The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22

scales at 800 pounds, and that is giving
them the benefit Of the doubt. They asked
in the came breath for folly costumes, thoss
with silver bells and pointed caps
Il happened to have quite a number
in stock, as there is always a demand for
them, and they chose one pink and one
blue; the stouter had q little ball that she
practised throwing with very kittenish
gestures into the air.
1.-TWO more, OF much the same build, who
were going to the same masquerade went
as Columbine and as Pierrette, in short
white skirts which just hid the knees, high
heeled slippers, tall peaked caps with low
cut hodices, and wands in their chubby
hands. They looked too cute for any.
thing.
Another man / fitted out had about
him the unmistakable evidences Of being
henpecked. He had the nervous start
that a person gives who has been spoken
to suddenly and he constantly looked over
his shoulders in a hunted manner.
He had q copy Of Byron under his arm
and wanted to be fitted out as Don Juan.
I had no exact copy of Don Juan, in fact
I think Byron omits to tell what his hero
NfOANl ~ thJ ~ - NN0 NbO WV a Nbllll
and he wa thoroughly satisfied.
"One young married woman, very small
and ~piquant, was very frank about herself.
She told me that all her life she had suf-
fered from the fact that her full height
was only five feet nothing. Her latent
desires all tended to the tragic and she
found it impossible to create any impression
among her friends OF a serious nature.
Deciding for n evening at least to full
fill the destiny which she believed herself
deprived Of through some freak Of nature
she was going to assume the garb Of Lady
Macbeth and she spent a good hour picking
out a dagger that she thought suited her
bloodthirsty ideas.
If l could give you a list Of the very
plain women whose faces look like nutmeg
graters and who want to be Mary Queen OF
Scots or Madame de P~ompadour you would
not believe me. There is a certain type
shrill voice that cuts like a knife. When
see a woman Of this type come into
the shop we i'm mediately make a pass to
open the wardrobe door where the costume
OF SSotland's fated queen reposes.
me youhg men who never get farther
and couldn't take the boat to the
fishing banks for fear Of seasickness In.
sist upon sailor rigs, and come in and prao-
Use the sea. roll and deep chest tones.
Il have just costumed a young. stal war+
business man, whose wife has a salon and
'ntertains all the hungry lions that write
md, paint while he makes the money to
'eed them. He's over six feet and doesn't
took as If he ever wasted his time reading
ne undre latest books, but has a whole
ONE golf and yachting air about him that
must be refreshing in Bohemia.
he was going to a costume dinner as q
pet, with long black hair that fell to his
in silken ringlets, velvet knick.
lockers, shoes with silver buckles, rufled
nlrt, and he was going to carry a book in
ls mand and stride about the room.
The peor e who take the peasant COS
umes are usually these who have not much
Individuality. They come in and ask for
he costume OF a Normandie peasant and
o away as a Hollander or Icelander, it
oes not seem to make much difference,
NOW what do you deduce from these
aotsf That the costumer's emporium Is a
GOD place for the Psychologist None
etter, | assure you"