The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-25
Wa Arc Nation Poor pennen THE Fashion Handwriting Too Often Changed
The Writing ofISome Famous People,

'ofilC dillOuS cOpic'
because they were 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 hrst
thing heard from her dressing room is a
cali for Charley to come and see what
makes the collar tickle so. After Char
ley has examined the collar and has as
sured her it's because it's well starched,
she lapses into silence. Then she says,
4 in low and very pleading voice: Would
you mind putting the buttons in for me-!
He doesn't mind, and after that he ties
*her scarf as it should be, sticks the pin
lin after the proper fashion, and then she
Shows him the little tab with her initials
apn which she fastens to the band of her
skirt. Charley rather SCOTS at this, but
aafter she's all dressed and he sees her
Beautiful delight in the shirt that IS real
I@y and truly like a mans he wouldn t
Eobject to accepting the position of lady 5
Hmaid to every charming girl who has a
IA 'really rightly shirt
The newest hat seems to be somewhat
after shape of that worn by the lady
warriors of Egypt, which consisted of
one bird put just in front, with his wings
shaping towards the sides and collec-
ton of the tails and wings of other birds
standing up in the center. This doesn't
sound as if the new hat were pretty, and
vet it is. but it does impress you as being
distinctly Egyptian. 1t must be entirely
white For that reason brunettes Will
| look better in it than blondes. Did you
ever think that, while they seemed to
have a fancy for wearing the sacred bird
and the sacred flower on their heads IN
\ Egypt. there exists no record of hats?
] Do you suppose they went out in the
burning sun hatless, risking freckles and
ltan, or do you imagine that they staid at
home and had everything come to them !?
And will you please tell me how Cleopa-
ltra could have had joyous life unless
lIshe bought a new Easter bonnet? To be
IIsure, Easter wasn't in vogue then, but
there must have been something that cor
Responded to it. Eve undoubtedly made
herself bonnet of yiolets and tied it on
with ribbon grass that was in perfect
harmony with her fig leaves and the del
Ecate ferns that formed the fringe on the
edge of them. Eve certainly was a woman
of more or less good taste, else she would
fiob huNc NHoScu ludL IedNe SntluP
per first toilet. That particular green is
| 70 especially becoming to a clear white
fkln, and yet when she had so many col
prs to choose from she was woman e.
Dough and artist enough to select the
proper tint! Adam took what she did
and illustrated in this way that from the
! very beginning, as the typical man, he
| was an initiative creature
| And vet man is clever. There are
| so many things he can do that prove
| this.
de can wear a stiff linen shirt and but
ton it with his fingers without breaking
the linen or his finger nails. where. nut
IN the same position, a woman would call
a glove buttoner into service.
| He can loop a four-in-hand scarf so
fihat it is perfectly even, shows that it
mas been tied by hand and not bought
r&ady made.
HE can get the links in his cuffs with
OFT licking the back of the buttonholes.
lie can find more fault in half an hour.
upset household quicker and make
Pre- women cry than any other living
Animal.
Pie is gifted with a greater knowledge
ABOUT everything than an encyclopedia
and is more willing to disseminate it than
a book agent
lie believes in himself implicitly, and
tn Ms the reason he gets the better of
ev ~ thing feminine.
Ne is man, and he regards that as an
Xpt1se for every folly he commits. And
rePly, between you and me, / don't
krPw but it is. But, then. 1 haven't
wPt the suffragists call real spirit l
ann what they would describe as down.
trfiden worm. However, / was built
TINT way, and you can't change your
spkts, can you? And from the very be-
giIhing | was spotted as a woman, and
NOBODY who knows would ever credit
with being anything else her whose sig
NATURE in early English or vertically is
Bah.