Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-14
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN

Nine. Melba tells London Mail reporter
that while she was in Chicago she re-
ceived a characteristic letter from a
schoolboy. please send along ticket for
your concert tonight it read, for / have
heard you on the gramophone, and want TO
know If you can really get In all those
trills." The boy got two passes.
A feminine correspondent of the Portland
Oregonian writes: mo westerner can come
to New York without being shocked by
the treatment accorded women by the
crowds who travel on street cars and in
public places, but up to the present time it
has simply been a lack of courtesy and Of
consideration. But now it has become
much more. 1t is positively dangerous
for a woman to attempt to ride in the
subway or on the elevated during the
rush hours, unless she is willing to chance
being voluntarily flung to one side, tram
pied under foot, or torn to pieces by the
surging crowds that have neither time nor
inclination to care. At moment like this
one might be glad to state that 1t Is the
people of the lower classes, of the slums,
of the foreign element, but it is not so.
These crowds include men from all runs of
life, and are well-dressed and the pros
perous-looking people whom any one would
designate by the term gentleman
1t is said by an eminent economist that
woman can dress on $65 year. Nothing
could be more consoling than such testi-
mony to feminine frugality at this season,
when little frocks'' cost $50 and i'm
ported gown" $3.50. with plenty of pur-
chasers at these prices But, of course, a
woman can dress on $50 a year. Only she
won't shine among the rest of her expen-
sive sex. Bags of hop sacking and cow
hide boots are not precisely stylish, but
they will dress her" just the same.-Bos-
ton Herald.
"Esmeralda.' said her mother, you are
spending too much time at that bachelor
girls club. You don't do anything but gos-
sip at your meetings anyhow"
There wasn't any gossip today, man.
ma" replied Esmeralda I'VE were all
there."-Chicago Tribune.
In many OF the portraits of the sixteenth
century one often sees strip of rich, soft
fur wound around the wrist of noble
dame. This was used to cover the neck or
fulfill the function of the muff, and to 1t
was often attached a small animals head
or skull, cunningly wrought in metal and
adorned with precious stones.
The first Venetion NUTS were small,
made Of single piece of velvet brocade
or silk, lined with fur, the opening en-
riched with gold or silver button set with
stones. By 1862 the mun seems to have
been recognized as the necessary adjunct
Of the wardrobe of woman OF fashion,
Exchange.
We are no longer asked to pity; we have
the far more difficult task of lauding the
self-supporting woman of the present We
have got past the day Of celebrating her
daring in entering the professions. Mr.
Howells long ago turned his light arrows
OF satire against the woman doctor, and
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has more than
once bent her serious gaze in the same d.
rectOn. The literary woman has played
the part Of heroine from time to time for
half century or more, and now, just as
the woman OF business has ceased to feel
herself an object of interest as such to her
friends. she is taken up by the novelist as
a new and welcome discovery.
1t would seem to the observer of things
as they are that the so-called "phycho-
logical moment for her appearance e
past and that, considering the multiplicity
of her class, she might be taken frankly
for granted. Yet 1t must be owned that she
presents alluring opportunities for both the
novelist of character and the novelist Of
society. The reconciliation between innate
'ladyhood' and the occupations of BUSH
ness Is frequently accomplished in life and
challenges the skill and delicacy Of the
most endowed historian of the twentieth
century.-Scribner's
A Michigan maiden lady" who was found
dead In a rocking chair in her own house
recently has outdone all the other maid
en-" ladies' who ever looked for the man
under the bed or tried to scare a possible
masculine visitor by mans hat on the
hat rack. Having an awful fear of man
and working somewhat homeopat hic
principles. she dressed herself In the garb
OF the creatures she dreaded. Wea ring
coat and trousers. every night she slept
in a chair with lighted lamp beside her.
that invading burglars. or what not, might
see their counterfeit and beware. Only