Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-02
PARIS FASHIONS
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special correspondents OF ne StaE.
PARIS, January 10. 1907.
Whenever you hear a man say he under
stands women just pity him. for you may
take it for granted that whatever his gen.
erai discoveries about the sex have been he
will be more hopelessly at sea about some
particular woman than his brother who
owns up to ignorance. The above advice
was originally given to an impulsive debu-
tante who was indignant because a man OF
her acquaintance accused women Of being
hopelessly material and entirely worldly In
their thoughts and acts And he further
rubbed 1t in by saying that even the young
est of girls in her first love affair Is a
cold-blooded materIalist and perfectly in
capable of approaching the idealism Of
the man who mentally prostrates himself
at her feet. So much for mans stand
point. And 1 would rather have them think
these horrid things about us than to have
them know that most girls when they were
very young and unsophiSticated would
willingly have died for something of saw
dust in a white waistcoat they took for
the Apollo Belvedere come to life.
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Whatever mere man may say, we women
know that often the most outwardly mat
ter-of-fact girls have deep down in their
they are hidden. The average man does
not penetrate below the surface. Woman's
natural instinct being to conceal her feel
ings. she often hides her finer emotions
under a flippant exterior. The more af-
fect.onate and romantic she feels the more
reserved and matter of fact she will prob
ably try to appear upon occasions. You
never know where. you are with a woman.
is a remark one frequently hears from men.
IF you have a row with another man you
ra1lr hsruc I'M tnn
chances are you'll make it up but a woman
never listens to reason" No, monsieur a
woman never argues about anything she
feels very deeply. and a woman rarely
forgives man who has Jared upon her.
Indeed. most of her quarrels with the oppo-
site sex may be traced to little rift
within the lute"-a wrong note and the
harmony is broken the spell ended.
There is one woman here in Paris who
has succeeded in pleasing both the women
and the men of the theatergoing set.
refer to Nine. Rejane and the opening of
her new theater. Nine Rejane was very
modest about her plans and had not al
lowed much hue and cry to be INDUCED in
on her account. but the result has delighted
the Partisan public. For this gifted actress
has proved herself an able business
woman. Her theater is a model of comfort
and should lead the way to much-needed
ItlOTiHS III fdTiSlSsn pldyNOuSeS, tnefe
is no city in which theaters are so badly
constructed. Most of them are death traps
in case of fire or panic. the exits are in
adequate and the ventilation is of the poor
est. The seats are small and crowded to-
Gether. and the cloak room accommoda-
tons shock an American woman accus-
toned to pretty little boudoirs in which to
prink: Nine. Rcjane has corrected all
these faults and has added a restaurant as
feature of her theater. But it seems to
me people are talking of everything else
in connection with Rejane's new venture
except the play itself There Is great en-
thusiasm over its comfort and elegance and
the costumes. which of the second en-
pire period. that funny time when crinoline
was the vogue. AS for La Savelli'' as a
play there is little to attract the public
and at the premiere many were so bored
that they left before the end. This is
hardly a good beginning for such an ex-
penSive venture.
1 wonder whether a French minister of