The San Francisco call., 1905-01-15

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Bile 70 my list" says the girl
with q fad. Come you along"
And into q shop Of almost any
asscrapt1cn- they 90, for be It known
that the girl with . fad In a. fun OF
vntrns and fAnoiss a. an egg is Of meat,
nnd she never tires Of mounting her pse
hobby and riding Just little farther
down the eiluring lane Of extravagance.
:. One notion that has caught the eye
Of every capricious lassie Is the new
treasure box. that comes In the form
Of a hand bag. In reality It In small
trunk, but such q convenient one tnat
there does not live the woman VINO
. would call It q nuisance and deliberate
Iy leave It behind her.
In the first place. 1t is made OF some
soft skin, frequently seal. and VIII
stand any amount Of wear and tear ana
vet remain In good condition One side
Of the bag-for 1t Is divided. as suit
case, into two parts-is used for money
= and the other is divided into compart-
ments one for a small gold purse, an
other for cards, still another for wee
. tablet and pencil and yet one wnicn Is
for the crowning glory-the mirror and
powder puff. But don't imagine for
single instant that the powder Is placed
in the purse proper. for 1t most de-
cidedIy is not Instead there is small
er one, resembling in every particular
the old-fashioned card case. One SIDE
is a mirror, the other the powder box,
and 1t Is no rare thing to see a we'll
groomed woman slip this contrivance
from her bag and deliberately powder
the end Of her nose with half the occu-
pants Of a swagger grill looking on
and smiling In an indulgent fashion.
OF course, 1t goes without saying
that this novelty will soon be made up
In a variety Of inexpensive materials,
and that every Tom. Dick and Harry
will be swinging them along the streets,
but It will be no difficult problem to
tell the good from the phony, and only
the well dressed woman will be able to
match her smartest frocks to a nicely.
The woman who INDUCES in any fad
is extravagant-marvelo SO. And,
what Is worse, she grows more extrava-
giant day by day. But be this as 1t may.
# In quite certain that there Is abund-
ant excuse for liking and even going
one step farther and loving the new
fashions and dainty vanities, for they
are not only smart to the last degree,
but are so chic and beautiful withal
that they absolutely coax into pretti-
ness any woman who is so fortunate
as to possess them.
The girl who spends much Of her
time In the open has run on cuffs.
Great, wonderful cuffs. made Of the
softest laces, the rarest embroideries
and trimmed with the most elaborate
of those seven-gored affairs that boasts
that each and every gore Is cut
straight and the blouse may be so cum
ningly fashioned as to look almost Sc
we're, but the cuffs are set upon her
coat In a truly wonderful manner. and
not only prettily dress up her hand.
but at the same time form finish and
trimming to the coat
Sometimes the elegant little frills
are made of straight bands of embroi-
derry. fiaring bit at the top. to make
them At at the wrist, and again they
are stiffened and trimmed with differ
ent Jewels. The laces and soft mulls
may be sent TO the cleaners. for each
gown demands at least two sets of
frills, and in this respect the cuffs GER
tainly are more economical. for they
are made to slip off and on the gar
ments and one pair can be used for any
number of coats.
But. fad or no fad, cuffs there must
be, or else one is worse than q thou
sand years behind the times. which Is
just about as bad as being non est.
. The Paris girl came over with the most
wonderful stiff Chinese embroidery In
all sorts of colors on a white broadcloth
coat, and she even dared to show the
Western girl queer little bits of inlaid
Japanese stuffs that have always been
considered beautiful, but quite too
gorgeous for practical use. But now
It's to the willy Chinese for IL one
makes any sort of pretenses one can
scarcely be too Oriental as regards
Guns and belts, nor too Oriental as re-
CARDS the trimming of ones lapels and
tne decoration of the yoke. and vest.
Inis whimsical creature of fads. bless
ner, always keeps every one amused
and guessing. Her friends never know
Just what To exparf nor xvfon uba fc