The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-08-02
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There are plenty of excuses for trying to be
pretty. Sidney Smith says: Never teach false
modesty. How exquisitely absurd to teach girl
that beauty is of no value, dress of no use.
Beauty is of value; her whole prospects and
happiness in life may often depend upon new
gown or becoming bonnet; if she have five
grains of sense she will find this out. The
great thing is to teach her their proper value"
In Tennyson's Geraint and Enid, Ends
mother says to her:
And tho ye won the prize of fairest fair.
And tho heard him call ye fairest fair,
Let never maiden think, however fair,
She is not fairer in new clothes than old"
SO
In the gossip from London comes talk OF
FIVE foot nine" club of women-that hight
being necessary for membership. Du Maurer's
drawings would lead us to believe that such a
club might have large membership, his women
are always so tall.
The Viennese women are proverbialIy
beautiful in dress, face, and figure.
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The old-fashioned dessert-spoon, in size be-
tween the table and teaspoons, is coming into
favor again.
American girls wear out an average of five
dolls apiece year. A large proportion of these
doll-babies are imported, and in Europe whole
towns of people are busy manufacturing them.
So
Lord Honghton said of certain married
couple, i always like the wife, she is so gentle
manly and the husband, he is so lady-like,"
which is considered appropriate to some of our
present styles. The girls frequently wear gen.
tIemanIy suits, and the men with sashes, soft
ties, and big, babyish, round brimmed hats look
extremely lady-like.
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Black satin ties are the most stylish possible
for wear with shrt-waists, though little white
lawn ones-exactly like the masculine ones
are next in favor.
Beware of girl with the corners of her
mouth turned down." is the advice of pre-
ceptress of big school fer girls After years
of observation she finds that that mouth is in
variably characteristic of cross and jealous
minded maiden, and advises all girls who find
themselves so afflicted to turn up the mouth
corners and to make radical improvements in
their character. man has suggested that
they put up their mouths in curl-papers over
night.
BIuet new shade of lavender blue, is as
popular now as magenta was in the early
Spring. 1t is the color of the cornfower's
lghtest tints, and sometimes bears the flower
name. although true cornlower blue is much
darker.
Lady Jeune, whose magazine articles are so
popular now, has in one of them defined the
necessary qualities for a good talker. They
are "A soft voice. general knowledge, a
power of sympathy, local experience and adapt
ability. soft voice and low laugh are indis-
pensable gifts for good talker, being the signs
of breeding and education, which at once at
tract listeners and disposes them to be sympa-
thetic and interested when they might other
wise be indifferent. A harsh, loud voice often
prejudices people against the speaker"
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A new wrinkle in letter writing is to repeat
the last word of one page at the head of the
next, as was done in old books. 1t comes to Us
from England, where we get most Of our letter
writing styles.
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Narrow gros-grain ribbon is certainly pretty
for shoestrings, be they black, white or brown.
Some women consider it very bad form to wear |
the ribbons, but shoe-strings do look so I'M
pleasantly stringy and cottony. There is an
other resource-silk shoe lacers.
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A new gown just over from Paris measures
10 inches across from elbow to ebow-that is, |
nearly four feet.
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