The morning times., 1896-06-28
PLAID AND STRIPE.
Flowered Stockings for the Sem
timentai Girl.


into executive session, SO to speak, with
ont outsiders. until this story is told,
would do so. II is about character in feet
and legs! Girls character and girls feet
and legs! And how TO jud ge the girl by the
way she gets up her feet and ankles for
summer. There's science IN II. LId you
know it?
There is n character reader who say Us that
only girls of pronounced Iniud play tennis.
He says that tennis cnlis for originality for
bOidness, force and nerve. Therefore, tirid
characters do not go In for it. Neither do
takers. Tennis brings out the the quiet
girls. who would be forceful enough, If
they got chance to show their latent
tastes.
And that's the way with feet. Give a
woman chance TO dress her feet as she
will, and she'll tell you her character right
away.
When you see a girl sitting upon piazza
with her friends chatting try to get u
glimpse Of her ankles IL you want TO asoer-
tainif she is d desirable girl to know. The
gdod-tempered. easy get-along with girl
dresses her limbs in black. II patterned she
will choose something small and inoffensive.
Her shoes will be selected in the same way.
Nothing TO make you Jealous of her. Plain.
quiet shoes. Iatty witbai and well shaped,
but net the exaggerated style OF the ag-
gre essfve. spunky girl.
On the ether hand the quiet. nice girl
DIRE sses her feet very gaudily when she gees
in the water CT walks upon the beach. Here.
according TO her own reasoning. she is un-
observed and she will wear the bright coi0rs
and the fIncy styles or the season. Motto.
her feet closely and Judge further OF her.
Gcod-tempered people have mode rately high
insteps. unless they have danced much
when children. Their ankles are a little
small for the size OF the feet They have
never been accustomed TO stepping with
fierce or Of swinging the feet in an indie
endent style. The better natured the
woman the smaller will be her ankles in
proportion To her size. Apply this test TO
the bathing girl and you will have her
chara cter quickly.
dress specialist once told Mrs Ken
dal that soft-mannered heroine should
never wear animals upon the stage. never
decorate herself with frogs. or clasp liz
ards at her throat. These denote passion.
And BerIhardt has often declared that,
when angry. nothing suited her like putting
on all the nienagcrie she owns in jewels
the flies, the bugs, the snakes, aud he four
footed animals. even to guinea pigs. There
Is direct relationship bet weeD The cross
or 10 W rained animals. and the woman who
wears them / am quoting a little from
the chardcter-in-dress woman. But largely
also from observation.
Look out for the girl who dresses her
feet in scales. You know what they are
those white satin slippers, with small, iri-
descent glass scales. sometimes they are
real je wels fastened upon the silk. The re-
suit is fishy, finny look, very sparkling
But be ware OF the wearer. She will he de-
Ceptive, undermining IN character. trying TO
get a way your friends from you 10 her and
equal to small meannesses. Fishy fins
never look attractive 10 the fair and square
girl. Do they? If you have noticed that
they do. make u note off aud write Your
observation will be the first on record.
In Jurgins the feet or the bicycle woman
you have a task. for she is Il sg.on. But
you have one assistant. She has been tod
she can wear anything she pieases and
her feet come right out prominently as a
character token. The generous bicycle
girl, the one who can loan you her
wheel il your tire punctures, wears low
heels nd high boots. She has "a calf
that shapes gradually out from the
ankle in most symmetrical fashion. Wo-
men of generous, fOrgiving dis isposi,ion
have the most beautiful calves In the
world. There is not an uneven spot in
them They slope gradually and curve
inward just as deiicatefy.
II has been observed that the best
cyclists, the highest toned ones, preserve
a certain unity bet ween boot and stocking
The stocking pattern viii run down be-
hind the tongue of the boot to make a
pretty Ges;gl. But this does not come in
character beyond the one point of Leat-
ness. The trim, tidy girl-the one who
will make q perfect housewife-never al
ows her griter tops to sag or her leg
gings TO wrinkle. She keeps them straight
by some means OF her own. just as she
will run her own house straight some
day. That's an excellent indicator of
cilaraCtcT--thc bicycle girls iegrings.
Notice them. notice the girl, get ac-
quainted with her and see if she isn't
careIess-if you find Ter leggincs falling
down from the tops. as so many DO.
Women who shoot have small feet. All
markswomcn wear small slices pointed
and polished. If In town. For country
they have equally pretty shapes. To judge
of a Inarkswu uman's skill look at the size
OF her feet and their shape. The smaller
they are and the higher the instep the
more ssillful She will be. Tire nerves Of
susceptibility lie there, an! the delioat-s
points. the ancestry, the nationality an,i
the adapiiveness that bespeak ability 10
do small things very we'll A Chinese
woman can hit mark n hundred times
out of hundred. And her feet are tiny.
The character OF Il markswoman's dress
should be refinement. woman who
likes Tue Due SKY. tHc DFUS ana the
woods will dress we'll. She will show
Independence. too. Look at the way she
points her feet. If easily. like an animal.
she will lie capable of great skill, and will
have much natural taste.
Three things are claimed for leggiDgs.
They show three traits. If buttoneI in
the shoes they show vanity and Il desire
TO look well, to the point of painfulness.
The woman who straps her small ties over
the leather bottoms OF her leggings is n
woman who will be vain. slow in dress
ing, little hard to get along with. and
very selfish.
The loose leggines drawn over the foot
like mans gniter tops. an left spreading
around the foot. denote freedom. The wo-
man who wears them would not hesitate TO
go tramping in ..knickers" all day in the
woods. She may say that is not 50. But
you give her chance and you'n see her
fly away. The other point denoted by
leggings is their fit. Notice this: II loose,
sIoveniy; tight. vanity; medium. good sense.
and then look at their shape. II iunpy at
the calf. look ont for a horrible temper
Reading leggings is ike reading the shape OF
the leg. only more siecorous.
1t is claimei that the woman or ideas and