Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-07

a great deal more in her pretty 1avenders, maurcs, heliotropes, violets and purples than style and fashion alone. They are only the outward signs of unusual sraces They are the lovely and superficial refec- tion of profound mental states of which she herself, perhaps, is una ware, but which show her to be diff ferent in nature from the girl of 1 the seasons before as she is in ap pearance.
 Any of the newer scientists can tell you why Purple is a positive color and it is color of much spirituality. The purple girl is the product of the twentieth century, and of the year 1909. No earlier date could have evolved her. She is modern. The girls of heretofore have been more negative. And they have been more earthly. They have had little will of their own in the big sense of the word. They have had selfishness, of course, caprice, or whimsicality, but not a powerful mind that could carve out career for itself per hapS in the face of obstacles, or mold it's owns views irrespective of family opinion, or masculine persuasion
 The Englishmen have said their women received all their ideas from their men friends and that you could tell woman's favorite by the views she entertained
 Purple girl of independent mind. All this bespeaks a passive negative mind which is exactly what the purple girl has not. She has ideas of her own asserts them and defends them, and the world may or may not conform it will She is, in fact, open to the charge of strong mindedness. AL 50 she does not consider it re- proach-he reproach to her way of thinking would be weak-minded- ness. She is strong and revels in her strength Suffragette, and busi- ness woman, trades union speakers. the economically independent wife. who follows her profession as her Husband follows his; the schoo!-eirl who plans for a career-all are cas- fly recognizable types of the contem- porary feminine mind
 It was not so long ago that Max Nardeau reaa in each feminine mani festation of purple sign of degen- eracy. But now it is said that the positively feminine mind is the spir- itual mind, Occult investigation would also prove this. ss The great wave of spiritual increase evidenced every where in the things that are unseen and eternal in contrast to the things that are seen and temporal are not only conicident with the coming of the pruple shade, but the craze for color is the natural result of this spiritual awakening
 Many writers ana lecturers have noticed the oncomins of a great wave o1 spiritual increase. Whether it is New Thought and Christian Science, and their postlates of the immater- lailty. of the material and the suDre- macy and sole reality of the spiritual. or wheteher it is a Billy Sunday re- ylVal that turns whole city at a time from thou ,h-s Ii commerce aud worldly affairs to matter of the soul and spirit, evi lcuce1 everywhere lie things that are unseen. Uur Color DOminatnS Feminine World.
 Never has such a riot of violet ac- purple stones and ne CT so many purple stones and never so many chiffon and silken things, that wo, man wraps herself in like a purple mist
 Tn her hats with swirling feathers hosiery, even in her handkerchiefs. the lavender girl is expressing her self. Of tiny borderd mouchojrs which are this year edged with tince of Brilliant color it is the purple ones that are taken first, and that are eae- erly inquired for. There are also ey traVagances to her purple expression. sometimes she is thing of flowers and feathers which lie in purple Whlrls and swirls on the top of her violet hat. From the color of tho Wisteria to the shades of the purple clematis she is a color symphony in soft wool fabrics and satin linings. She is amethyst in her chains and belts and buckles.
 She runs to nlauve in her. 1aa+ber