The evening times., 1898-06-17
and NOW SIZE
WEARS" p CANE
Only It Isn't a Cane, But a
Crook.
The Intter-Day Girl Will Use Ii Pre-
cisely as Man Does His
Walking stick.

appeared in ali their plcturesqueness.
Girls are to use them for walking. and as
the program of the summer months, 50
far as the modern maid is concerned. pro-
vides for an immense amount of pedes-
trian exercise. the oks will be much in
evidence.
If you linger In the city. however. or
when away are not in the vicinity of
some country house OF prominence you
must not be surprised II you fail TO meet
any young woman thus armed. For 1t
may be stated a very positive fact
that no girls will carry the crooks when
walking along Fifth Avenue. nor Is 1t
likely that any. except those of the
smart set. will adopt the new fashion.
1t is n somewhat startling and new fash
ion. to begin with. and the girls that are
the pioneers would be stared at if they
tried IL anywhere except amid rural sur
roundings,
Not OF the Directoire type will be the
maids that will make use of this long
staff with the crook. The French march
ionesses and ladies of high station of a
hundred and more years ago, that made
it delightfully."- artistic part of their toi-
lets, have passed far into history They
dantily grasped the crook of the shep-
erriess and posed. With the girl of the
summer of 1895 athletically garbed in
the shortest of frocks and the sturdiest
of shoes, the crook is not to be a play
thing but a genuine help In walking
The latter-day girl will use her
-nA fs mi a
mere chappie handles a cane. 1t is to
be strictly utilitariau. so far as she Is
concerned. and having this in mind. she
will have its walking end shod with
sharp steel point. somewhat in the man
ner of an alpenstock. The crooks that
are thoroughly fashionable will be made
of dark wood. and will stand about seven
feet high. They will be known among
girls as "canes." and no girl who has any
pretensions to being smart. and can
walk at all-and all the girls will this
summer-will let herself be without one
In walking the crook" girl seizes the
staff or cane with her arm just trifie
raised. and plants it firmly before her
with each step that she takes. Nor Is
there anything lightweight about these
crooks" They are good. substantial
affairs. and the lackadaisical maid OF a
few years aeo who used to spend the
most OF nPr SumlltTS upon pldZZds Wouitt
have found herself quite unable TO carry
one of them But the girl of today makes
nothing of 1t.
Indeed when you come to consider II.
| a girl who can walk ten miles before
| breakfast. on nothing but glass of milk
and little dry bread, would not be like
! ly to mind such weight At all events
| this Summers girl prophesies that she
will find the new cane a great acuui-
IL, %
beginning to use them, and say that with
them they can cover a quarter as much
more ground with the same effort
1t is very likely that these crooks will
be seen almost entirely in the early morn
ing Long walks are an ante-matutinal
pastime only with most girls. Later In
the day they have other things to attend
to-goIf riding. driving. and so on. but
a brisk long walk before the household is
fairly awake-this. of course, only In the
country-is the fashionable fad.
Not many girls will decorate their
crooks, for the mode is to have them Sc
we're and thoroughly practical looking.
the counterpart as much as possible of a
mans walking stick. But ribbons will
creep in some nevertheless. and bow
and streamers of the national colors will
be quite in good taste.
The crook sounds the deathknell OF
the walking parasol for the modern girl
AS a matter of fact the parasol has long
been dead out of town. The sporting
maid does not give fig for what the
girl of ten years ago would have called
her complexion" On the contrary. the
modern girl declares that sun and wind
and tan improve her skin. The girl OF
the eighties crept along over the coun-
trysfde daintily-when she walked at all
holding her parasol. a billow of lace
frequently, over her face at a carefully
calculated angle. In shady lanes and
wherever possible she used this parasol
for working purposes. The sporting
girl" will have very different air. trudg-
ing over road and meadow briskly with
her new shepherdess Crook. York