The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-04

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backs. The only one ron know Any-
custom oalciaiE ana the most unheal-
thy taste you got Of your own y. 8 4.
when you have to encounter them
Almost every thing Is durable IN
France just ~ II u with us but POUR
explanations are accepted because
English dictionaires are scarce and II
IL too much trouble TO look to un-
The Season 81 beauty.
unintelligabie French about
It has always been Q conceded fact
that Paris beauty show time ID In
the spring. Everything 10 In blossom
from the horse chestnuts on the
Champs Ulysses and the Bots. to the
windows OF the modfste Chats milli-
ners) and the open backs victoria tax
10 or the electric or gasoline ones
The say the two latter blossom are the
women In their new spring bonnets and
frocks.
The French are never too busy, to-
doleful over postal strike or too up
set over an earthquake to let their
figures or faces suffer.
Right now notwithstanding social
problems and earthquakes. the most
absorbing part OF the French journals
Is the discussion being carried on as
to at what age a woman IL most beau
siful. The French are wise In their
beauty conclusions as In all else for
the consensus of opinion excludes the
very young and sweet sixteen" finds no
favor in the eyes Of the average Par
isian, whose appreciation of female
loveliness 10 not q matter of mere within.
but Of elaborate study and apprecia-
ton.
Thus Marcel Provost says that the
age Of absolute beauty in woman
passes very rapidly, but in Paris many
women are most attractive between
80 and 40. Feminine beauty, accord
ing to Abel Bonnard, the poet, 10 only
perfect between the ages Of Is and 80,
while "a woman Is always beautiful,
IL she has the beauty of her age" is
the opinion of Madamoiselle Breslau.
who adds. however. that "the major
ity of our contemporaries appear to
forget It," Her personal opinion Is
that q woman 10 at her best between
80 and 90.
Madame Marin. the novelist. con-
sfders that the beautiful woman tri-
umphant period Is between IS and 40,
and Madame Dienlafoy declares for
the years between 33 and As. Madame
Macelle Tinayre. the novelist. says that
1t lie impossible to deal with the ques-
ton of woman's beauty in figures. Two
women born on the same day are not
SO on the same day. There is no age
for beauty" she says. "Ail roses do
not bloom at the same time"
The Parisians just the same are per-
petual boomers. If you see them in
the fall and winter. you think that
nothing so becomes them as those sea-
sons, but when you see them In the
spring, you are sure they never could
look so well at any other time of the
year. The women of Paris are the only
ones that can make the smart Ameri-
can look dowdy. Go to the Pres Cata-
lin and see II you don't think so too.
Beauty ON Parade.
OF course, the place to see them in
full bloom is at the races and or
Sunday. other days are interesting,
but on Sunday every one, from the rich
est to the poorest, have an airing and
even the poorest never look aught but
"chic"-"chic" is the only word to ex-
press the French, and that's the rea-
SON II belongs-all four letters of it
to them. 1t is the motto and belongs
to them and Is the hallmark stamped
on every French maid and matron.
II you go to the races or drive in
the Bots or the Champs Elysees this
year, you are first going to be struck
with the hats. The bee hives have
vanished. possibly to become adjuncts
to the farm. and in their place have
sprung up in a night, no. not the mush-
rooms but the loaf-like high crowns
and the enormous brims. The latter
invariably turn up at the side so that
you can catch a glimpse Of the newest
in hair arrangement For want of
better name. you might call this latest
in hair mode "coiffeur a la slap DASH"
for that is the only thing you can think
of in your vocabulary French, English
and American. that could make those
who have not seen II really understand.
The workings of this slap dash Golf
feur" is not really intricate, and almost
anv one with French blood In their
veins can show you how. The hair is