Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-07-22

and that in London they fitted her
differently. When finished, her shirt
is exactly like those belonging TO tho
head OF the family, with one exception
that is it has a string run in the
back, which, after pulling the gathers
into place, ia hanlei around and tied
in front. IL opens down the front and
has cuffs and collar firmly on ii. and
when ii and the rest ot them come
home they look as smart as possible,
| Trough tho shirtmaker. being of his
century, charges So apiece more than
he would for making masculine shirt
| This is not because they required less
material, but because they wero made
| for woman.
Now begins the occupation OF man.
| The lovely woman has a cloth skirt and
| a cutaway coat to be worn with these
shirts. A shirt is put on, and the first
\ thing heard from her dressing room is
call for Charley to come and see what
makes the collar tickls SO. After
| Charley has examined the collar and
has assured her it's because it's well
starched she lapses iuto silence. Then
she says in low and very pleading
voice: would you mind putting the
buttons in for me?" He doesn't MUD,
and after that he ties her scarf as it
should be, sticks the pin in after the
| proper fashion, and then she shows
him the little tab with her initials on
| which she fastens to the band of her
shirt. Charley rather SCOTS at this,
hut after she's all dressed and he sees
her beautiful delight in the shirt that
is really and truly like mans he
wouldn't object TO accepting the po-
sition OF latly's maid TO every charming
| girl who has really rightly shirt. :"
The newest hat seems to be some
what after the shape nf that worn hy
the lady warriors of Egypt, which con-
sisted OF one bird put Just in front,
with his wings shaping toward the
sides and collection OF the tails and
wings of othsr birds standing up in tha
centre. This doesn't sound as if the
new hat we're pretty, and yet it is. but
it does Impress you as being distinctly
| Egyptian. 1t must be entirely white.
For that reason brunettes will loo k
hetter in 1t than blonds. Did you ever
think that, while they seemed to have
fancy for wearing tho sacred bird and
the sacred flower on their heads 10
Egypt, there exists no record of bats?
Do you suppose they went out 10 the
burning Bun hatless, risking frecKles
and tan, or do you imagine that they
stuid at home and bad everything come
to them? And will you please tell me
how Cleopatra could have bad joyous
life unless she bought new Easter
bonnet? To be sure, Easter wasn't in
vogue then, but there must have heen
somstbing that corresponded to 1t.
Eve undoubtedly made herself bonnet
Of violets and tied it on with ribbon
grass that was in perfect harmony with
her fig leaves and the delicate ferns
that formed the fringe on the edge OF
them. Eve certainly was woman OF
more or less good taste, ese she would
not have chosen that fig leaf shade for
her first toilet. That particular green
lie 30 especially becoming to clear
white skin, and yet when she had 80
many colors to choose from sho was
woman enough and artist enough to
select the proper tint! Adam took
what che did and illustrated ia this
way that from the very beginning, as
the typical man, he was an initiative
creature.
And yet man is clever. There are
so many things be can do that prove
this.
lie can wear stiff linen shirt and
hutton it with his fingers without
breaking the linen or hia finger nails,
where, put in the same position, a
woman would call glove buttoner into
service.
He can loop a four-in-hand scarf SO
that it is perfectly even, shows that it
has been tied by hand and not bought
ready made.
He can get the links in bis cuffs
without licking the backs OF the
buttonholes.
He can find more fault in half an
hour, upset household quicker and
make more women cry than any other
living animal.
He is gifted with a greater knowl-
edge about everything than an ency-
clopedia and is more willing to dis.
seminate it than book agent.
lie believes in himself implicitly,
and that's the reason he gets the better
Of everything feminine.
He ia Il man, and he regards that as
an excuse for every folly he commits
And really, between you and mo, |
don't know but it ia. But, then, |
haven't what the suffragiers call real
spirit l am what they would describe
as a down trotlden worm. However, |
was built that way, and you can't
change Jour spots, can you? And from
the very beginning | was spotted as a
woman, and nobody who knows would
ever credit with being anything else
her whose signature in early English
or vertically is Bah.