Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-15

The athletic girl is the worst sufferer.
This morning a youngster just inducted
into his first ''longies' ~whimpePed: "Of
course I've got to wear these things be-
cause other boys of my size do; but l
can't run in 'em. I'll lose as much as a
second on my hundred yards record"
Such is the difference between knick-
erbGckers and trousers. From free skirts
to those skin-tight is from tennis to the
mildest of croquet.
The new skirt necessitates a new walk,
which is difficult of description. The step
is slow, for the play of the muscles is
| visible. and this must not be violent. A
certain undulatory snake grace is at
tainable indoors; but Upon the face of a
woman on the street anxiety is writ large
for she must not pick up her skirts, and
she may stumble over them. The least
effort at haste offers a spectacle to be-
holders.
The new skirt has to be guarded against
bagging at the knees as carefully as a
mans trousers. Another distressing pos
sibility is the formation of wrinkles over
the hips. this calamity being the worst
sin now to be laid at the door of a dress
maker.
The secret of a spring costumes sue
cess turks in it's Innings, or rather in its
lack of them. The s%oftest, finest and
most sheer Of ali fabrics are used for
foundations: stiffenings there are none.
The new skirt is simply hemmed at the
bottom. If frou-frou there must be, a
clinging silk drop" skirts is allowed
with a few lace frills; these are some
times supplemented by a clinging petit
coat of ribbed spur jersey knit silk,
which is not hung to the waist but to the
bottom of the corset, and which lies close
to the figure to the very feet, where are
attached lace flounces.
The exaggerated tightness of the skirt
/ ic NOT nnnrcictnn with an iNnTnaCa in
the favor shown the overskirt. There
isS in fact, a new overskirt which, to carry
out the pseudO-classic idea, is called a
peplum, and is as scant and clingtng as
the underskirt. The peplum is sometimes
very long, the dress skirt being reduced
to a petticoat flare below it; sometimes it
is pointed shaWl-wise back and front, and
sometimes it is draped high on one side,
as in certain pictures Of angles whose
skirts are ostentatiously hitched up and
buckled to show the right leg, the left one
being covered.
1t is not necessary that overskirt and
underskirt should be of the same material
and this latitude is sometimes utilized in
the joining of two vivid cOlOrs for out
door dress, but oftener results in the adj
dition of flmy, lace-like overdresses tc
costumes of heavier fabrics.
The golden side to the shield of the
summer fashions is the beauty Of fabrics
and of colorings. No dress can be wholly
bad when carried out in the delicate
cloths, the soft, lowered silks and the
shimmering, cObwebby, transparent
stuffs now in vogue. Ethereal, fairy-like
woven sunshine and cloud, these things
refuse to be vulgarized.
Pale blue o~rgandies, lowered muslins
trimmed with ribbons and lace and dainty
foulards with half-length dress sleeves
and lace or chiffon undersleeves promise
many things good to look at. Very sheer
veilings, batistes, poplin as hin as gren.
adines, mountains of dotted Swiss an(