The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-10

last boot that has been so much worn during
the past season for some unknown reason,
IL was always heavy, clumsy and ugly and
made a woman.s loot look enormous English
very impossible and this Ia one Of the latter
fads. Women who can wear the modined
toe and heel are putting In a stock OF these
shoes instead of the heavier sort. The age Of
NANNY clothes has about seen is finish,
while we are discussing the subject OF
feet just a word about that important subject.
the garter. Ono Of these days some woman
who Is at present trying 10 perfect an auto
mobile brake or invent n noiseless car coupling.
will set her mind to work, upon a really ado
quate, healthful garter. The average garter il
not sufficient for the girl who Il particular
to have perfectly trim. neat, taut ankles. The
buckle by which the usual garter Is made tight
or loose Is about M dependable as n toy gun,
u remains in place for n minute or two, when
It is adjusted for the purpose Of tightening
the garter elastic dependent from the belt:
Many women now wear extra carriers fastened
"a the garter belt so that the stocking may
instead Of two, while some add the old-fash-
Toned garter in the effort to keep the stocking
tight over the ankle.
directly on the corset. which is much in favor
with women inclined to be stout, who claim
that It reduces the size. Is really n most inju-
r,ous method; mere heoh y "a q s dou,cp r cendrm OF
The fact Is women have no properly adequate
and hygienic garter: Last winter some genius
evolved a belt that did away with the nnsishtiy
gap between waistband and the outside belt
which has been closed only. by pins iewelled
to make them attractive TO the eye. The new
belt IL SO simple In its construction that every
woman now wonders she did not. think OF II
before. but there Is a chance to think on the
garter question and the result would be a boon
to women II II Is equally successful IA the belt. "
How about evening frocks for summer"
asked the girl with the lnQuiring. mind,
The only sort for summer. said the pro-
fessional summer girl. ARE those of neecy
lawns and muslins and dotted swisses. .Satins
and heavy silks and laces are out OF. place In
the summer; they suggest too much Formally
and state and that is the sort OF thing one wants
TO get away from In the summer time. They
are In quite a. bad taste as the elaborate dis
plays Of jewels at some of the hotel dances.
All those things should be put away In moth
balls Just a. we put our dignity ana our winter
viii this summers girl be as frivolous as In
past yearsp"
~rhe summer girl" said the professional.
has never been frivolous; she, is a serious
proposition, so serious that she has kept her
self in the public eye for so many seasons that
1t is impossible to find the date OF her begin
ming. She "a q mystery and a mystery can
never be frivolous. She comes from. no one
knows where, at the first trump Of the summer
season and she vanishes into no~thingness with
the coming Of the autumn. She is, the one
picturesque note in the gamut of hotel life"
How long Is she likely to LAST"
AS long as there L. summer there will always
be a summer girl; she Is as certain AZ the rose,
she has outlasted all traditions because. while
she has always allowed people to regard her
thing which it Is her mission to tighten by her
presence her inspiration"
And how does she look upon the summer
boy?" asked the mex perienced auestioner.
"She regards the nminer boy as inevitable,
like the potato bug and the hay fever and The
Jersey mosquito. He IL part of natures plan
and for that reason she let's him live"