The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-07-23

thin arms thus lower sleeve must he wrin K led
like mousquetaire glove.
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Another point to be noticed in this cut is
the length of the girl. The cut is taken from
an English print and is reproduced exactly.
In all the London fashion-pictures the women
are exceedingly automatically SO to our
American eyes. This may be because the av-
erage English woman is really taller aud longer
wasted than the average American woman, or
because the fashion artists there prefer 10 draw
tall models, or because the English ideal woman
is tall while we rather prize her to be of me-
dunn size. At any rate, the English fashion
figures seem grotesquely gigantic.
It is said that straw hats that have become
unduly yellowed and sunbcrnt may be bleached
by covering them with thick paste made of
lemon juice and sulphur. They aust be summed
for an hour or SO, and then the sulp hur must
be brushed of and the hat will be bleached.
We understand that women now have pockets
made in their stockings-a time honoted place
for depositing valuables
The Galignani. Partisan paper, states that
tho latest fad in the United States-later than
bicycles-is mules, and hat Bar Hsrbor bellies
drive jet-black or snow-white mule teams,
trapped out in gay red-and- gold harnesses.
A Partisan note says that the latest style for
a tailor suit is to have it of a dark green and
blue plaid, crossed with fine lines of bright
color. This is made up with rather narrow,
well-ftting skirt, short Bolero jacket, and
black silk waistcoat.
According to European scientist the sensi-
tiveness to color not only varies in individuals
but with the degrees of civilization. He con-
firms the idea that has been long time ru-
mored, that tho old Greeks and Hebrews had
no knowledge Of blue as color. Mr.. Glad
stone some time ago commented on the fact
that both Homer and Ezekiel were oblivious to
some of the, to obvious, tints of the rain bow.
However, there are other sides to the question.
The scholars who claim that those people never
distinguished blue from black or darkness
shadows are not anyway sure about the matter.
1t would seem that blue a simple, frequent
color would DO as easily recognized as red or
yellow. The early Greeks and Hebrews were
people who wrought in fine metals and stones.
who loved bright gems and who appreciated
the earth aud skies about them. The sapphire
must have looked blue to them, they must have
seen that it not the same color as ebony,
and the skies and flowers and birds were some
times blue With their keen sense of other
differences in the world about them. it does
seem as though they must have noted this par
ticnlar color. In Exodus We find,
Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten
curtains of fine twined linen, and blue and
purple and scarlet"
We are told that their purple was crimson,
and the blue, purple.
However. we fluid in our own days that there
are many people highly sensitive to tints and
shades of color and others remarkably obtuse.
Some women can match ribbons and silks a
thousand times better than others. There is
an anecdote concerning Turner, or Reynolds, or
some other English artist.
A woud-bs critic said to him:
My dear sir. can't see in nature all those
colors that you put i'll your pictures"
But, my dear madam, don't you wish you
could" replied the artist.
Undoubtedly there are some colors in the
spectrum that We cannot see, that generations
to come shall perceive clearly, perhaps There
are certain sensitive, color.loving people who
find tints and hints OF color that other people
cannot perceive, which ia q reason why one
should deal gently with the impressionist
painters There may be much truth in their
visions, only we cannot yet distinguish the
colorings that are so evident to them. Not
that all true eoloring lies i'll their misty purple
paintings. but if they be honest they may work
out some truth in their visions.
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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN GIRL IN GER.
MAN COUNTRIES.
Our last evening in Berlin we wont to what
they call n Winter gartcn." which is like the
music halls in London, as nearly as | can
ruess-an enormous building all set round
with tables as well chairs, aud with great
crowds eating aud drinking every where all the
time. We paid mark (about quarter) for
admission and it was u performances that lasted
four or five hours. We saw all sorts OF athletic
performances by girls in pink and white and
violet dancing clothes. We saw the skirt
dances and, best of all. there was one girl
who had Loie Fuller dances-a Turkish
Beauty, Sun, Moon and Stars Silver Butter
When Baby was sick. gave her Castoris.