The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17

cabby to go at a foot pace, and thus
followed the adorable coat until it dis
appeared il the Junior Carleton club.
A silly story. but it only proves my
point that EngliShmen scrlmp in money
and taste on the Women's wardrobe in
order 10 have that much more to ex-
pend on their own.
an ingenious paragraph in a London
paper last week gave the whole snap
away" as slangy Americans are fond
of saying. The writer observed that
Mrs. Gladstone expended much time
and thought every morning upon the
choice oe coat flower for her distin-
guished husband. who himself was
hypercriticaily fastidious in making
happy combinations in his ties and
walsteoats, though, in fact, he gave
grave consideration to all questions of
his toilet. The paragraph concluded
with the remark that Mrs. Gladstone
was Indifferent to the point of careless
ness in her own dress. Evidently there
is not sufficient interest in the matter
OF clothes for two in the British house
hold. and consequently the wife goes
begging.
Nor does this state of affairs relate
simply to outside garments. coats
frocks, etc. On the opposite side of
the channel Partisan SeanstresSeS made
and Partisan women wear the most en-
chanting ard artistic lingerie in the
world. TIE elegance Of the French
corset and gay coquetry of the French
petticoat are recognized to the very
ends Of the earth. Yet such feminine
friYoIities seldom cross the chalk cliffs
of Dover. As an experiment. try to buy
anything of the sort in London. Stern,
serViceable cottons, set off by hard, IN
yielding Iaces. the whole awkward in
cut AID clumsily put together are the
faVorite underwear sold in the shops
At Bologne. this summer I CHANGED TO
use the same bath house with two eX-
t1emeIy attractive English girls. Their
mother was. My Lady, the widow OF
soldier, who had earned distinction in
the Indian service, and, dying, had left
an officers pension to his family. am
ignorant as to the exact amount of this
income, but the only son kept q couple
of hunters and several dogs, he be-
longed to smart London clubs, and was
always turned out TO four pins. His
sisters told me that their yearly al
lowanee for dress and pocket money
was precisely $40, $500 each, and one
would have thought as much to have
seen the meagerness of their wardrobes.
American girls of equal birth and
breeding would have shuddered TO wear
the cheap shoes. thick cotton hose,
stout balmoral skirts and ugly under
house. I ventured to say that their
brother paid as much for one pair OF
riding hreeches as his sisters spent on
their boluets in q couple of years.
Now the odd side of it was that those
girls had no sense Of injustice in the
matter. They seemed 20 think it was all
right, and waited on the young man
hand and foot, obeying him implicitly
in all things. Under these circumstances
what chance. pray, has the English
woman to compete with her dreaded
American rival. Uncle Samuel's pretty
daughters realize fully what weapon
for defense and aggression good clothes
are, AID in the splendid plumage pro
yided by an indulgent father or hus-
band IL the states, they simply sweep
all before them in London. They are
koWtowed TO by the shop keepers. en-
We'd by the women, and enthusiastically
admired By the men. You can recognize
an American woman abroad by the
perfection of her toilet long before YOU
hear tho swish of her silk petticoats.
She is She most eloquent illustration of
the American mans. wealth Of generos-
ity-blooms like Il rare exotic in the
boundless wastes of dreary English
clothes. MARY ANN