The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-12-29
For THE BETTER -HHLF.

| favorite combination nowadays Is
gray cloth or tweed, chinchilla fur and
vialets. The double skirts, the lapels
| and cuffs Of a tailor-made frock are edged
OF some pretty shade of violet and "A toque
| OF fur and violets complete the costume.
II the IDEAS prevailing here in the
United States as to the proper complex
lens for fashi2nablc society should he
there would lie much scattering and dis
may in the dividing. VIXEN the court
] ItSel was as brown as the br wne5t, one
| color or shade was almost as good as
another-of course there was no diScrimi-
| nation against the whites. But free
| lnter-marriage between While folks, brown
| folks and yellow felix's has brought about
| many a pretty, S1anting- eyed gil with a
rich father. The native wonan who has
married a white man, and whose children
now, when she fears what United States
| ideas will do for her and for them.
Electric caniages-"Auto- mobiles" as
| they are-ealled arc quite the thing in
| Paris, and are net rare in Vienna and
| London, but IN the American cities they
are still something of curiosity. Tbi-
| Water New York has been experimenting
with them, and now il is announced that
Mrs. Aster will use one always at night
Women hare long bewailed keeping deli
cate ly-hred herseS out in the cold rains,
| snews and sieets at night, sometimes fer
an hour or two, when the mistress was de-
layed at dance or opera, SO this is q
merGifs,l fashion. The invention briAgs
geed to both man and beast, ilasmueh as
the coaeanlan of an auto MOI lie can hang
| u wei,nt oa his electricity and go under
| slstssr. The auto-rlo. lie also, once itt
n achi iery becomes familiar, promises b.
be easier to handle in crowded streets,
than are restless horses.
Club-women must never be Judged by
how funny their doings sound, for they do
some good, are almost always sincere ana
| they nre tendi ag towards the better all o.
the tine, so v itil this apology for seeing i
| funny, one tells of a discussion or
| woman's versus mans honor, held in q
woman's club. In the first place a news
! paper compared wonan's sense of honor
| to mans, unfavorably to the woman.
This was the redress. The opening
| sDeech was made by woman who READ
| di I'll )nlry definitions Of honor, drawing
! the conclusions taerefrom that honor in q
ti4n ME. nj bravery and integrity-in d
woman cn .stity. Another woman plo-
| tested az inst one standard for woman,
another for man, and declared honor
meant purity in both. Another member
declared that mothers did not impress
upon their girls such fine idea OF honor
as she gave TO her boys; and that, further
more, women are less honorable in little
thingS, more honorable in big affairs than
are men. Another excited woman Gatl,
stated that women are more honorable
than men-tilat Shakspere's women were
hi ghly honorable, and that that authority
never used the word "cad" Of women
thereby limiting that disagreeable char
acter TO the men-folk. A quiet wone n
said that honor meant obeyiag the voice
of duty, and was a privilege OF both men
and women, and that ST. Paul had spoken
Of "Hohourable women not a few" Their
a pert member said that men were more
loyal to each other than women are, al
which another retorted that men have Sc
much more to conceal that they have
gotten iato the habit of helping each
other aloag The meeting wound up by
declaring the newspaper mean old
thing.