The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-07

1t Is surprising how many people
wear wells, in fact even young girls
AFFECT the fashion, and it is an I'M
usual thing to see girl. maid or ma
tron without the stringy chiffon veil
or dotted affect strung on.
Some years since only older women
wore wells. and then only when winds
blew. The fancy colored chiffon wells
are supposed to heighten the beauty
effect, but they often exaggerate de-
fects.
They hide freckles, but enlarge
pimples, they add to ones age, not
detract, they affect the eyes. and are
almost anything but attractive.
The old time dotted veil was sup
posedly beautifier, and, think, did
rather improve the appearance.
Wells are exceedingly dear things to
wear constantly, a chiffon one of just
medium quality, costing dollar, while
long automobile wells are about three
dollars and fifty cents.
Physicians declare that the wearing
of wells affects the eyesight, and with
out doubt. the huge dots Immediately
in front of the eye does hinder vision
and cause one to place the eye in
acute angles.
But, the fad is universal and as
said, from old to young is INDUCED in.
am glad to see young people read
ing the papers, it keeps them au fat
with the times and people and opens
their eyes to the affairs of the town.
city and country.
The newspapers are necessities.
ones breakfast is scarcely digestible
uyit hn ri " 20 ON.
tering train every man and woman
has paper.
do think that many exciting things
young folks sake, but, modern jour-
bad, good and Indifferent all get in
print.
Ones dearest friends suffer by ex<-
pose. but our enemies likewise. The
newspapers do heap of good, and
it pleases me so much to see all young
people taking an interest in them. 1t
will eventually raise the tone of the
papers, as it has the magazines.
But, visitors, being deprived of out
door life, have seen the futility OF
spending their money, and returned
ere the time expected had TRANSFERRED.
In the mountains the rains have kept
people indoors for days at time.
At home the weather has affected
furniture, carpets, rugs closet doors,
etc. Even the tubing to an Argand
burner, constantly used was quarter
inch thick with mold.
Shoes in a closet were covered with
white hairy mold and all rugs have
a damp, heavy feeling, and smell dis
gustingly.
Foliage and flowers are fairly rank
wieth verdure, although the flowers
have not bloomed as faithfully as in
former seasons.
An English writer asserts that
American women are not at all the
popular customers in the London
shops. They have very exaggerated
ideas of the cheap prices they ought
to pay in England and make them
selves uncomfortable and the sales
women indignant with the suggestion
that they are being overcharged be-
cause of their nationality. Then they
bring with them their custom of
treating a shop as free exhibition
and an amusement in which they may
indulge If they SO please without
spending anything. The American
Stores like the popular Paris mag
asins,' are, in fact, laid out to meet
this notion. Their goods are lavishly
displayed on counters or hanging up,
so that the prospective customer can
gaze at the novelties and the pretty
things, and even'handle them, without
attracting any attention or meeting
with any obstacle from the shop as
sistants. 1t is certain that in the
States and in Paris alike this policy
is found to answer; the woman who
only intended to walk through and
look is captured by her fancy and
despoiled by her desires and buys
where she meant merely to amuse her
self. In London a civil meaning but
doubtfully polite custom makes a
shopwalker bear down instantly on
the entering guest and demand to
know her wishes. Thus. the Ameri-
can customer and the English shop
assistant fail to appreciate one anoth-
err
Botany absorbs a great deal Of
feminine attention while this present
fad or life in the fields and woods