Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-24
'Fireny,"
Chestnut Ridge,
Alton,

"Addressed"!!? If this form ever ex-
listed among smart people, it Is certainly
obsolete Its career was ended long be-
fore my time, in the days when grand
mother wrote In small, neat script, and
used blue 'foolscap paper for her love
letters to dear grandpapa. 1t suggests
gravestones and canal-boats, and worm
eaten looms and spinning wheels. and
things. All very picturesque, of course,
in the setting; but / should be more
than q little shocked IL 1 were asked to
a smart house in town TO partake of
buttermilk, battercakes, and molasses,
at I'm the afternoon. A lovely letter,
delicately gotten up, was couched briefly,
thus.
"Wlll you please tell me what Is the
leading color this fall, and what shades
are most becoming to a girl with pale
blue eyes, rather sandy hair and COM
plexion inclined to be red? Also, do you
think 1t is a sin to indulge in flirtation?"
GEORGIANNA.
BE CAREFUL.
think. George, my child, that
unless you are very careful IN Sc
lecting your shades" you will be alb
solved from all the sins Of Irritation. The
category Of your charms, unadorned, II
seems to me, viii keep you where the
fox was when he missed the grapes. But
there Is hope. You should wear only
neutral shades-gray; gray as the somDre
shades of twilight with the west WIND
rising for a storm. This would do for
walking dress. Gray like the early
dawn. mild and light, is your sure refuge.
| have seen girls OF ford compilations
ard light eyes look positively pretty,
daintily dressed in pale gray gowns OF
soft, gauZy materials. because the low
tint harmonizes exquisitely with the red
of the face and accentuates the color, or
want of color. in hair and eyes. Also. !
once knew a maiden with pale blue eyes
wan complexion, and red hair, who per-
sistently wore n blue tissue veil just as
long as the fashion lasted. She had the
mistaken idea that II was very becoming.
but she looked like the United States flag
in red, white, and blue, with all the color
dashed from her eyes into faded spots.
Since the human lego" is as diversified
in form and color as any other handi-
work of nature. there is not, and Will
never be, leading color in fashion; the
fancy only reaches a limit And yet be-
lieve IL il were not for the charm OF
color fashion would become hideous. And
fashion comes from no one knows where.
1t is an unsolved mystery, these changes
in forms. colors, and combinations.
ARE VERY RARE.
1t is certain that in colors fashion is
far nearer to n correct standard than IN
lines and variations of forms. Fine lines
and simple forms are rare, but the dis
cords of color are rarer yet. 1t Is
singular thing that antiquity gives US en-
during examples OF beauty and symmetry
of form, but almost nothing OF color!
And all the charm OF color Is womans s.
for tho well-dressed man Is to-day
plaster of white on a background OF
black: There is no seriousness, no range
of color, no grace OF fulness. Color IL
banished; grace and mutable forms I'M
known. IL women's fashions are por-
rowed from the loom Of nature, men
are cut from the gloom OF midnight.
However, In a fad that promises as much
for one sex as the other, men can claim
their own. This is to choose the astral
colors for adornment. To find the astral
colors one must go back 10 astrology.
According to this occult science, each
person is surrounded at birth with an
aura, or atmosphere, and this aura mas
It's Colors.
We know that all color and all sound
is produced by vibration. and, at least so
say the learned, the wearing OF one s
own birth colors will connect them by
this law Of vibration with the things that
are their own in the way OF health and
prosperity.
AT least. this has one advantage-we
could not infringe on the rights of others.
The astral colors for person born from
September 18th TO October 18th are crimj-
son, black, and light blue. Iany ladies'
now select their costumes from their ma
tive colors, and, properly combined, they
invariably prove becoming. The which.
our friend, Georgianna, might take into
consideration and forward results.
HOW THEY CHANGE.
have read something else about these
aura vibrations that would likely change
ones fashion in colors as quickly as ever
the tickle goddess turned at the bid of
royalty. 1t is that the astral colors
| change according to the mental develop
ment of a person. and become radiantly
beautiful, or otherwise, as the mind
dyells on good or bad topics. This Is all
very clear. If we want 10 wear becoming
colors we must make them, only be very,
very good, and we may look just too
lovely for anything" Seriously. have not
thought photographers are trying TO hit
at? They photograph sin and wicked
people in blaze of red-all shades OF red,
from lurid brick red to crimson PURITY
and Innocence and children are portrayed
In an aureole OF white and silvery rays:
Though thy sins be as scarlet, they shall
be made whittier than snow" The Scrip
tural comparison Is probably only SYM
boil. Jealousy is of green-as the green,
NJ aRN-and envy and