Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-26
Dress Art

Dress Art
Is q more dependable servant than beauty
ever was. and the woman who has had to
make use of Il all her life can grow ole
without tears.
Il don't care whether I'm pretty or not
give me pretty clothes and I'll get along.
said girl in whose case getting a good hus-
band meant getting along, and like al! the
pretty ugly girls who have the faculty
of getting themselves up, she did II. More
over, she chose the tool which is of-lasting
duration In these days there are no women
old as to be out of the reach of that
transformation which may be worked out
with the things she puts on. The skill and
thought which direct 1t. If frankly consd-
cred a pleasure last in both capacities, and
only need to be applied little more lavish
~ one grows older.
The French woman never hestates to de-
plore openly the way she has gone off In
her looks. but she is not cast down thereat
and calls upon you to admire the way she
makes the most OF herself The kind of
good looks which acknowledges frankly all
the appearances and makeshifts makes for
sincerity and the woman who employs
them never is a pretender She is frankly
joyous in her skill and Is right in consid-
ering II a more valuable possession than
beauty. She will start with a little wisp
of light hair with nothing but its color to
recommend il. and build it up with combs
and puffs and a bang. and add a boa and
a bracelet and a rose and an aigrette. and
you're lost in admiration of her complexity.
Such woman is always ranked as pretty,
IL not beautiful, though she usually is the
kind who says TO everybody, Il am not
pretty, you know, and that is the reason
! have 10 make the most of myself.
The truth is that artificial beauty is
beauty
many admirers as the other kind. AS a
rule the American woman of refinement.
sincerity and purpose loses IN being too
afraid of Over-ad ornment. While the wom-
an who let's herself go and enjoys her fur
bellows whenever there is occasion, wears
q smile In the pure joy Of the experience
which plays its own part in the general
prestige which she gets from her looks.
A Young
Business woman remarked that her sensa-
lions at the end of the days work were
those of having been set down on her feet
suddenly after a continuous performance
Of looping the loop. The average man who
Is a struggle for llfer." as the English
woman called it, gets into his house at
night in just about this condition, and it
is only common sense on the part of the
wife who wants to keep him going to
treat him as she would any performer
who has to be gotten ready to go back
and do the next days stunt
Nobody but the business girl who plays
the role Of wife afterward knows whether
II really is the hardest to whiri in the
whirlpool or to become partly demented by
trying To play rocking horse. and baby
carriage. and sewing machine all at once
and all day, IN fat But the first is
the headliuer which keeps the show going
and IL is noticeable that the business-gtrl-
wife recognizes this, and usually gives her
husband a chance to recuperate before the
next call for time and the same smooth
Il in la
any other performer between rounds. -
She recognizes that the little time that he
spends IN his home ought to be his to do
with exactly as he uleases.
The seeing that he has his paper first,
MS own chair. and a good light and a
chance 10 sit down without being talked
to II he doesn't want to hear anybody talk
are only a necessary part OF her treatment
for tired nerves. To let him forget that
money troubles exist. or at least 10 let him
be immune from them for two or three
hours after he gets in. are only her ordi-
nary precautions for his safety.
The little extra Injuries in the line of
good spirits good food, or good reading
are not provided as part OF tact and
graclousuesS only, but as the means of
stretching forth the cup Of salvation. The
actual need Of these indulgences. which he
does not have time or cannot afford to
take anywhere else, as direct and tangible
evidences OF the work that he has been
putting out at interest, are never so well
appreciated as by the business girl who has
hurried in the same way that he does 10
get into them at night.
Two Codes
OF politeness are not possible for the wom-
an who goes about in a semi-public way
either business any other. She cannot
ltivsh courtesy and graciousness upon
friends and be niggardly with it to strang-
erS-
Women more than men have the English
Instinct OF reserve which reseuts approach
from those whom they do not know, as
cElcious or intrusive, In the many ac-
ilyities which she takes upon herself in
these DAYS. however, the stranger Is a
force 70 be reCkOued with.
Fate plays strange pranks In suddenly
marshalnE Us up 10 be introduced TO the
person with whom we had the little brush
about holding the door open, or to the
woman with whom we were stiff and offish
when she essayed a few remarks IN the
street car.
Tie woman who seems to be ofilcious in
volunteering you Information at the post
Office window turns out 10 be the sister OF
the valued acquaintance you are waiting 10
see and to whom you turn In a dozen cases
OF perpexity The stranger of today be-
comes the friend of tomorrow. and often
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