The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-05-19

HarleQuin's Advice to the Ladies'.
LeveQue, who is putting SO much
good sense into the columns OF
Harlequin, a most interesting weekly
published in New Orleans, is brave
enough to father the following:
Harlequin observes with great chagrin the
latest phase of luna,y with which the
| fashion setter of feminine dress is afflicted.
| Not that it is any of Harlequin's business,
| dear girls-bless your heart, wear what you
| want-wear what you want.
But by way of keeping informed, Will
| some one kindly tell me the name OF the
| idiot responsible for that immense bolster
| now being worn on the hip? What dis
grace! What a shame! Away back yonder,
! at the very dawn of mans artistic precep-
| tons, the Greeks recognized the beauty OF
| this line of the gentler sex and called it the
line of beauty; and now. because some mad
fashion plate maker of Paris, or some gross
woman of the smart set. has decided that a
bolster looks better than the line of beauty,
hundreds of women are to lie seen affecting
this new twist of the hustle.
do not why all the women who are
shouting about the down-trodden condition
i
privilege to vote by selfish man and who
complain bitterly of how they are bossed by
man, do not get to work on the omnipoten
, | monster who dares to set them such styles
s And yet, we never hear whimper about
this sap headed, brainless, tasteless, blind
Joss.
wish that every lady who sees this couls
T have viewed with my eyes little objec
a lesson, that came before me yesterday, o.
this new fashion matter. bejewele'
woman, flashing in silks and rustling ik
sycamore leaves, the very supreme type o
a vulgar bad-taste and disgusting ostentation
Y passed by with the biggest exaggeration G
the new hip-bustle fad have yet got out i
the street to allow room on the side-~al
:. for. Men, women, children and dog
stared and one pup, more absorbed than hi
lcompanion, was run over by dray, as th
fashion keeper passed. Even nearby pa
rot opened wide his green eyes in great a.
: constituent and said, s.Golleegosh!" and
), small boy, who was evidently taking lessor
a in good breeding from the parrot sale
; | saint a smasher!''
Just in the wake of this great woman, WI
buys her silks from Paris and borrows HI
e taste from her ill-advised washer-woma'
4. came modest, poor little Italian girl,
m eighteen, neatly clad in somewhat fade
~ dress which chung to her natural hgu
whose beauty of outline was intensified
- her sprightly, elastic but modest STEP
TX Darwin is authority for the statement tn
al in all species of higher order is to be o
e. Served a tendency on the part of the fema
a. to appear captivating in the eyes of II
male. If the naturalist has enunclated
law-and I for one do not propose to que
" ton the great accuracy of his august obse
o. vation-which do you suppose Champion
the admiration of the male beholder, tt
he gross woman seeking to beautIfy herst
at by the addition of couple of feather be
:. to her hips this modest little grace1
girl, content with natures lines?
nc Really-really-this last is pathetic. Nj
o. we not expect the balmoral next?
hit Who is responsible for these abomi1
>.+ tons? How does he look when he has
lucid moment and what power of gun wo,
it take to shoot through the armor-Pl
E" bullet he utilizes as head?
Robt Mckee, Of New Iberia, W
TIC CrrIox,