The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-09
* GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.

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Pittsburg Dispatch. Another explanation
is that it emblemizes the linen cloth
which was laid OH the heads of both
bride and groom, and remained there I'M
til after the benediction had been pro-
nOunced.
In the days of the primitive Britons
the bride wore no veil, but allowed her
abundant locks to fall about her shout
ders. The fashion was prevalent with
both mobiles and serfs: Even as late as
the reign of Henry. VIII. brides wore
their hair in this simple fashion. The
Silken locks of Anne Boleyn tloated about
her on the day Of her ill-starred nuptials.
HOLDING UP SKIRTS.
Oh, wad some power the giftie gle u.s.
10 see oursels as others see us!
What inspiratiOn-what moving, throb-
bling inspiration-would Bobby Burns
have found could he have stood for few
moments ut crowded city street cross
ing today and observed the human cine
matograph pictures of shopping feminin-
ity in dragging yet uplifted skirts. Is it
not likely that a few startling stanzas
1t must be that womer. do not always
profit by observation. Each woman
sees what humpy caricature every
other woman makes of herself, yet
straightway follows her wake with
hump quite as dreadful, if not more so.
ing for car. Perhaps the pavement is
running with water, and skirts must be
held high to escape Il wetting. Like an
endless chain every woman views the
woman just ahead of her, and thinks
what an ungraceful picture of ugly lines
she makes, with gown clutched here,
there or anywhere, creating funny bumps,
bullying humps and strangely shaped dis
requirements that must needs bring a
chuckle Of Intoxicating amusement 10 the
humorously inclined.
And all the while the critic herself is
being criticised by the woman just he
hind her.
These arc days of details. The up-to-
date, well-groomed woman knows this.
She dusts her hat carefully. has her smart
calfskin boots properly shined to Il dusky
glow. keeps her well-tailored gown in
dustless repair, and looks after her gloves
q; H. general nd traPpings: AS she stands
is picture of trimness-like a jaunty
yacht or Il fine race horse. But once upon
the street she clutches at the back
breadths of her gown, and 10! the picture
OF smartness and neatnesS departs, and
in its placelike Hyde and Jekyll
graceful lines extend only to the last row
of stitching on her snugly- fitting jacket.
There is a right way and Il wrong way
to mold up a street skirt, says Helen
Follett in the Chicago Times. Judging
by the examples one sees. there is only
one way-and that the hit-or-lniss grab
blng at any spot most conveniently with
III grabbing distance.
The funniest fashion of all in which
skirt grabbing femininity INDUCES is seen
when the tOeing-in girl-who likes to do
everything thoroughly while she is about
skirts midway between the hem and belt,
and then by raising her hand about
twelve inches, makes the upper part of
the back Of her gown take on the rotund
appearance OF large pumpkin. while the
lower portion hangs Ill skinny plaits, dis
playing two well-worn, turnover heels
that are fitting companions for the in
directed toes.~
Occasionally the observer sees Il woman
who takes one side of her skirt, and,
bringing it up in front of her. winds
herself up like a silkworm. From be
hind she resembles slate pencil or a
BARRIERS pole
the ground. The rest. particularly the
part at the heels. is a nice little dustpan,
OH which she kicks up the mud of the
streets.
But these are only few of the types.
No doubt the woman who makes the
most mirth-compelling chrome of herself
is she who gracefully tits her pctticoats
up in front and allows yards of storm
serge to do the work Of the street clean
ing department.
Sometimes we see Il woman who thinks
she knows how to hold up her gown, but
really doesn't. She Frances along with
gay tippancy that is not one whit less
mirth provoking than the country lady
with her budgets and uplifted side
ly-htt1ns ssszida essl6ve.i,sskss be
low the belt, and is raised upward so that
the skirt facing clears the mud puddles
by two or three inches. BY taking the
skirt directly in the center of the back.
every part of the hem is raised uniform
~, and no part can possibly touch. unless
it be the front breadth. and even that is
lifted half an inch or more by the tug
from the back. With shoulders back.
chest out chin up, and correct carriage
this careful poise of the skirt does not
detract from the figures grace
And it's just as easy as rolling off ii
log.