New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-02


the house. and the following spring it began to
isfactOTy house plant. The experiment is worth re-
cording for the encouragement Of other women
if they thought they could DO IL.
Green. the color of hope and the color Of spring
Is to be the prevailing color this spring. The new
color, Paris says. is light tea green. This will
be in the grdles Of all white frocks for sum
mer wear, viii make whole dresses and costumes
and give tone to all sorts Of hats 1t is quite if
ferent from the Coronation green which was the
feature Of a few summers back That green is to
be all the go is shown by the displays In the shop
windows In a 23d-st window, out OF five suits
forms three were of green. Another further west
had two green walking suits Combined with pals
pink as so often happens this year these green
great many people who think they can't look at IT,
That must have been a picturesque scene when
Jane Evans. cClored woman Of seventy three and
an ex-sIave graduated from Nev-Haveu
evening school Moreover. aloDg two hundred and
fifty pupils she won the prize award, For years
she had had intense desire to learn 70 read but
vas Obliged 10 wait for the letsure of old age be-
fore finding the opportunity for H. such splen-
dld example OF VIII power aEd resolution IS worth
renemhertnS-
Women should cultivate an. interest in mems in
teTestS, says writer in OF the magazinrs
arropos Of the separation in mutual unders,aad-
Of coeducaton and the close association eff business
and social life According u this author there
is no art that requires practice than that %
getting in touch with mems minds. and often
the finer. the mere truly feminine a woman is
the LONGER IL takes her to become proficient p" And
she continues; How few men and women past
their youth have anything in common, 1 am afraid
il is hopeless to expect To- take part in our
feminine pursuits. apparently. The only way
is for TO interest ourselves in theirs-Ind very
good thins il would be for Us if did. 4 healthy
Germs would 40 much toNtake from as the well de-
served reproach Of sTassil-rnindedness
Il had never quite understood what gives some
women who have evidently spent money and
thought in the endeavor TO look smart such q
cheap, common look" said ore of those ma5rosts
who manage 10 be weIl dressed comparatively
small income But yesterdag. coming downtown
in a NIadfson-ave ear. pyzzied il out
Beside me a rather fat. chunky won1an2one.
Of the kind who can't keep her elbows where they
belong by her side because her clothes are so tight
My attention was first attracted to her by the way
noticed that she held her lap a shopping has OF
imitation alligator leather. II vas so osteatatuusy
an imitation that my eve wandered automatically
from II to the womaRs jacket only 20 find that
that Of imitation seal faced with Imitation
chinchilla
Her earrings were imitation diamond solitalres
Her stock OF imitation Ciuny lace studded with
weary affair Of black violets and mauve orchids
was shrouded in black vel of imitation black
thread lace.
'The effect Of an this imitation was indescribably
on was pretending to De something different from
what IL really was: DO YOU think would trust
n she was n ne frona bead 10 loot 1 io1't believe
she could tell the truth n she tried