The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-24

ever changing catseye Is her choice. for
IL will fetch her good luck, or, prettiest
OF all, she may take the turquoise. that
perfect blue, cool looking gem. because
IL will make her friends true to her.
but whichever has been her choice IL
must appear in the handle Of her par
asol, the brooch at her neck, the rings
on her fingers. the buckles on her shoes.
the comb in her hair. as well as the
necklace that encircles her pretty neck.
The Frenchwoman is nothing II not
consistent, and when she chooses a
color or a gem II reigns triumphant
until another caprice causes her to
cast II aside and forget it.
The most severe critic of the belong
ings Of womankind is the laundress.
She gauges ones social position as well
as the length of ones purse by the kind
OF underwear she has IL in her power
to make beautiful or otherwise. Too
often she prefers that they shall be
otherwise. and rags and rips and bits
OF torn lace are all that represent much
money and the laundress' strength of
hand. One bit OF machine sewing on
fine underwear. and your laundress dis
approves OF you. The young woman
who has decorated her belongings with
better do her own washing and develop
the muscles OF her arms If she wishes
to retain in the eyes OF her laundress
the position which is hers by right The
wise maiden has but a few pieces of
each kind OF underwear. but her lingerie
is fine OF its kind, and whether she
chooses to wear linen cambric, silk,
nainsook or lawn the sewing must be
of that wonderful kind which is done
in the convent or else, being equally
fine, the work OF some decayed gentle
woman who is paid a very good price
for it, While the silk petticoat has re-
tained its vogue, fine materials that
wash better than silk are chosen for
garments that must touch the skin.
But. oh. the wonderful petticoats The
very latest, which is as carefully fitted
as If IL were a glove, being smooth about
the hips and flaring below the knees,
Is OF pale gray and lavender changeable
silk with its front and sides hand en-
broidered in hower-de-luce in white
silver and gold thread. Every stitch Of
the embroidery is done by hand and the
flowers are so close together that il
seems as If they must be brocaded in
the silk rather than worked on it. It's
cost? Well. IL costs more than many
a diamond ring, though nothing like as
much as a political position. 1t may be
bought for $3.50.
Pity tits, tbs true, bat at the seaside
or in the mountains there is really the
most perfectly open and general use of
powder and rouge imaginable. There
was a time when the women who in
dulged in such doubtful luxuries did II
very secretly and trusted that nobody
knew about 1t, but all that has been
changed. Nowadays mademoiselles
best young man does not hesitate to
tell her that she looks a little tagged
out and that he thinks "just touch OF
rouge" would improve her appearance,
or. IL he decides she has too much on
he will walk her off to some quiet cor
ner, tell her so, and, taking out his i'm
maculate linen handkerchief, daintily
shade IL off for her. Some girls are
adopting a fashion peculiar to English
women and rouging themselves quite
up TO their eyes II is a fashion that
Is neither pretty nor refined. The
English girl lacks the American girls