The herald., 1898-01-16
Miss Prescott's Concep-
ton of Her Charms
FAvoRITE COLOR is GREEN
HER FLOWER THE VIOLET, HER
CONVECTION ROSE
Drawn Just as She Stepped Into the
New Year Dawn-Her Mar
riageable Age

The year is young. but not too young
for the girl of '9s. Like Minerva from
the head of Jove, she stepped all pano-
piled from them list into the brightness
of the New Year dawn!
The '9S girl has her characteristics.
Perhaps these are a little more pro-
nounced than those of the 97 girl. Per-
haps she is more sharply outlined, more
decided, more of q parsonage than her
older sisters. But this is to be expected,
because she is fin de steele girl; and
you cannot find fin de steele girls every
year. Her coming sister, Miss '99, will
be all of fiutter with anxiety over her
first view of the twentieth century, but
the 9S girl is splendid farewell-to-the-
century creature, and she Is with us!
The style of the '9S girl may be de-
scribed, so you can know her If you see
her She is not very tall. She has exer-
cised too much to grow up like a reed,
but she is very slender. Her waist is
small from bicycle riding and her figure
sways as she walks from the exercises
she has taken. She is willowy girl,
without being a fragile girl. She Is
slender, but strong.
The face of the '9S girl Is not pretty.
The debutantes of this year, all the
newcomers in society, the new ma
irons, the new people of evry sort
whom one sees this year, will not be
pretty" The '9S girl has good face,
sweet face, a well-groomed face,
sensible face, nice face, but she isn't
simperinglyp retty. And why? Because
she has been through too much to pre-
serve her sickliness of expression. The
bicycle face, the skating face, the oars
womans face, the golf face, the cross
country face, have all been mirrored in
her features and have left their i'm
press there. You get a composite of
skill, determination, pleasure, accom-
plishment and daring there, and the re-
suit is good but not pretty
The sports of the '9S girl will not be
gymnastic. People who have put UP
gymnasia at great expense are fearing
that the horizontal bar will go to rust
and the punching bag grow weak from
innocuous desuetude, for the '9S girl is
not doing much exercising for exercise
sake. The boudoir of the '98 girl has
moved out of doors. She receives her
callers mornings by appointment out
near the mill on the prettiest road, from
there to spin ten miles further out and
back before luncheon. which is obtained
at little inn after a climb up steep
hill. She makes her uptown calls on BIZ
cycle skates, which carry her twice as
fast as the trolley or cable, and when
she gets home she lifts her golf sticks
to be sure they are in good shape (you
can't trust caddies)-and in the after
noon she is off to the links. That is on
exercise days.
But the '9s girl isn't one of these fear
full creatures who must always be on
the go and never allow a fellow any
rest. She has charities, and she slips
away to attend to them. She is accom-
plished in the house and is willing to
work
The pet hobby of the '9S girl will be
the charity masquerade. For the love
of her pet church she will dress in a
Martha Washington gown and comb her
hair up over roll. For her hungry or
phans she will pose in character dress
upon the stage and take your money for
looking at her.
The new indoor amusement of the '9S
girl will be the Art Afternoon, when she
will bring out musician, a player, a
singer, a painter or a reader. She is
progressive, this girl, you see, but never
aggressive.
The favorite color Of the '9S girl will be
green. Green which went out for pur-
pie, stayed out for royal blue, and only
crept back after magenta had it's day;
the most vivid green will be her favor
ite.