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The Washington times., 1905-04-23

wear the peacock tones. But now the
peacock has come into his own and his
eolors adorn buttons and trimmings Of
all kinds, jeweiry and even silks and
woolens- All are made in the change
able shades OF the peacock blue and
green.
Speaking of the peacock coIors, there
is little idea which comes from Paris
and which might be successfully worked
upon the gowns that are built in this
country and specially upon the shirt
waists. 1t is a trimming touch that is
applied TO the trimming OF the shirt
waist The waist which may be in any
of the spring colors is decorated with
very small and very brilliantly colored
buttons.
Little peacock blue buttons are set In
double rows down the front OF the waist;
and there are the tiny brown buttons
and the buttons of silver and gold no
bigger than specks which are used for
upon each of your silk shirt waist cuffs
and you can put a dozen down the front.
Your gown will be immensely improved
by this trimming
Buy buttons selecting those that look
like tiny jewels and trim your waist
with them. You will find yourself abun-
dantly rewarded in the matter of style,
for your waist will seem like an i'm
ported one. But let them be small, even
tiny, and do not use too many. These
are the cardinal points to remember.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
French Easter Hats.

But all the same the Paris Easter hats
are gay with roses and what Paris wears
in Easter hats all the world must copy.
IL possible roses are worn more this
year than ever before and the tendency
Is TO make them more and more elegant
rather than less so.
Il paid $50 for this rose" said Fifth
avenue millineT, holding out long green
stem upon which set large pink rose
with two hanging buds and three green
leaves. TT is for the side Of a plateau
hat which has been ordered by the wife
Of the richest man In Pittsourg-and
that is saying a great deal in the money
line.
THE lady viii wear this spring a sill
yer gray slUt and, when she goes to
Newport, she will take with her a very
handsome gown of'changeable pink and
gray taffeta. With both gowns she will
wear the same hat, silver gray straw
made in plateau shape, with this spray
of roses at the side. We shall charge
her well for the hat, for the materials
are of the best, and are warranted
weather proof, though Of the most DELI
cate tones. -
And another hat is being built for
tAiC S1iiic pcSSOI- HIS lS Il nat WHICH
has Japanese tendencies. 1t is round, is
covered with little pink roses, is tipped
forward; while underneath the back
there is gorgeous chou in the jap
anese colors, ali made out of the most
exquisite piece of Oriental silk
Surprise hats, some of the hats
might be called. We niiliners plan them
10 surprise our customers, who pay US
very well for doing so. The idea is to
make the hat becoming, then stylish.
then rich. and, finally in accord with
the costume. When we have done all
this we have reached a stage which
might be called the milliner's seventh
heaven ], myself, seldom get there
because Of the fact there Is seldom
time enough allowed Customers ask
for hat, are pleased with It, and rush
on without waiting to have it shaped
to the head
How would ! buy a hat IL were a
woman? l would buy my hat Just as
a man buys his. so as to fit my head
and be becoming. The tipped hat should
always be shaped by bandeau. would
take plenty of time at it, and would pay
the miiiiner extra to bend il and shape
1T and fit 1t to my head. My hats
would be triumphs of the milliner's art"
The Washington times., 1905-04-23

We have read and heard and sung
SC much of the tall girl of late, of her
stateliness and willowy charm. Of her
grace and glory, that we have almost
forgotten those awful days when we
were Just turned fourteen and suffered
tortures OF apprehension lest we should
grow up into the long-necked, long
legged giantess we felt ourselves to be-
Gibson has Paade the short woman look
like q midget Christie has ignored her.
Yet I never met a tall woman who did
not sigh because she could never know
the delight of looking up to man.
Let her take heart of courage. Dur
ing this past season there have been
four young women each six feet tall in
troduced into smart society here In
Eastern America. And every one or
them has turned out not only n beauty,
but social success. They tower above
their mammas and their elder sisters.
and look loftily down upon their broth
ers. Yet they are the rage with men,
not in spite of. but because of their at
tractive height. For at last height has
come to be considered an essential form
OF beauty.
Tha tiny little thing who could walk
under a mans arm no longer laughs at
the gawky giantess beside her. She
shrinks into insigniticance and rails at
her own short" -comings Shoes, hats,
and frocks are all fashioned with an eye
to the tall woman The ideal height OF
woman among the ancient Greeks
was five feet and five inches Our ideal
girl is five feet and eight inches tall ana
is proportioned accordingly.
Take heart of grace, then, We tower
ing damsels, for just now you are the
artistic and social fad. You are fash
iona hle.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23

Watchsd her don her Easter hat,
A nodish thing OF flowers and lace;
millinery gem, / cried
but not as rare as your sweet face
Y TOULD you like TO know wha.
M the leaders of fashion are
wearing these days, and, par
tieularly. what Is doing in the
Easter hat line? The chapeau of spring
IS out in all its briiliancy and it is a
comfort to know about 1t, even If one
may not be able to copy it in all its
gorgeeusness of color
1t was that pretty and much discuss
ed heiress, Fraulein Bertha Krupp. who,
on ordering her hat from Paris, request
ed that it be in violet. No matter what,
just so the violet hues predominated.
And violet hat IL was II arrived a
few days ago, made of violet-coiorea
satin straw. very rough. very plateau in
shape and trimmed upon the top and
down one side with a very garden of
violets. They were shaded, light and
dafk and they were uassed in punches
with few violets trailing upon the hair.
The new violets. by the way, are very
blue, so that they go well with the navy
and medium, blue gowns.
The hat which will be worn this week
by the Princess Victoria is quite diff
ferent in shape, but it is violet in color.
1t Is one of the handsome Gainsborough
shapes, turning up sharply at one side.
where it is caught with shaded violet
plumes. The hat of her mother. Queen
Alexandra, is a tiny heliotrope and
Seranium creation, the most distinguish
ed and ultra elegant hat one could well
imagine.
1t is said that Mrs. Theodore Roose-
welt will cling to her fayorite color. blue.
all this spring. and that she will select
the various shades OF blue, running from
deepest navy and American flag blue. up
into the sky blues and the turquoises.
And 1t is also whispered that she viii
wear her old color. white. great deal
The modistes do not like 70 disclose the
orders of the First Lady Of the Land.
neither do the milliners. But they nod
and smile when you ask them if Mrs
Roosevelt will cling TO her old eoio-s.
blue and white for the house. navy blue
and brown for the street. 'They are
becoming to her" aaid one milliner.
and she is far too clever a woman to
desert her becoming tones"
one OF the handsomest of Easter hats
will be worn this week at an Easter
Monday night reception by a woman
high in Cabinet circles. 1t is in white
and gold, that fayorlte combination.
The hat, which consists OF many folds
OF white tulle, maline. and chiffon, is
trimmed with traceries of gold. Gold is
used very cautiously this season There
are touches OF it here and there, but
not great deal of ii. 1t IS not piled
on the hat but is put on very gingerIy
with just a CLEAN of gold rather than
q loaded effect.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
Gold Trimmings for Easter.

Little dangling gold balls. the tiniest
tracing Of gold braid, little narrow folds
OF cloth OF gold, little gold braid orna-
ments, and the smallest of gold ribbon
choux are worn. This gives the touch
of gold without loading down the hat
DressT women are wearing spring hats
OF white touched with gold: and when
they want sharp contrast they change
TO black hats with little gold trim
ming. These two varieties are suitable
for women who are not very young, yet
they are algo charming when worn by
fresh young faces.
You can do great deal with the black
hat with its gold braid. its gold balls,
its gold ciloux, and its feathers that
look az though touched with gold. Do
not hesitate to venture into the realm
OF the gilt hat but do so with discre-
ton. Of course. and not carelessIy.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23

nave some vogue this year. 1t is to
be worn pack upon the head and it may
be remarked that. while very pretty. 1t
Is more the hat for young, fresh faces
than for the old and passe type.
But the hat Of hats this season is the
little toque. This may be the tri-corne
toque for there is fad for bending the
hat to sharp point in the front. But
the woman who can not wear the point
ed hat can soften the shape of the hat
with her fingers so as to relieve the
front of its sharpness.
The handsome little back satin straw
toque, high all the way around, some
thing like turban but bent to slight
ly pointed shape in front, is the hat that
is the most admired of all. 1t comes IN
straw, in every known color, md is pref
ty no matter how or where you find It,
The ready to wear straw zoques are
really very smart this, season and no
woman need despise Them. One such
hat, taken in hand by 4 capable nillin-
er. can be turned out little later in the
shape Of a handsome spring hat.
One woman. purchasing a wood brown
fancy straw in the ready to wear tur-
ban shape, took it 10 her milliner who
added to it a handsome satin chou at
one side and from the chou she dangled
two short lace ends. Upon the other
side she pinned a fat brown and blue
stone ornament set in gold. The hat
became suddenly an elegant dress hat,
just such a hat as one likes to wear
when one goes calling.
Another of these ready-to-wear little
straw toQues was made dreSSy by a
handsome bunch of geranium flowers at
the side. These little touches make the
hat individual anG lift it out of the rut
of the ordinary. A straw toque or tur-
ban can be dressed up with an ostrich
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
Peacock Blue for Spring.

Women are only just beginning to
relaiZe that there is a richness in dark
things which cannot be found in lighter
goods Not that the handsome light
Cloth suits are not very attractive for
spring wear. Indeed they are immense
ly smart and for q while will absolutely
dominate Dame Fashion. But, when
one has few clothes, and when one is
buying a gown for wear all the spring
and most of the summer, 1t is VIII to
select something in the dark tones.
The spring shirt waist suits are lovely
l., the dark blue ard green checks and
n. ost attractive in deep brown. dark
gray, and heavy violet tlnts.
Peacock blue threatens to he as fash
ionable now as it was years ago when
every woman had a peacock silk dress.
For awhile there was superstition
about the color and many would not
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
Walking and The Complexion

Walking In moderation is excellent for
the complexion. for the simple reason
that 1t induces healthy perspiration and
helps to clear the skin OF impurities. But
never overdo things. for constant over
strain will cause the face TO flush IN
pleasantly and bring wrinkles round the
eyes that no complexion specialist viii
be able to remove.
In addition, if you want to get the
most possible good don't sit in a draught
Just after walking and don't wash your
face Immediately before or after. If it
feels grin1y rub 1t with d clean piece of
channels leather. which is an excellent
dirt remover
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
A Striking Predominance of Dark Colors
Will Be Observed in the Easter
Toilets, With Peacock Blue
: in High Favor.
in High Favor.

plume always, and never viii it be out
III style.
There is always a new button f5td.
Just at the moment the fad is for the
iridescent button. And, though all
shades are offered, the fancy is for
either blue or green, or for both COM
bIned In one beautiful button. No mat
ter what the size let your buttons be
either blue or green. and have them
iridescent and brilliant. showing the
deep lights which make the costume
lCok rich.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
The Geranium Flowers.

Geraniums are used extensively upon
hats OF spring. One sees great punches
of geranium flowers placed upon the side
of the hat: and again right in the mid
die of the back where the hat is turned
up and tipped there are geraniums.
There is new style of Easter hat
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
Premature Grapness.

It is often the result of anaenia. and
if an iron tonic. prescribed by a doctor,
is taken as soon as possible after the
grayness is noticed. it will arrest such
loss of color. BY the way. If a suspicion
of brilliantine is occasionally brushed
over the hair after dressing it makes
white hair much less noticeable.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
The Most Fashionable Hats.

Easter hats are built for all varieties
of people. There Is .he Dig, flat-topped
hat, which IS the flower garden hat
1t is trimmed with roses and other
flowers all massed or laid in rows
around .he brim This hat, which has q
low crown and very wide brim, will
The Washington times., 1905-04-23

anium- We are trimming with geran-
iums instead of with flowers. They are
the sensation this Easter
The Washington times., 1905-04-23

One Partisan Modiste Has Filled an Order
for a Violet t-CoIored Satin Straw
Creation, Lavishly Trimmed
With Vioets
By AUGUSTA PRESCOTT.
Black Straw With Pink Roses.

l watched her don her Easter hat,
mocish thing OF flowers and lace;
millinery gem l cried.
But not as rare as your sweet face"
The Washington times., 1905-01-22
Drew as an Authority.

why should ] be considered an au-
thority on women" This was satire,
pure and simple. If he isn't an au-
thority, then pray who is? Has ever
man donned new frock coat before the
critical eyes of his wife without under
going a mental, perhaps even an out
spoken comparison with the manner in
which Mr.. Drew would carry that coat
and always with Mr. Drew winning by
neck Many a poor chap has stumbled
through the humble but sincere express
sion OF his love for the young woman
Of his choice, only 20 nave IL compared
TO a John Drew proposal with all it's
quiet elegance, its subtle tenderness.
1t does not make any difference whether
woman is fifteen or fifty, John Drew
occupies a place in her memory which
the most dashing romantic actor OF his
tory might envy. There are men with
whom a woman feels she might elope-
and follow into the divorce court. And
there are men with whom she feels she
could live correctly and happily ever
after. John Drew belongs 70 the latter
class.
The Washington times., 1905-01-22
Buried Years Ago.

Bury her? She was buried by re-
putabIe actors years ago. The exagger-
ated creature OF newspaper fame ne
yer really existed The gushing type of
matinee girl went out, along with the
melancholy maiden who died Of love.
after analyZing her soulful feelings in
a diary while her mother did the family
washing. Our feminine ancestors were
charming In many ways. but they did
not really know men. The modern girl
knows men. especially actors, and she
has no silly illusions.
This matinee Idol nonsense has done
more to hurt the self-respect Of actors
than any number Of unkind criticisms on
their work And they have had TO live
It down with men outside their pro-
fession whose good opinion. respect and
admiration they really value A man
can live down business disgrace, he can
even live down scandal, but ne can
get away from a foolish tradition Ike
the matinee girl
The Washington times., 1905-01-22
Has Few Illusions.

'.rTI,e woman theatefgoer OF today mas
fewer Illusions than her mother hac-
She understands life better than did the
woman of two generations back The
old-style hero who always held the CEN
ter of the stage and performed prodigies
of valor for his lady love is not appre-
ciated by Miss 1905 Sir Walter Raleigh
scored q. hit by laying down his coat In
the mud for Queen BeSs TO walk upon.
If he lived today he would halt his lady
love on the near side of the puddle and
aail a hanson.
1.-THE average matinee-goer today
wants to see portrayed on the stage the
life she lives, the men she meets And
she insists on being entertained Pro
vide the entertainment and the women
viii give you serious consideration That
is why we like to play to them. matinee
or night. In America there is no leisure
class among men. 1t is the women who
think seriously along the social lines,
and their social life includes theater-
going Understand. there is an artistic
class of men in America, a few men who
have time to read and follow artistic
lines diiettantes many of them are. out
they are in the very small minority
Yet il is the money-making men who
s,1pport the theaters financially through
the women
And do all these women theatergOers
disassociate the actor from the MANI
Just about 10 per cent The other 81
per cent confuse the man with the role
After seeing some impossible hero, whC
The Washington times., 1905-01-22
Not to Be Caught.

But there was no catching the astute
Mr.. Faversham in this fashion.
tOnIy once have received the sort of
notes to which you refer''-this with
great emphasis on the word sort
'tand that was when 1 played Romeo
TO Miss Adams Juliet. You remember
that for this production Mr.. Frohman
combined the strongest forces Of his
best two companies, and the perform
ance was out OF the ordinary Yes.
then the girls wrote me-er-notes-
enjoyed them immensely. don't you
know. You could see that they were
penned by boarding school girls, impell-
ed partly by the thought that Romeo
is the one great lover of the drama, and
that it was, oh, so devilish TO write 10
the actor who played the role. You
could see them. two or three to-
eether. framing up those notes with
their eyes dancing. But always Ielt
that I had caught the reflected light OF
Miss Adams halo in their girlish minds
and that we ought to break even on the
Then you think that the new type
of matinee girl prefers a role Ike
'Nevill Letchmere 10 the oIu-IdSHloleu
hero like Romeo
The Washington times., 1905-01-22
Nan and the Profession.

But If women have ceased TO wor-
ship st the matinee IDOLS shrine, do
you think men cultivate actors more
assiduousIy than they ever have be-
fore?"
L think that men have discovered that
actors are neither prigs nor animated
clothing dummies, nor mere puppets, to
speak the lines penned by piaywrignts-
They have discovered that the success
FIJI actor must be q healthy man, mag
netic broad-minded. and liberal; a man
who has studied much. including
human nature in all its phases Mag
netism attracts across the foo-Hghts.
Why not in real life2''
More thar this Mr. Faversham would
not admit, but here in New York, the
center OF all things theatrical. it is
recognized that the once despised actor
is Il factor in the social world. The
very. sons and daughters OF old knicker-
Dockers who once regarded members OF
his profession as amusing individuals
across the footlights Cwho were TO be
avoided, however. in the pstiless glare
or private life). are now throwing open
their doors TO the successors OF the old
transformers.
The Washington times., 1905-01-22
Edwin Arden

"Going 20 see Mr.. Favershan? Wen.
tell him that before I saw Lefty 1 al
ways called him 'Favy.' Now it's Mr.
Favershara, with the accent on Mr..
Another good old matinee girl trot-
ting out Of her class, 1 had thought,
but before I had chatted five minutes
with this English actor, who had been
completely adopted by the American
theater-going public, / understood the
change in the girls feelings. For be 1t
known that the character Of Nevin
Letchmere in Lefty in which Mr..
Faversham has scored the greatest tri-
umph of his career, is far removed
from the stage here. at whose altar
old-fashioned matinee girls burned in
cense. He is a. weIl-dressed, weil-man-
rered. we'll groomed. weIl-moneyed cad.
who in the second act OF the play has
one good impulse which he proceeds tC
throttle in the third act. And in the
last act or epilogue he looks from his
sunken ewes across the footlights,
punctuating his epigrams with hack
ing cough, and seems to mu:mur under
his hooking laugh: Fools. fools that
YOU are. YOU women, And this is the
prize for which you strive and sacri-
fee everything-the love of a man like
Nevin Letchmere- We're not worth IT,
now are We?''
The Washington times., 1905-01-22
Matter of Fact Young Miss.

In her place has come a most matter
of fact young woman who talks learned
ly of Sudermann and Ibsen and George
Bernard Shaw. who keeps a scrap book
of programs and criticisms and knows
the professional dramatic horizon, who
can tell you about John Drew's charm
ing daughter, and William Faversham S
silver-walled library, and James K.
Hackett's darling little daughter, show
ing that the actor has been shorn of the
veil of mystery and has been brought
down from his high pedestal Of romance,
to the same everyday level as the man
in "our set" If this young woman sends
yiolets or roses to the theater today, it
IS to some star of her own sex. like Miss
Adams, Miss Barrymore or Miss Mar
lowe.
The natural inference from this state
OF affairs is that the male star is filed
with a poignant regret But just here
the ingratitude of mere man is thrown
up in capital letters. Approach the star
whose vogue has been credited by the
general public to the matinee girl, tell
him that this charming creature is no
more and what does he do?
The Washington times., 1905-01-22

combines IN his role all the virtues Of
parson and swash buckler, they re-
turn home dissatisfied with their Own
men folk, husbands or lovers. Give
them NeviII Letchmere, and they leave
the Lheater with a virtuous realization
that they might have done worse than
say yes TO the men they have mar
RED
But do you think that the woman
of today demands g happy ending for
the pIay-and Lefty does not end hap
PLY, insomuch as Letchmere fails to
win her and live happily with her ever
after?''
NO, but Lefty herself is happy. And
Letcbmere's fate illustrates the law Of
compensation. In your American slang.
he gets just what is coming 70 him,
and the audience, in curious fashion,
is glad of it, however much it may sym
pathize with him. It lresolves itself into
my original statement. The modern girl
does not want an iInpossibly heroic hero,
but an up-to-date man, and she wants to
be entertained"
The Washington times., 1905-01-22
Times Have Changed

Times has changed, I tell you,
ma'am. Why. can remember the day
when girls stood around this here door
ten deep TO wait for Mr. Drew, or Mr..
Faversham, or Mr.. Hackett- And the
notes and the flowers we got. But now
well, I tell you the newspapers are to
blame. Girls know all about the ac-
tors, and they don't care for men they
know all about Here's Mr.. Hackstt
a-pubHshing 1t right out that he has q
little daughter Do you think that's
business for an actor2 I don't. II I
was a manager I'd keep everything
about my male star a dead secret That's
the way to catch the girls. Give 'em
mystery, romance-not facts and family
history. Girls today make more fuss
over women Ii Miss Barrymore, or
Miss Elliott Why, If Maud Adams were
10 play here, she'd have TO go out
through the box Office or the cafe. It
would be more than her hfes worth to
leave by this entrance. I heard how
the last time Miss Mariowe played in
Baltimore. she went out through 2 cafe
after every performance. and then when
the girls get wise, they almost mobbed
her Took her manager and leading
man both to get her through the crush
[ suppose its none OF my business, SO
long as the box Office receipts are D. X
hut / think actors are getting too all
fired touchy on the girl question