Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-08-19
PRETTY GOWNS FOR
GROWN GIRLS
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HER HIS
TORY THE FRENCH MAIDEN IS
WEARING FASHIONABLE
DRESSES.
STYLES FOR NEW B0DICES.
Skirts VIII Be Much Trimmed But
There is Word That TUNES VIII
Soon Disappear-Some Fashionable
Trimmings.

TROUVILLE, August 9.-The French
girl is emerging from the severely
prosaic condition in which her
! mother has always kept her into one
that is more agreeable for the girl and
certainly more attractive to the out
side world.
1t is a wonder that the French girl
has ever married. Kept IN the nursery
and the schoolroom, denied the pleas
| ures Of the world, seldom or never
visiting the theatre or opera, going
| nowhere and seeing no one, she has
grown up a big-eyed innocent creature,
as unlike the American girl as it is
possible to picture her.
After her marriage, which was al
ways arranged by her parents, the
shrinking French girl emerges into the
society woman. no longer timid, nor
retiring, but with her whole life, bent,
| apparently, in making up for the time
she lost in her girlhood.
The Misses Van Allen, daughters Of
J. ]. Van Allen, the wealthy American
who was appointed to the Court of
Italy by President Cleveland, but who
resigned from diplomatic reasons, were
| educated in France, after their
mothers death. which occurred when
| they were tiny children. To their hor-
rOr they were allowed no pleasures be-
You'd few most simple ones; such as
Mere given to a child of four; and when
they sought to gain the intellectual
freedom of grown women they were re-
strained. So, with Miss Pauline Astor,
| but, in both cases, the fathers of the
girls rescued them and gave them such
| freedom as is allowed in America
Bud to Flower.
! The French girl is being seen now,
as never in her life before. At Trou-
vile the other day the writer counted
half dozen young women of eighteen
i walking upon the piazza of one of the
| hotels. They were well dressed in all
the petty little belongings that seem
part of girlhood. By their side trot-
ted pink flannel young man bent
upon pleasing them. They were
French summer girls-types that were
strangers to France before this year.
| A French girl who formerly wore
| Hapv old tbj,, yD ie non, x,o,.v, ,,,o5i-1,I "
attlred in fine little gowns thct are
designed for her and built specially
to fit her figure.
In response to the demand for gowns
for growing girls one Of the tradesmen
| upon the Rue de la Paix advertises
designs for half grown girls, and very
| becoming they are, with their broad
wasted effects and their skirts that
are made to escape the ground.
So very pretty are some of these
gowns that you see young women who
have been out several seasons copying
them and dressing like the girl of six
teen, even TO the wearing of the hair
! in big loose coil at the very nape
ofthe neck, where a big ribbon bow
| secures 1t.
While the figure of the growing girl
should not be confined in corsets, yet
it is true that, if the woman is going
to wear the corset. she had better get
used to it. as a girl. The girls corset,
as now made, is straight in front and
is worn merely as a support for The
skirts, and it must be confessed that
it is more comfortable to wear such a
garment than to go without it, as the
| skirt bands do not cut so cruelty nor
! do the garments sag in all directions.
Until the Empire styles are revived 20
stay vivified. and corsets are abolished,
there is nothing that will meet the de-
mands of comfort like the corset with
the straight front and the slightly