Evening star., 1899-04-08
got to be done, but it queers the coat, all
the same.
WOmen's Gloves.

WOmen's Gloves.
And, say, by the way, noticed the other
day that the women's gloves this year
those of light hues-seem to be all soiled, as
If they had been sitting ashes with 'em on.
1 asked my wife about 1t, and she told me
it isn't the real thing this year for women
to wear exactly new-looking gloves-they
must have that soiied look. Idea Is, sup
pose, to throw out the impression that the
wearer of soiled gloves is too well provided
with this worlds goods to be compelled to
clean her gloves with dimes worth OF
gasoline. And yet, If I'd start out for
walk with my wife, wearing a puff tie that
looked as if l had used 1t for a pipe-cleaner,
down, though! And, say, by the way,
here's another knock-about their shoes.
About one woman in twenty considers 1t
necessary to have ner shoes polished.
Don't know why, but it's the fact. Just
notice for a while, and you'll observe that
their shoes, no matter how gorgeous the
rest OF their makeup, look as if they
hadn't been blackened since they were
over with stove polish
Another man of this same species was de-
livering himself much after the same fash
Ion in the course of an F street parade with
the wife of his bosom few afternoons ago.
She listened unto him until he had reached
the end of his string. Then she opened up.
What the Woman Thought.
We'll just take few of the ornate
spring men We meet, now for a change"
she said. See these young men coming
along in their $S.9S tan overcoats, for in
stance It's not the top coats themselves
mean, but the way these young men turn
the collars thereof up at the back What is
that done for-to make them look rakish
and negltge? l observe that the young men
VINO are addicted to the upturned topcoat
collar also practice the imbeciie habit of
pulling the rims of their soft hats down
over their eyes. Is that also supposed to
De an indication of quite awful hardness?
ihen, you spoke awhile ago of the self
e CONSCIOUSNESS of women in their spring
hnery when they appear in it for the first
time, and mentioned their little cat-like
habit as you called it, of moistening their
hps when they fancy somebody's looking
a. a. mem ana SO on. Just observe some OF
the men we meet In their new spring suits
III there could by any possibility be any
human creature more self-conscious-lo look
ing than young man who makes his first
appearance in his light spring suit-why,
goodness gracious me! women are simply
nothinS! A man who has an easy grace
ful carriage, free swing and an upright
way OF carrying his shoulders, will walk
as aWkwardly as a plowboy in new jeans
ana positively scroonch and wabble out of
sheer clumsInesS, when he first appears on
parade in new spring suit. He doesn't
know what to do with his hands and feet
and he fancieS that every living breathing
soul is looking at him and taking every de-
tail of him in. He tries dismally to pre-
tend that new spring suit is the COM
monest, every-dayest thing in the world
1or MIN, but every minute of the time he's
thinking the way the bottoms of his trou-
sers hang over the tops of his Shoes or
whether the collar of his coat fits close
up, and in general he's a sad picture Of
egotlsm. A lot of girls l know make It
their business just to increase the self-con-
sc1ousnesS and embarrassment of the young
man in the new spring suit. to sort of smile
vaguely at his shoes as they pass him by,
or16 hn nxelys- Lii,
perfect funk of alarm when they do this
Caused by New Clothes.
Now, here comes one. Look at that
full-back sack coat he has on. 1t hangs in
folds from his neck down, and it's a Won
der he didn't have it f1uted while he was
about it. Now, 1 remember having seen
that young man on the street last week,
when he was wearing his winter overcoat
and he looked quite at his ease, and walked
erect Now, he's STOPPING over with his
eyes mainly fastened upon the ground and
1 leave 1t to you if he doesn't really look
as if ne had just done something wrong
Women in new finery self-conscious? Why,
my dear, they are the pink of repose un-
der such circumstances compared with you
men.
And look at all the-wen. must say it.
for it is true-look at all the pin-headed
young men We are meeting with top hats
on. l really do not think No. silk hats
should be manufactured. Men with heads
that size will persist in buying them and
wearing them, and making themselves look
perfectly ridlculouSt You men talk about
our hats. and the queer shapes thereof, but
We all surely have enough sense to get hats
that are adapted to the shapes of our heads
no matter how bizarre or crazy they may
be in style Generally. too, women clothe
themselves so that their physical peculiari-
ties shall be hidden; that is. very thin wo-
men usually use draperieS that make their
figures look fuller, and fat women contrive
tn nd eff hat tnair ote
to the eye.
Where Men Are Lacking.
DO men exhibit enough sense to do this?
Well. look at this young man coming along
hSre now. He is wearing a frock coat that
reaches almost to his shoetops, despite the
fact that he is about six feet four inches
high, and a silk hat, Beanpole isn't he?
And wouldn't a cutaway coat, or even a
| nicely made sack coat, be the better thing
to conceal the gauntness of his singular
frame! Here comes short, chunky man
weight. probably, two hundred ana twenty
five He has a light gray check suit on the
coat of the shortest, and the trousers made
long enough to permit of them being turned
up at the bottom. He looks like nothing in
| this world but a globule. whereas, if he
would make his appearance in public
dressed in frock coat, the little boys
wouldn't run after him with remarks about
the superabundance of flesh he carries
about. Look at the stumpy bulldog shoes
that stumpy, stout young men wear who
ought to wear sharp-ponted shoes, to make
their feet look less like the feet of Chinese
women; look at the awful fancy vests
they
My dear said her husband meekly
suppose We call it square, and give both
tie men and women we meet on parade a
er-run for their money!"
There are two sides to all of these ques-
tons.
Queer Mixture.
From the New Orleans Times Democrat