Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-12
THREE PRETTY WOMEN
IN FUR LINED CLOAKS.
Bah Writes an Interesting Letter on the Well Dressed
Maid and Matron OF To-Day

in the shop windows and are sold to
those unSuspecting women who believe
what their milliners tell them. AS the
woman who buys whatever she is adj
vised to is many in number, you see
the big hat here, there and everywhere.
The tall women look like overgrown
mushrooms, and small women look like
candles wearing fire extinguishers, and
the wind plays havoc with the feathers,
and the milliners smile and thank
heaven that there are t. great many
fools still in existence.
However, there is an occasional mill
liner who tells the truth. She said to
me the other morning: big hats were
bought early in the season by the very
smart women, who wore them when
they were driving and while they were
still in the country, but now they k.e
the women who have the close fitting
little toques oftenest made of a piece
left from their gowns. Don't misun-
derstand me. These toquest are not
cheap. The less they have on the more
they cost, because under much trim
ming you can hide bad work, but a
simple hat must be perfect in its devel-
opment."
Ire well dressed woman is without
doubt that woman who understands
the eternal fitness of things. When the
beautiful Duchess of 'Devonshire was
painted and the artist made her ia
nous, nobody dreamed that such hat
as hers would be worn except in the
daytime. In those days magnificence
was the keynote Of all dress, and I'M
doubtedly her ladyship had just come
from a walk in the garden the day her
picture was painted, although she was
dressed in brocaded petticoat and a
satin jacket for her morning stroll.
But when she went to the theatre to
laugh at Nellie Gwynn or to the opera
to hear the French singers, her beau
tiful hair was deliberately dressed with
feathers and jewels, and she took off
after she entered her box the quilted
hood that protected her head from
drafts as she travelled through the
streets in her sedan chair.
Nowadays hats and gowns suited to
the street are worn in the evening,
laces and jewels proper only for even
ing wear are conspicuous in the morn
ing and the law of good taste seems
forgotten. But there are some women
who dress well. Occasionally one does
meet a woman who in the morning is
gowned in the simplest of cloth frocks,
who in the afternoon goes visiting in a
rich silk and velvet and tiny bonnet
and who in the evening is fine and gay
i in bright colors and lace, r;nh jewels
and rustlsng silks and all the furbe-
lows specially permitted tc ,oyriy wo-
man.
By the bye, fur is on everything from
the ball to the dressing gown and from
the street wrap to the opera wrap. Wo-
men always feel luxurious when they
have on furs. They caress one. They
make the skin look whittier, the eyes
; brighter and clearer. and given warm
room, wherein there are plenty o. flow
ers and some sweet perflmea, the wo-
man who goes in from the cold wrap
ped up in furs suddenly feels a sense
Of great luxury as she pulls the soft.
warm wrappings about her, even if she
does not need them. l remember three
beautiful actresses who always looked
their best in fur lined cloaks--Lillie
Langtry, in a sapphire velvet cloak.