Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-09-02
THE NEW-OLD GIRL

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 Sincerely We hope that the news given by the London Sketch may prove to be true, that England is threatened with formidable revival of the Dickens type of girl, for if it is true over there we may be quite sure that it will not be long before the new fashion will come across the water and the fair sex of America will be copying the fashion of the new-old girl.
 The London Sketch says:
 ''It has come about by the simplest means. An audacious milliner. in a thoughtless moment, reintroduced the cottage bonnet familiar in portraits of the young Queen Victoria, as a kind of blinker for motoring, and this head gear tied around the dimpled chin of pretty young woman reminded num- erous elderly gentelmen of sirens of the sos. Like Yvette Guilbert, the first girl who ventured to wear the coal scuttle bonnet had a success de grand mere. The contrast was piquant, ire sistible. For some time past the artists of the younger school have been paint ing erinolines and shawls, parted hair. and cameo brooches---ali the insignia, in short, of the young. person of the Dickens novel and period. And now she is upon us in the flesh and not upon canvas. The cottage bonnet and the floating veil sweep all before, the most devout woman-hater is disarmed, and the susceptible fall at one glance. y
 Let us hope that this joyous news be true! Surely it is not old-fogyish to hark back to those days of dear delight when women were simple, unaffected, and content to be women. Would it not be joy unspeakable if, through the ar bitration of Dame Fashion, there could vanish at one fell swoop the awful rats the false puffs and curls, the tendency toward aping masculinity7 And if what the London Sketch says about the new fashion disarming the woman-hater and making men fall at a glance, is true, then we may be quite sure that feminine America, unsatiated by past conquest and unsatisfied with the queenly eminence it already has en- joyed so long, will not attempt to re- sist the blandishments of the new fash ion.
 And with the coming of the new fash ion let us pray for something of return to the old fashion in manners. Would it not be joy to hail the return of Dora, the girl-wife of David; of Agnes Copperfield of Dame Burden, the trim and beautiful housekeeper of Bleak House; of Kate Nickleby; of Rose May lie and the rest; gentle-voiced, clear of eye, pure of soul-the best types of womanhood and, to how many of us, typical of that first boyhood love that was all holy and reverent and uplifting? It would be change, indeed, and a glorious one, though the London Sketch, which heralds the approaching change sees that
 "It would be a surprising about-face. Missy would have to put away her golf clubs and hockey sticks, and take to tatting and playing the piano. Young persons with a pretty wit and a talent for conversation must henceforth sit mumchance, and their voices must not be heard at the dinner table. Instead of snubbing and chafling the Mere Man, she will bave to prostrate herself be- fore him is being of superior powers. One can forsee some diverting contin- gencies-until the heroine of another and more audacious period becomes, for the nOnce, the fashion,
 There lies the rub! In many ways return of our womankind to the sweet customs of the Dickens period would be sheer delight, but, alasl