The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-08-23

enough left for that. She said ooh, 1
made this myself, and it didn't cost but
81 G63." l expected mean she ex-
peCted-him to look disappointed, and
TO pass on with a murmured stammer.
But that mans face fairly beamed as he
looked with unfeignedly admiripg eyes
from the collar to the hem and back to
the collar of that S2.66s suit. And the
woman went on her way not one whit
better pleased with her toilet, but most
devoutly hoping that that poor blind
heather creature would not go home
and tell his wife about it. He did
thought believe he did-because his
wife since then looks at the woman
with little bit less respect than she used
to seem to have. She doesn't say any
thing, but l cant help feeling that she
knows about that suit. And after that
I'd like to know what woman would
waste time any money dressing for a
man. Wouldn't it be casting pearls
before savages to do it,
AS for the other head of my text, pro-
vided a woman is stylishly dressed in
good material, whether she looks pretty
or ugly, she need not, and she does not,
worry about her appearance when there
are only her fellow women present. No
matter what they say about her extrsva-
games or her ugly face or her "poor hus-
band" they will be admiring in their
hearts of hearts those stylish clothes of
hers, and she is very complscently aware
of that fact. To be stylishly dressed
does not mean merely to have on stylish
clothes. You might hang stylish clothes
on stick, and, between you and me,
have really seen that done. To be
stYlisbly dressed means to have stylish
clothes stylishly put on. 1t ID just as
much an art, or a gift, or a talent, or
something to know how to wear, as what
to wear Perhaps it is the more inn
portant requirement of the two, because
your dressmaker might be induced to di-
rect your purchases to some extent. But
the great master Of dress, the immortal
Worth himself, could not make some
women look anything but broom.sticky
or pudgy, and 80 he would not attempt
them. Pm sure do not blame him.
But the point I'm aiming at is this,
that the chief reason tor a woman's
giving her time and labor and brains
and some mans money for clothes, is
that she loves them-the clothes, l mean
She has a positive affection for pretty
clothes whenever she sees them. Yes,
wherever she sees them, even if that is
on the form of another woman, And
whether she likes it or not, she doesn't
envy that other woman. She does not
wish those beautiful clothes were her
own, not she. She wouldn't take them
away from that other woman for any
consideration. But she wishes, of course
she wishes, that she herself owned some,
even more beautiful, and she fully be-
lieves that with that other woman's OPP
portunities she would have had them
those even more beautiful clothes II
she we're cast alone upon desert island
with no man or woman to look at her,
and with no better mirror than a brook
in which to see herself, she would dearly
dearly like to array herself three times
daily in pretty new, up-to-date costumes,
costumes always BETTING the time, the
place and the occasion.
OF course man is in his sweetest
mood just after good dinner Every
body knows that without my telling
I them, and I'm sure l knew it without
being told. can't remember the time
when l didn't know that. Don't you
like TO watch him when he has had just
as much of what he most likes as he
could eat2 With what sweet smile,
with what an unclouded brow, with what
an open face he sits down and stretches