Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-26

norton of the assemblage, all of whom
had got their new and biithe hapln-
'ments out on the previous nsht redoy>
to pull on an amazed world on Eas'e1
Instead of being allowed to bedike them.
selves out something beyond cavli eann
that must mean somethingo, they weis
compelled, owing to the inuupitdule ar. ~
unolrestioned coldness OF the day, 70
surge up and down the Appian Way with
the collars of their wearisome iur coats
turned up, and even then they hau "
keep a-moving to ward on the Pene.i
fiyeness of the atmosphere 1T WASH q
hit of fun, either, last Easter SUNDAY 10
ride in rolling chairs, though OF couLse
ali of the folks in our SET diu so Iloes
their teeth chattering ana their muses.
encrimSoned and their hpS " q SUI
a bleak bluineSS. -,
Iut this is a far earlier spring than
last. and the indurated gamblers are
nuietly getting down the money thdt
this Easter Sunday is going to De paiHly
enough for the giddy garments
ANYHOW, the folks are here Ihe Trains
hogan to creep in in sections right aIter
ST. Patrick's day, and the buses ana tue
baggage wagons have oeen ela.'e a,,l.,
through the streets day and night ever
since Today there isn't room OF any
kind or size to be had at BoardWaik
hotel and all of the back street noleis
and boarding houses and private houses
that entertain guests are lammed 10 tue
@un'ls The Boardwalk for week OF
more past has been damned as IL IL were
mid-August
Thev're here because they're here, and
they want to see ana DE seen. 1,orst Iou
many of them-the feminine portion
.eain as aforesaid-are wisely refusing
TO take chances on what the weather Oh
Easter Sunday is going TO De NIKE, Ihae
Is to say. they're giving US view OF
their pretty things IN ADVANCE hwy
are - t.
Oh. yes, this is the place to get In
that little bromide observation as TO the
astonishing sisualizing powers OF WoI1i
an folks when 1t comes TO the matter Oh
clothes. the clothes worn by members Oh
their sex.
This present writer was riding In
rolling chair on recent afternoon WIFI
"a member of the fair sex-yes, yes, IL
was perfectly all right and all In the
family, which removes any cnance ior
carping. :.
Well. a Washington lady. known to
both Of US. swung by cUin,ns ~, .iuh The
opposite direction In rolling chaf: Inc
undersigned didn't see the washington
lady amid the big clutter OF chairs, put
his companion in the chair did sec tne
Washington lady. That Is 10 say ENC
saw the washington lady for about one
eighteenth of a second-just In sort
OF a fash, as the chair, emerging from
the weller of chairs, swept py.
'Iow did she iook?' the unasrsisne a
incurred, Just TO make little tdiA' Sce'
Of his companion in the char.
"Oh," she replied, offhandedly. Il only
saw her for a second, you know but sne
had on one of those new BRAIDED talioleo
sufts with Russian net blouse unoer-
meath. and one Of those big black Nea-
politan hats loaded down with maine
bows, and she had one or those ne"
silver wire La valieres with drop dia-
nond and white bucksktn gloves. and
A1ured veil, and that little mole on her
left cheek looked real cute, because thats
where they're wearing the court-plaster
now you know. and
Well, that's all. There were about nine
hundred words more of intimate, mi
croscopic description. but you see, she
had seen the Washington lady TOW, as
related above, only about one-elghteenth
No man could do that, even with 3
camera. could he?
WELL. as long as we have by mad
w yertence blundered into this sub
feet OF feminine adornment and things
let us now take up this matter Of thu
new figured wells.
Why are the new figured wells?
Anybody reading this is at perfect lib
erty to 80 right out and obtain a search
warrant and a writ OF repievin and Z
capias and a subpoena and caveat and ;
habeas corpus as to why are these fig
ured wells, and even then there'u b.
no answer.
We are infatuated to suppose. aren'
we, that women, lovely women, wea
things that are at least intended to Civ
a Flip, as II WAR, to their beauty ant
attractiveness and winsomeness?
Does the figured veil contribute to an
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