Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-04

and some sweet perfumes, the woman who
comes in from the cold wrapped up in
furs suddenly feels sense of great wealth,
as she pulls the soft warm wrappings
about her even when she does not need
them.
LADY IN FURs.
You remember 0uiiia always cloaks her
heroines in furs, which for a time they
decline to lay aside, giving the other peo-
pie where they are visiting an opportunity
TO see them in the most picturesque franz
ing possible. The skins of animals seem
proper for women to wear, for one can
think of brave lover going out to hunt
wild beasts that they may be laid at the
feet of sweetheart to form q mantle for
her which will always remind her of the
bravery of one man. That is nice and
sentimental, but nowadays the bravery
usually consists in the man being willing
to pay the bill after madame has chosen
what she desires to possess in furs.
Every woman wants sables, but unfor-
tunately every woman doesn't get them.
The black fox is probably the most becom-
ing of fur; that il, when it is i'll combina-
ton with sealskin. An exceptionally
beautiful woman can wear the peculiar
colored fur that is known us blue fox, and
which shades between blue and gray.
! remember seeing Mrs. Langtry wear a
chinchilla and trimmed with blue fox, and
in 1t she looked like an empress. BY abso-
lutte force of beauty, in imperial robes. she
seemed something almost too beautiful to
belong to this earth unless she occupied d
throne and commanded it.
DIGNITY AND GRACE.
How many women look that way How
many women do YOU know who look dig
nlled without appearing stiff? There are
very few, my friend. The average woman
who wishes to look dignified appears as if
she had swallowed poker, or, as my old
nanny used to say, speaking of astiff old
matron, as if she had taken an extra dose
Of ramrOd tea" Dignity is a something
that comes with years and experience; it
cannot be assumed. 1t is restful and has a
peculiar charm of its own.
TWO dignitied women, as unlike as DOS
sible. are the happy Queen of England and
the unhappy Empress of France. and yet
they are so different. One tiny, and so fat
she can scarcely walk; yet all who approach
her, or even see her on the street, are con-
sclous that she is woman of dignity, and
that while she is kind and thoughtful, and
has been good mother, yet it is beyond
lrivolity, with all about her expressing the
very best sort Of dignity. The other, tall
slender, sad in her mourning robes.
breathes the same spirit. The youngest
soldier represents to her what her son
might have been. and for him she has a
kindly word; yet one feels, no matter how
she may speak IN kindliness, that be would
not dare answer except in way apprecia-
tive OF the position she has held.
WHAT DO You WANT SAID?
As the years roll on it is not nonsense
that we like brought to US, but the real
expression of peoples lives. 1t only comes
to the woman who has been Gigniiied.
Zeal dignity does not mean stiffness or
arrogance, but il is that something which
tells that the woman we are looking at mas
lived out II NOBLE, good life and that the
time has come for us to show her in our
manner the respect we have in our hearts.
Don't you want, when you are few years
older. to clothe yourself in this mantle Of
dignity With years you do not want to
be called silly Old woman, or foolish
old woman, but instead, digniied lady.
Is that your ambition? II it is, two people
are hoping for the same thing-you and
BAB.