The Washington times., 1908-08-16

mother or your husband will plain
about this when they tell you about
the slit. They had no high-hesied
shoes. They wore sandals on their
feet.
Poor Eva Palmer, the sister Of Court
landt Palmer. wore sandals when she
came here IN flowing Greek garments
last summer II she had arrived this
season. with her Grecian draperies,
now that we also wear them. she
would have created no such stir. But
she didn't care. She went TO Bar
Harbor. and az the home of her step
father. Dr. Robert c. Able, was mar
RED to Angelo FicklianOf, a Greek
poet OF noble brow. OF course, Eva
will wear her draperies forever. They
are no response TO a fashion law.
Strange Il is. too, that we tuu cd TO
the Grecian, revived the direet5ire pc
Rod, Just when labor was mutterlng
significantly as IL grappled with cap
ital. France. when IL revived Greclan
gowns. when It was military mad. and
when women were beginning 10 wear
soldlerly suits and cannonball bon
nets, was grapplinB with royalty.
First there were oniy mutteri5sss. You
recall what ! said about the cream
puffs, and neither cake nor confection-
cry could be more silly than seine Of
the sops he nded out today.
Not al. the suits, % return 70 clothes.
ere so severe In line as the one Figure
A. that Betsy chose. TIE coat in fig
ure d is more kindly, and others are
really easier than this IN TT. curvlng
gracefully aud gradually toward me
sides and with two buttons In back
TO accertucte the shOTt-Waisied effect.
Instead Of the slit being al the side,
1t Is often toward Il . trout. and braid
makes two long lipes from the belt 70
the hem Of the skitt, I took CholHe
along the day Betsy Brownface asked
me to so with her TO choose a suit.
Chollie was terribly disappointed He
Lad his eye open for the silt one Of
the Worth suits seen on a model lid
show the untitled SLIT. but she had
SILK pettlcoat that looked like filling
And whenever the slit exists there
Is cloth turned back sufficient 70 an J..
But Chollie was so disappointed.
was Surprised when ne SO quickly con-
scented to go with us, but 1 soon knew
why. had to give him a poke with
my parasol Chollie's surprise OF dis
appointment IS always Of the vouable
sort. lie chummed too much With
Frederick Townsend Martin.
/ chose a suit that had a waistcoat
OF irish lace. It has in reality. though,
no waistcoat at all. for. really. two
scarves OF the lace with soft black
satin below. hang loosely at each side
from the cOllrr. and each is cIasped
toward the ED with a mussel shell.
/ really liked a wistaria suit better,
but the trimming was almost exactly
like the heavy cording on our draw
ing room chairs like the cord also
used TO bind the four sides Of sofa
cushions. This round cord often edges
deep cuffs, Everybody would have
said we bad It left over.
That very day Betsy bought a Direc-
toire bonnet. You aren't in II unless
you have one. OF course, you aren't
but in style. as well as IN the bonnet
1 mean. The Directoire bonnets are
worn with silk frOcks Of the DlrectOtre
model. But some of the girls AZ New
port are so afraid Of the sheath. that.
with their short wasted gowns (far
too full in the skirt and queer bon
nets, they look like drol little figures
from Kate Greenaway pictures. Meth
ing of the mad French Directoire
period Is suggested. Miss Helen Nor
gan, niece of Herbert Parsons the
married Elsie Clews. who is now
working feverishly on another anti
marriage book wore the first bonnet
Of this sort that / ever saw. When
she trlpped of the train at Tuxedo
one day. I saw that her bonnet was
covered with silk (sbirred on a stir
france exactly like the silk Of her
frock- The strings were tied in a big
bow al the left under her chin The
only floral decoration was one large
red rose laid on the stin frame to-
ward the left For little bonnets OF
this sort, the milliners are studying
the pictures ia costume histories. Not
one of these little bonnets. however.
has a fare equal to that OF the bon
net OF the Salvation Army lassie-she
whose bonnet never changes.
But Il you promise not TO say told.
I'll tell YOU something awful [ lust
heard It's about those new soft
purses in ecru and brown. They say
they are made from human skins
They are just about as thick and as
soft as kid glove-tanned and
"cured," OF course. A doctor I know
has wallet made OF IT. It's all due
to the reversion 10 the mad ways OF
Paris When France was graphing
with and had srappled. royalty, and
still felt the insult Of the cream-puffs.
~ A T. Tin