Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-04-25
WOMEN AND DRESS.
A Few Rambling Observations by . Man Who Thinks He Knows
 Something About It.

Authorities say there are more wom- en than men in the world. Also, there are more varieties. Every woman is different variety-in fact, but two are chief, those who know how to dress and those who don't.
 A gentleman is defined as one who is superior to his clothes, but the lady is known by them. Lady, therefore, is the first of the above-named two varie- ties.
 Now it does not follow that lady is one who is given to wearing gay gowns and giddy garments. Fine feathers may make fine birds, but crow would look awkward with peacock's tail.
 The demure little lady with the pale complexion and dark impid eyes and such a general air of sugar and sini- plicity knows that a plain gown of black or gray is just the thing she needs to complete the picture. Her frock will be plain to painfulness-on another girl but she knows what suits her. If she can only get one of those chuck-me- under-the-chin bonnets and look up in- quiringly from beneath ns brim she knows the picture is perfect.
 By the way, what dog she inquire when she gives this glance? It may DC, as MT. Gilbert said, that she is wonder ing what or earth this world can be, but the chances are that she is silently and innocently inquiring if she isn't the sweetest thing in sight.
 There are women who should always wear light and feathery, airy-fairy, puffy creations in costumes. These are usually the tall or medium-sized, will lowy, blond type. Frills and furbelows are to them what fieecy clouds are to a summer sky.
 As for the tailor-made girl, she is all right in the daylight, but not after dark.
 Women are never vain. The one who stands haE an hour before a mirror is merely looking for chance to improve her appearance. She is never satisfied with herself five minutes at a time, and surely that is not vanity. Women are merely jealous or patronizing or cov- etous.
 There are some women who can tell dear sister that her dress or bonnet is a dream and then describe it as a freak to another, but that comes from envy. IL all depends upon ones point of view. There may be a little deceit in it, but what is more natural than deceit?
 By the way, meant to have said that there are lots of young women vho are not demure brunettes, nor yet will lowy blOnds nor tailor-made girls, wEo dress well. They always keep the pie ture in mind. They take liberties with Mime. Fashion, but they always study for the picture, although the use of paint is usually deplored.
 Now, that is what catches the average mar. He does not go into the details of dress unless he is employed in the woman's department of a store. The avtrage man looks for effects. \ big hat may catch his eye, but he generally is critical as to what is beneath it. A fiashy waist may stir his attention, but his remarks may not always be com mandatory. If the chief aim or woman is to get a husband knowledge of this is of considerable moment.
 The average man thinks a slack 1 dressed woman will be a slack house | keeper, and he is generally right. The | woman who leaves large rents in her | gloves is apt to overlook his hose and | linen. And there you are.
 But then it isn't the clothes that make the woman any more than the man. Now, there's the woman's wom- kinds of her, in fact, the one they pet and the one they worship. The first is of the confiding sort about whom everyone remarks: Isn't she just the dearest little thing?" for she has a trick of smuggling her way into the affections of all women that they prefer her company to a mans 
 The other is the kind that invites con- hdence. She is usually of the large minded type of whom all women must stand in awe. They do it as women do almost everything, intuitively. And then there is the ''motherly" woman. whom women worship more devotedly.
 The average man when he meets these types has his well-defined ideas knocked askew. He is even more vague han ever on the clothes question then. As l said before, he only gets general impressions, but there are times when wen his well-planned ideas fail him. incidentally he has planned them all 1y the last woman he has met. Of ,ourse, they are shattered when he meets the next one. When he begins to hink it over he finds, as a general rule, hat the maxim stands true; there are 'nly two kinds of women-those who ,now how to dress and those who don't. Home Life.