The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-05-31
Skirk8 MU8t Be RUf2l0d
That is the Latest Edict of Fashion---A Story OF a french
Girl Whose Life Had Been Full Of JOY.

New York, May 2l.-Onc must be rut-
fed or counted out of fashion, and then
one might as we'll be out OF the world.
Skirts are ruffled up to an lS-Inch waist,
sometimes mp to a 4S-inch one. ana then
the effect is that of a pillow with Il
string tied around il. But the woman
wbo has not IA sufficient number of ducats
70 have a rufied skirt turns
M her piquant little nose,
declares that ruffed skirts are
common and ruftlcs her sash. This
can be done more chcaply. but 1t is equal
ly effective. For u long time sashcs were
in disrepute. They were given over, as
it were. TO babes and stockings, but Just
now the trimmed sash, with It's innocent
looking little belt hugging the place that
YOU would like to put your arm around,
is 1.-THE thing" Lots Of pretty belong
incs are the thing" with the tiny little
article slurred over, but when it comes
to emphasizing the aforesaid article
then, if you are feminine, You have 1t or
from Il social standpoint you die.
Years ago. when you and | were inno-
cent little tots and knew nothing of the
troubles of this world. we wriggled and
twisted while our fond mothers tied us
up as far as our healthy big waists per
mitted III broad blue sashcs with two
loops and two ends. Such Il sash is not
recognized nowadays.
The fashionable sash. when it is not
ruffied. and everybody knows what 4
ruffied sash is, has its end trimmed
with fringe or lace. and It's bow must be
made tbeing feminine, YOU know there
is Il difference between a made DOW aud
Il tied bow after one Of four fashions.
The first is a gauZe ribbon, with Il stiff,
double looped bow and Il knotted silk
fringe at each end. The second is Il love
ly brocade ribbon. with two loops backed
by short forked ends with Il strass buckle
in the center and long ends that are
forked and tipped with pearl fringe. The
third one has two loops up and two
loops down and Il Knot across the mid
die, with Il ~fanciful fringe having a head
ing as its finish. The other one received
in polite society has Il roSette Sucn as
your mother used to make, with sloping
ends finished with Il heavy knottcd silk
fringe. Those SasheS are the kind hat
the Astors and Nanderbilts, who are not
affected by the rise and fall of coffee.
wear, and they are shown by q French
dressmaker who is small and saucy, who
can make Il wonderfully chic frOck and
can charge, O. we gods and little fishes,
/ cannot understand why. since we are
fighting the Spanish, or at least playing
with them and giving them Il little taste
of what our new navy can do, that
Scotch plaids should he in fashion. and
yet-and yet the gentleman who rides
that ungraceful machine known as the
bike whose legs lack curve, but are
strong in muscle. wear hose of the plaid
of some special elan to which he has
no personal right. while the delivery Wag-
ons of Il well known shop are glorious
in the plaid of another elan because the
second member of the firm happens to
bear the name. that belongs to the-oh.
what do the Scotch call the head of Il
clan? Is it duke or laird or master or
what?
| never think of the Scotch without re-
of the time when all Scotland was attack
ed with the hives and great dukes, hay
ing put many posts to uphold the iron
fence around his private grounds, used
to hear the ordinary folks saying, Good
bless the Duke of Argy,,H as they rubhod
their much troubled backs against these
granite posts. There is something attrac-
tive about the Scotch, but | must say
| do not approve of plaid stockings. and
| must add that ! cannot imagine any
woman who has sense of the beautiful
incasing what the rigidly proper call her
lower limbs in them. Nothing suits a
woman in the stocking line so we'll as
those of black silk. for they succeed i'll
the ankle and foot smaller and the in