Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-12

test that she sees around her Clothes are
the first thing at hand with which she
reaches out after the transformation Whlch
is to make American out CT the emil
grant, and which with the eternal feminine
is always the first step toward a hisher
development.
AS to the business woman, one who had
made successful career for herself has al
ways calculated the effect of her clothes
not upon those with whom she came IN con-
tact-but upon herself Instead OF puyihg
the severely simple cloth dresses whlch
would be worn about By the society woman
she buys velvets and richly trimmed tali-
ored effects TO do duty for occasions ooth
business and 'unconyenuonally social.
1T is all very we'll" she says, for the
woman who can come in from the day
shopping and get into her beautiful VelVets
and light broadcloths and be driven 10 re,
ception or don a dinner dress, winch VIII
crafty her love of luxury. But the woman
who never has this delight. also needs to
feed the craving which she feels Tor SUI
richness and becoming effects
with me IL is q case or getting inns out
of either the cut or material With pam
material must have richness and complex
ity in trimming, and vice versa win every
thing after the manner OF plahi,eS ,s;,, an
without that sense of feeling happily a.
tractive which gives me commence ior 'he
successful days work.
A Tailsman-
To which she gives credit for being insep-
arab1v mixed up with her own good luck is
admitted by Mrs Ella Rawls Reader TO
have been an almost superstitious belief IN
never missing a chance to help.
There are not many women or men whose
words should have as much weight as those
of this Scotch woman of finance, VINO mas
had everything that both sexes hoid oeal'
Her financial achievements, worth Whlle
even in the world of men, have oeeh Won
drously mixed up with friends, influence anu
magnetism, besides that greatest OF All
things that can happen to woman: pel,ls
swent off her feet by love, ana haVihs tIS
husband she would choose from an 'iie 'A''
The only policy that this hard-headea
business woman admits out OF all heI p; u,
noses and impulses is that OF never iliissiiie
a chance to help' &c once LET a
chance to help go by my good luck Wouio
desert me- she says: s +ba tu,o
Few realize the divergence y! ~ tino
roads which frequently nave I 1iiGi ~ mind
49, in the chance to help. With the l hlna
70 grasp the fact that the helplils VI Of of
helning is the first of two procesettGlm a en-
events there are few SO iachltiS u,isdo,n-
1eretitious instincts-or the divine WiseO I'D
pc ~. 80 70 feel a wish to get on the roau
T,aonIed by the little gods of propitia'io''
One
yho &c idolized by her sons who have grown
levels TO her crown, said that the first les
con that she taught them was that OF the
,.;,,,,+s of other people and that she dld TINS
NV FIRST teaching them the rights OF ami
,,,,,s through their little household pets.
Tive great light which makes some peo-
,,ro ,agord such rights as equal with their
own must be known before 1t is posslple
=. a,+ar into the strength and gentieness
~ the life of the teacher OF the hts' ceL-
fury. -, ,a, Chi, IN be
,rcordjng TO that model, it would be worth
- na1-i1e of a great price to gam LOT Nun
this point of view. 1t IS not pos9ioIe 5a 10
SrhonIs to teach all of that Whtch So uH ,,1
aoHaIv blends qualities of both heart anu
49, 49, Nv ending the baby mind to care
Ia io,,s1fv and gentleneSs to MS niue an
mai friends, the mother mas tle W. which
nrat in her hand. 1t is the prihciplTT, ~ Of
- ming TO be considered in all Ihes
- and she has here the praaGC Nc s
us sel Cor working it out, which VIII APP
neai as nothing else could to plastic H''ie
minds. 10 l. denrived of his
Inc oyaranxious fears that ne may
et harm from them is deprived Vi t on. "a
sst e. hest chances to know and understand
In london
,,,,,.o r-as lately set up a successful httie
shnr bv a Frenchwoman who is one OF
class we'll known in Paris called the "artlste
stoppeur.,' Freely translated, it IS artistic
member" and the woman is one OF those
convent-trained members who can darn
rent in any kind of cloth so that 1t Is ap-
solutely indistinguishable
This is work for which taiiors have fire.
ouent call, but which they never can supply
satisfactorily. and the person who tears an
otherwise perfect garment has no resource
except TO beg a darn as favor from some
older woman who has learned the art.
"She--
Is not lady at heart" was the keenly
intuitive analysis proudly made by woman
who had been brought to the depths of
misfortune by mistakes of temperament.
She had appealed to a woman of position
and wealth who had a long list of char
liable benevolences, and who told her friend
of former days that she deserved no SYM
pathy because she had brought her troubles
upon herself.
1T was not her refusal to help that hurt"
added the woman. 1T was because she
rubbed 1t in
The side, so-called by theatrical people,
and less tolerated by them than any other
sin, is near to the II told you so.' which
is never uttered except in the most play
full way by the lady at heart.
GRACE RILEY CLARKE.