The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-27

thick and short that they seem to nave
no necks at all. This is the result OF
overcovering the neck. Our great-grand-
mothers, who, even in winter time,
thought nothing of wearing bodice cut
low, ana who had never heard OF pneu-
MONA. all had lovely necks, hut the next
generation took the low-ncck gown away
from small children, not even allow
ing baby's dimpled thrJa; 10 show, and
the consequence is-well you see the
consequence Nowadays the small girl of
fashionable position has her neck but
thinly covered, while it gets its rubbing
every day with the same regularity that
the bair is brushed. | don't men that
the small maiden is permitted to go out
on the street or out i'll cold weather not
dressed warmly enough, but | do mean
that in the house there are not five or
six thicknesses of material and an lot of
tight Innings to keep the neck from de-
veloping.
However. the woman who hasn't q
pretty neck has a very good chance of
hiding her imperfection ust now. There
are some women with great hOllows just
below their threats, but who have good
backs, smooth, white and firm. so the
knowing dressmaker, having studied the
art of dressing the neck in Paris. cuts
the evening bodice meant for these wom-
en- very low in the back, showing its
beauty, while she hides the hollows in
front with innumerable strings of pearls.
If the woman in hand is narrower shout
der, the clever modist utiEzes her stock
to conceal her misfortune. How BY
arranging the stock proper in soft folds
and then having enormous f1aring fans
flacecmfwyp cmfwy mfwyp mfwy NH
of lace, chiffon or whatever material is
fancied, standing out on each side in
such a way that they give breadth. II
the customer has broad shoulders, then
the stock is smooth, but plain has
neither rosette nor loop to break the con-
trast between the round throat and broad
shoulders, an lodyn cmfwyp mfwypmfw
shoulders, and only an effective brooch
placed just in front as a neck decora-
ton. In the house. where one may have
the softest neck dressing imaginable, the
woman with a short throat must have
on her matinee or tea gown, neither
frill of chiffon nor an ordinary ruffe of
lace, but broad sailor collar of inser-
ton and ribbon, which turns over to
shw the wilderness and roundness of the
column upon which her head is set.
Inc woman with a slender throat fol-
lows the fashion of the day and wears a
high collar or pierrot ruffie of chiffon.
lace, or net. The slender woman, by the
way, must never make the mistake of
having a bodice cut V-shaped That
would add length to her nose and give
her face a sharp appearance. IT the neck
is to open at all and the shoulders are
10 h1 l.
have the broad square, which nowadays
is called the Dutch square," and prop
early enough, too. for it is copied from the
bodices worn by the pretty Dutch peas
ant girls. The wise woman, when she
wants to treat herself, buys alb it of real
lace, for she knows it may decorate q
bonnet, be twisted in a jabot. worn as Il
cravat, and be left in ones will to ones
special friend.
| By the way, if people were pawning
souls, / wonder what they would get for
them! There are souls so mean and mar
row and abominable that | don't believe
even the Maryland coin known as "a
| flip and a bit" which is really 6A cents.
would be given for them. But there are
souls that seem so OVERLOOKING with low
| ing kindness, souls that seem to rise up
and look out of the eyes as if they only
knew sweetness and purity and light, and
| yet in these souls there is that awful,
awful something that we call selfishness,
and which means, Il will have what |
want, and be anything that | want, and
do anything that / want and not be
| found out, because l find the amiab BILE
business is the most successful" What
would you give for soul like that? A
colored Chinese coin with hole i'm the
middle would be all that it is worth.
Then there are good souls that are like
all-wool fiannel-warranted to wear well
and not to shrink, provided the laundress
understands how to wash them the first
time. These are good souls, but not fine
souls, not sympathetic souls, not souls
that seem to know the sorrow or the joy
of another soul and go out toward it in
loving kindness. Perhaps a nickel would
be offered for soul ike this. Then there
are the souls that have much to bother
them-that, Martha-like, are troubled
about many things-and yet they try to
do their best. though perhaps the way is
not pleasant one. generous pawn
broker might offer a silver piece for this
SOII VI SOui anu lHtIt dit oOuiS that
have gone through the fire of life, been
struck by the sword of temptation, and,
like one understanding leaf, are sweeter
than they were before they were bruisd,
and for these even the pawnbroker would
give gold and diamonds, for their price is
above rubies, and the ruby-the costliest
gem of all-means intense love, and for
it souls have been lost and souls have
been gained.
| Apropos of bodies rather than souls,
have you seen the girl who, having been
Cooks tourist in England, now pro-
nounces Charles as if it were in two
syllables?
| Don't you expect to meet the girl who
goes yachting for one afternoon and af-
forwards talks as if she spent her summer
in cruising and wears her yachting cos
tune day and night? At least, her init