Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-02-28

bernard toquette, or rather | was, fof
his eyes seemed riveted on dainty
little brunette nearby who was well
gowued from head 10 foot. that Is to
say, she was gowned for the occasion,
10 very simple tailor made style.
Now, there's well -eowDed woman"
said the Gynic, and no fuss OF
feathers, or anything extrayagaDt or
SNOWY, Just simple. -
you know that simplicity costs more
than all the fuss and feathers. Sim.
plicity! Simplicity where the gown
COSTS 800, the hat not less than 1926,
well-turned shoes, bien gantee and ali
that costs, my dear man.
The well-dressed woman from mans
point of view is different creature
quite from the ordinary species. You
see TO every man there is q woman and
other women. When the man is only
little fellow he is apt to think his
mother is the woman. If she dressts at
Nall he probably thinks that ale is the
best dressed woman in the world. Then
alter few years an elder sister usurps
the mothers place and she is looked I'M
to with awe, but it is not long before
she is thrown down by some other
fellows sister, aud from that time ON
until the man settles down to q belief
it doesn't matter what a woman wears
as long Ms she tops at home and
minds the babies, the question of
woman's dress is matter Of real inn
portance to him. He may know nothing
OF the subject in detail. but he ex4
dresses q great many opinions on tho
total. Women are often criticised for
dressing for men, perhaps JUSTIFY
for other women are not impresstd by
clothes, they recognize the internal
qualities under the lace and furs, and
like the poHsessor according TO theif
own supplementary qualities But thS
man who is first fascinated by the fuA
and lace and only after time discovers
the enclosed real woman. hope Bet6
will read the following to Jack. for ~
does make the most fearful faux pah
with his boutonniere, and have just
learned from man who always does
the correct thing, the right flower and
the proper order in which it is TO be
worn. For morning nothing ia per-
missible but the violet For early
afternoon dark red carnation, later
the white oarnaIion. At dinner an
orchid, at the dance gardenia. 1t is
curious to remember in this connection
the fashion for men to wear flowers had
its origin 10 the day when Louis XVI,
In careless mood, picked the pretty
star OF potato flower and stuck it ia
his buttonhole III
What to wear, Beth asks me, and
what to do. They are important things
to know, of course, but Just as i'm
portant is to know what not to wear
and what not to do, and in a thought.
full mood one can watch the restless
crowd coming in and out of o cafe here
and learn deal in an hour. For
instance, one learns not TO talk from
tatle to table in cafe; one learns not
to laugh aloud; not to eat with one's
gloves on land believe me, have seen
women try to do it,; not to kiss a
woman friend in public; not to wear
tn SO startling fur pieces about the
neck thai look like the comic pictures
OF the luggage our Vice President elect
brings from the West; not to order un-
pronounceable French dishes from tina
menu without first looking at the ptice,
unless our new society beau, Georeu
Smith, or Cecil Rhodes, is footing tho
bill; not to have angry words in tho
public hall; not to hold ones skirt
tight about one when getting In
hanson tshonld a woman once sec her-
self doing this it would cure her OF tho
habit; and to remember TO always sit
on the far corner OF the far side lin
horse terms). Por;ia,