The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-09


witty and informing as TO the latest
in fashions. etiquette and up-to-date
games. The page Is given below in
full. with exception of Mrs. Durhams
clever parody on Browning's The
Pied Piper of Hamiin." in which
Dame Fashion is represented as lead
ing all rats from the infested city,
black rats, golden rats and rats of
every hue, jumping along to the pip
ing of the ever powerful dame.
Fashion Notes.
The following fashion notes were
written by Miss Polly Pert, whose SER
vices for the Hardy Annual were en-
gagged at an enormous expense, Our
readers will doubtless appreciate the
labor of securing her valuable coop
Grafton, and she will be at the service
OF the club every afternoon at in
the library. where she will give ad-
vice on how to dress on $50 a year.
which beats by $40 the estimate given
by our esteemed contemporary. the
Ladies' Home Journal.
Miss Pert's perspicacity Is unexcells
ed. She can size you UP in moment
and tell whether your shoes have been
feathers dyed, and whether You pa
tronize Cohen's bargain counter or
Perkins tailoring establishinA
Ladies, take great pleasure In in
Producing to you Miss Polly Pert,
who. In the person OF Mrs. Durham,
witt talk to you about fashions
AS | was walking down Franklin
street yesterday ] met an old friend
OF mine. very fashionable lady,
dressed in her fire hundred button
gown. l asked her If she were going
to church.
mo. indeed . she replied II never
go to church in this dress. It Is too
embarrassing. Every time a button
turns up on the collection plate, the
rector looks at me. ! have just come
from the Suffrage League. where we
were discussing the adyisability of
nominating Mrs. as senator
from Ginter Park, but unfortunately
my dress was 80 tight that l could
not make a motion"
/ watched my friend turn up Third
street, but / decided to wend my way
toward the Jefferson tea rooms
say / decided, but really the wind de-
cided for nae, for ! never walk against
the wind with my big hat. ! met
Mrs. Algernon de Coursay. who Ia the
epitsme- of s4yle-4ef hat Was a eFess
between the mnnaplane and biplane
effect.
BY the by, ladies, the new hats are
all breezy, andt Paris DEGREES that
there must be a touch of the aero
plane In evidence. Mrs. De Coursay's
waist began just below her neck. Her
hips were planed off with the rest
of her body. Around her neck was q
section of barbed wire covered with
L. I'M, ha nf
dabs of patent leather, and the pores
Of her skin were fiiied with fine
white powder. Altogether she pre-
sented a very elegant appearance.
was very much pleased to have such
a swell stop me and ask II her hat
We're on straight. "Oh, yes" said l,
perfectly straight, you could not get
1t straighter." oh. | am so sorry
sighed Mrs. Algernon de Coursay, IN
have to 60 back and change It. II
Isn't fashionable to wear aeroplane
hats straight
And while l was gazing at the re-
treating form of Mrs, de coursay
bumped into little man with an &C.
static smile. II am 80 happy" he
murmured, II have just contracted
! with Reinaeh to buy my whole stock
of tin ba,htubs and coal scuttles for
their Easter opening
Through one of the windows or
Franklin street | saw happy mother
| and her children. The mothers waist
| line was so low that the children
climbed To her ankles and thought
they were In her lap.
/ turned into The Jefferson Lentcr
/ tea rooms, and do You know that
had to be introduced to some of. my
best friends, for did not know them
| since they took off their puffs.