
destined to make mark in the world.
The struggles Of this one, whose talent
Is so often mistaken for caprice, whose
bursts of brilliancy are mistaken for
wilful, wanton moods, whose ambition
is mistaken for discomfort, are often
very hard and very lengthy. There is
hardly a literary or artistic success
which has not been earned by years OF
kicking" and many tears of disap.
pQintment. In the first place the fedg-
ling must really fly. Fly once and in
public, and the public-that great.
cruel, unaecountable public that de-
cided the position on all talent-will
recognize it or ignore it. The literary
aspirant generally errs by appointing
herself her own judge and her own
public. She has an idea, and mind you
il is rare thing to have an idea.
although there is so much talk about
1T, IL you slft off the fine words and
quotations and the personalities. there
is seldom a good healthy idea left.
Well, To return 20 our muttons, we
will suppose that the ardent literary
aspirant has an idea. While She is
possessed of this idea she forgets her
new gown. and doesn't even wonder
how tha.b b. will be paid, and she for
gets thSt The person whom she thought
she loved has shown some very disap-
pointing qualities. and she is not wor-
ried by certain pcssimistic views which
she has developed concerning the fut-
urc. In fact every thing il obiitcrated
by the idea.
And as she cherishes the idea. il
grows. Grows bigger and bigger. IL
is the child OF her brain and she clothes
II. As mothers clothe their babies in
all the prettiest clothing they can find.
Fine words, unusual words, musical
phrases, crisp descriptions, these are To
her idea what the lace and muslin and
ribbon are TO the baby. OF course by
the time the child OF the brain is
dressed it looks very much better than
II did when il was first born. 1t was a
poor, naked, meager little thing then,
and the author of its being felt some
doubts as to whether or not she should
own il. She has no doubts at al. now;
ii is, She thinks-as all authors of our
being think-a better looking child
than other peoples, and she persuades
herself that it has a very strong
individuality of its own. Even
If it has She is not the Judge.
IL is impossible for her TO be her own
public. As she reads her own creation
over and over again she likes it better
and better When she first reads it
through, after being separated from
it for some time, she is
little bit doubtful as TO its merits, but
each reading endears it to her. AZ
last She declares TO herself that it is
very good and without a word of adj
vice from anyone, without fear for
its reception, she sends it off.
And sometimes it comes back. Sim
pie words those, but oh how much they
mean. Oh, the heart burning; the disil-
iuslonment, the disappointment con-
tanned in that returned manuscript.
No package of returned love letters
ever caused quite such dreadful com
bination of feelings.
Redfern, who | suppose is let into all
feminine secrets in the matter
of dress, tells me that he is
glad to say that the Empire style
although introduced by many of the
leading houses, it is not success. It's
only advocates are ladies whose ana
tonnes will not bear the severer test OF
tight fitting gown. 1t is convenient
style fpr the high kicker" who dupes
the public into thinking that her
length of limb is The apex of well
trained agility. 1t is quaint on the
freshest of buds, but for those WAC
really move the world of fashion, there
is a style which although not SO artis-