Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-17
.PER|PATET|C ZOO"
Another Name for the Up-to-
Date Girl.
HER FEARS ONE INSECTS
SHOCKS oLD-FAsHIoNED STAND
ARDS BY NEW TASTES.
All the Beasts in Noah's Ark CLEAN
on the Modern
Maiden.
HER FEARS ONE INSECTS
Written for The Evening Star.

| Written for The Evening Star.
| Daughter. will you please remove that
| creature that you are wearing at your neck
| for the present. asked oid-fashioned
| mother in pleading tones at the breakfast
| table the other morning OF the big. clear
| skinned. clear-eyed college girl who was
| sitting opposite her.
| THAT creature was big silver spider
| with jeweled eyes. a clever specimen OF
| the jewelers. art-a brooch. but realistic
| insect.
YOU poor little MOTHER said the girl a
| moment later when she returned without
| the Objectionable ornament and stopped to
| kiss the elder woman before she took her
| seat 81 wouldn't wear it for the world IL
| 1 thought 1t troubled you. but you don't
know how interesting spiders are until you
| have studied them"
| The up-to-date girl is a peripatetic 700
| She wears animals and insects of all kinds
| in her jewelry and trinkets, and there Is
| nothing about her which better illustrates
the difference between the young women
| of this generation and their predecessors
| The mother of this college girl has had a
horror of spiders all her life. and she can
not overcome her dislike Of even the clever
| imitation. She dislikes insects of all kinds,
| and snake fills her with terror.
The girl of today is built in different
| mold. physically and mentally. She has
|
| food and is as big again as her mother in
every way. She approaches her father in
height. With her strong physique she has
I lost the old-fashioned heritage of nerves.
| and has broadened mentally with her high
| school and college education. Why should a
| girl be afraid of spider when from the
kindergarten age she has been taught not
| to think of herself In watching It, but of its
| interesting habits
| The Biology Fad
| The college girl is an enthusia site student
of biology and clever entomolog.st. She
| knows the history of the development OF
the lowest forms of life and the habits
| and conditions of innumerabla members of
the insect world. But with all this she is
a healthy. natural girl. fond Of pretty
| things to wear. Naturally she delights in
| the fad of the hour Her entomological
studies have not led her into making a coll
| lection or the insects themselves, but she
has small fortune invested in the quaint
| and beautiful things that the jeweler pro-
duces in this line. She could cover the
| front of shirt waist with them and wear
| them dangling from her fingers her neck
chains and her bracelets. She could be a
| walking natural history museum She has
| however. the best of taste in dress and her
| ornaments. worn a few at & time are
| never Objectionable except to those women
| who. like her mother, have a nervous dread
| of them.
| Nothing Is more beautiful in tewelry than
| the jeweled butterflies now made The
| brilliant coloring of the insects is repro
| duced in many different colored stones and
the bodies. less true to life. but more eff
| fective. are made Of opals or diamonds or
| other single stones of large size Grass
| hoppers. beetles and wasps are also made
into brooches. barette pins for the hair or
| mounted for stick pins. They are made
| of plain silver or gold, with possibly Jewell
| ed eyes or set soidly with Jewels
| girl who Is interested in insects wears
| them not only in this FORM but Introduces
| them into her clothes. Butterflies are en-
brOidered on underwear or inset In lace in
| the fronts of pretty bodices. and are even
set IN lace into pretty hosiery for the girl
who can afford them. 1t does not cost as
| much to have them embroidered on hand
| kerchiefs. and wasps and dragon flies are
| used in that way.
Very Realistic.
| Snakes have been worn for a long time
| and grow more and more realistic. In
supple folds for waist glrdles or bracelets
| they are given the effect of scales. which
makes them lifelke. At one time they
were seldom seen except in rings and jewel
ry, but now. in dull silver or gun metal.
/ they coil realistically In the center of a
| purse. as If ready to spring. outline a card
case or form the supple handle for a wrist
bag. They are used in innumerable ways.
| One of the latest offerings in snake
ornaments is a skin. merely dried. not
dressed. to be worn with any belt buckle
| rms. however, is almost too realistic
|
| used for ornaments.
| Modern girls are not abnormal and they
90 not conf1ne their interest to those objects
| IN the natural world which are disagree
able TO their elders Birds interest them as
| well as snakes and bugs. A girl uses her
| opera glasses In summer to study the crea.
lures OF the woods and fields quite as much
as she does at the theater or opera In win
ter. Perhaps she once showed this liking
for the feathered part of creation by wear
| Ing birds in her hat. Now she belongs TO
| the Audubon Society and knows better. She
| gratifed her taste by wearing jeweIed swal-
lows pretty enameed wild goose stick pins
| 4 tiny chicken dangling from a finger ring
| or chanticleer pendant from her bracelet
Has Elephants, Too.
Large animals are not omitted in the
| girls geological collection. Elephants
heads are beautiful in gray silver on belts
or stick pins, and they vie with snakes and
1.-the tigers in ornamenting the edges OF
expensive purses and card cases. France
sends us many things of this kind. One
| quaint clasp shows two rams standing
| back to back their heads bent, fore feet In
the air and hind feet forming a point
the lower part. A buckle like this, made o,
silver. will cost $40. and is not dear.
bat with spread wings Of dark pearl 4.
realistic with his diamond eyes. and Is
effective at the front Of high dog collar
for the neck. There are brooches showing
hunting scenes. with horses and riders
with pink coats set in gold in the form OF
whip, dogs heads and horses heads in nat
ural colors under glass, and in gold, silver
or set with diamonds.
Domestic animals are growing in pop
ularity, and the cat is frequently seen
Black cats are liked as mascots, and have
entered the lists with the four-leafed ciov-
ers and little pink pigs as luck-bringers.
Pussy is also in black and white in a
brooch or curled up on fan. and she sits
in full figure stands with arched back
upon parasol handles.
French poodles popular for this same
use, and there are heads of other dogs
elephants heads and birds, some parrots
being as large as life.
There are Hons, tigers. bears, donkeys,
pigs horses with carts and without:
monkeys and innumerable other animals IN
tiny trinkets for bracelets. chains and rings.
An old fashion has been renewed I'm the
two buttin' kids" a band bracelet with
rams heads on the two ends.
Russian Enterprise.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.