The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-25

and she isn't there and | remember the
heavy villain, l do hope he isn't play
ing his part off the stage as we'll as on
it. And ! give "A sigh and wish that
next summers sunshine may look down
on the little soubrette and find her as
merry as ever, and on the heavy villain
with the clearest of consciences.
Apropoa of girls. | am reminded that
we are TO be atrociously Greek again this
year and wear those low. short wasted
bodices for evening. | say "atrociously'
Greek because the right girl with the
right figure never seems 20 get one of
these artistic gowns. Instead frumpy
looking women, who are so thin that
they are painful TO look at or women
fat To beefiness. choose them, and the
result is something perfectly disgusting.
Funny isn't il. that these old fools new
er seem TO realize that while we keep
the babics--the real new babies-all
bundled up, the same rule ought To APP
ply To them. But second childhood and
seminudity seem TO be the combine
fancied.
A lady who is over 90 whose skin is
like parchment. whose bones seem to
crack as she walks, but who because
of her great wealth is invited every
Of low bodices and natural flowers in
her hair! She is one OF the women who
didn't understand how TO grow old
gracefully With years have come an
accumulation of folly. and this poor old
wretch-for. with all her wealth, she de-
serves pity-makes herself a laughing
stock, is a deaths head at a feast and
yet the people who know her best and
90, ho, ct do 40 70 Inf tf,
her that she is dressing over 60 years
too young.
don't read Greek, but have seen
no end Of pictures Of Grecian ladies,
and, though the costumes were as ar
tistic as the Anthony Comstock of that
day would permit. still in not a single
one Of them can | find a woman who
looks over 30 years old. Now. what did
they do with their old women? Evl-
IDENTIFY they did not permit them 10 dress
in Greek fashion and sit on benches in
artistic attitudes. What pity some Of
those people who are always digging
antiquities up can't get hold of real
Greek. Greek Of the time of long ago,
put life INTO him and induce him to tell
how the elderly Grecan lady dressed!
This sounds disrespectful to old age,
but it isn't meant to be so. There is
nothing so beautiful to me as the wom-
an who respects herself and who, being
a great grandmother. doesn't display
a large portion of the upper part OF
her body to a scoffing multitude. For
the women who insist upon doing this
II can only be said that. having no re-
spect for themselves, they cannot get
IT from other people. The fat woman
looks like a food exposition, and the
thin one looks like an umbrella frame.
II you have any doubt as TO the truth
Of what / am saying, compare one of
these improperly dressed old women
with an elderly Quakeress, or even
think of her and then think Of the dig
nified woman of many years who wears
rich but handsome clothes suited 10 her
years and her position in life. Until
the elderly lady dresses properly she
need expect no consideration. but / do
wish that she would think over how
she might look If she would.
DO you ever wish? Do you remember
that Swedenborp said. Man, beware OF
that which thou wishest with intensity,
for il will surely come unto thee?' |
was at Wishing well this summer. and.
remembering this, | got frightened and
concluded not to wish anything very
much for myself, but to Go lot OF