Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-10
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| winch were worn by the best of his Glen
| tee.
The place which he occupied in the world
! fashionable and the gorgeousness of some
/ of his tmportations would have inclined
| the observer to doubt if he was capable of
| the subtle distinction until it was remem-
| bered that it was In this way that he
| must have built up his standing of a great
| artist
| The ''ladys hat is often the thing hard
est of attainment by her who is most en-
| titled to wear 1t. Always distinct back in
| the subconseiousness, 1t Is hard to define
| and still harder to pick out Looking at
| the exquisitely goWned woman in question
| the iilusive quality in it was best described
| as combining beauty and fitness, as hitting
a happy medium between under expression
and overexpression, and fulfilling that
| which counts most of all the perfect suit
! ing of individuality.
To describe 1t negatively, It does not
suggest style architecture, actresses.
| pictures or anything technical and It does
not dazzle What it has Is the undefnable
| beauty line which gradually unfolds itself
and at which one looks and looks again.
! When it is worn by your friend 1t brings
| out some new look in her face which You
never saw before. 1t is like an artist
| turning new phase of her to the canvas
/ He would paint her in this one differently
from the way he would do in another and
| the most certain thing is that he will not
| paint her In hat at all if she has gotten
| the other kind.
After ALL that expressed by the 'fady's
| III,
When you get it In new variety, you at
| tract the thoughtful look of others who
| see you IN new character just as with it
| on you recognize some old, forgotten or
| dreamed of phase of yourself
where
! Is the person nowadays who would be Just
! the right one to give such q thing as that?'
The remark was about little piece of still
| life of a species that is almost extinct.
! 1t was a little French picture frame
t hand made, and done in that wonderful
ribbon work which the Frenchwoman
makes the medium of her art The oval
frame was of gold lace and 1t was deep
and curved in, like the forgotten picture
| of some great gilded mirror that reached
to the floor. 1t had crest of roses in
| pompadour Colors which called up a whole
| procession of the fair of the French
| courts, and 1t was more of a revelation of
| French salons, gilded and glorious, than
most people would get out of a whole page
| of history. 1t lay among gifts of utility
| and appropriateness which are offered for
| the sweet purpose of bedecking the IA
| vored ones or of adding the one thing to
| complete cherished possessions.
| 1t was a treasure little love token
| attracting alone by its beauty and having
| the undefinable charm and suggestiveness
| that would make IL the pure gift of senti-
| ment, looked for, strangely enough, mostly
| by the Teutontc In the cosmopolitan Amer
| lean gift hunting.
| Fragile, beautiful and perishable 1t was
| such a thing as no man in his senses
| would venture to think of giving to any
| latter day girl unless she was one in
/ thousand but for the one it would be a
| treasure of beauty and suggestiveness.
! Decoratively speaking, the fitness Of things
would send 1t to the woman of the
| boudoir, where 1t would find little table
or desk OF its own period. But l could
only think of a certain attractive business
! girl cut out in locks and temperament for
| a life of queen playing in home of her
! own, but given over instead to the practical
| business of supporting her mother and
| sisters.
| One day she had brought out an India
| shawl and an ivory fan from the recesses
| of cabinets and wrappings. Il just love
! these things, she said. Il love to know
| I've got them and TO get them out and look
! at them just because they are so beauti-
! ful.' She was one among the few still
! having the old-fashioned keepsake habit
! without the modern way of running them
| into the place where they would make the
| most show, and it was to her, rather than
| the lady of the boudoir, that | thought the
! little picture would be treasure troVe.
In
| Giving to the old, and especially to the
| grandmother and mother, most of whose
! life has been to renounce luxuries, try to
| find those little extravagances which are
| the everyday equipment of those women
| who can indulge. The fact that they have
| gathered about them an atmosphere Of
| plainness is an Indication which must be
/ taken inversely in the matter of gifts
| One of the dearest of these dear ones
| who was the last to be associated with
| frivolities revealed with coaxing a fondy
! cherished ambition for a lorgnette and
| chain, Just plain one in silver" she
| said - but fortunately the go-between
| who had the mission of carrying this little
| message to her son had the exquisite joy
| of knowing that he bought one of beautt-
| fully chased silver, exquisitely set with
| amethysts
| Another dear little woman of sixty con-
| fessed to a longing of years held through
| all the changes OF fashion for a fur-lined
! coat, 'loose and luxuriously cut, of fine
| black broadcloth. just such as are to be
| found now was her description, Except
| her who reticently confesses to ambition
denied, there is nobody more appealing
/ than the little old lady who Is trying to
! make up for what the earlier years have
/ kept from her in the way of a good time
! One such, who had married at eighteen
| and who has brought up eight sons through
| the hard times that only ended lately, goes
| about from one of their houses to another
| pathetically delighted over theater party
| or q luncheon down town, or any OF the
| little gayeties that are planned In her
| honor. Her trunk, when opened Is a.
| revelation in bonnets. silver mounted chat
elaines, smelling bottles, silver lovely white
things for her neck proudly gotten out for
inspection and admiration.
GRACE RILEY CLARKE.