Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-05-11
set and gore? Lovingly, softly, now round me they sweep Now, l esn sleep, mother. now I can sleep! p,t H. T s. in New York Herald.
set and gore?

It weighs ton, this suit of mine, And yet I thought that it was fine. I wonder now how I could miss
 To buy a suit as thick as this!
 My breath comes hard, sneeze and
 cough,
 And yet 1 dare not take it off!'
 It's aot, it's cold! The weather's
 crul!
 And I perspire like any mule;
 o gentle spring, withhold thy toot Till I can get summer suit!
 -Lippincott's.
 No female has ever found it nec- essarv to consult dictionary for definition of fashion Long before she could read or write, in- stinct or inspiration had furnished her with a definition of this word entirely satisfactory to herself. While learn ed men from the East, or any other point of the compass, might worry their minds about styles of writing, speaking, architecture or any other thing to which they might apply the term, woman always understands this word to mean clothes" and the man. ner of making and wearing them. She feels it to be sacrilege to make use of it in any other sense.
 rlo+l,ocV ryJ0+Lo,,f rr1,ic ', e and distressing subject to all man. kind has been tabooed by literary gen. fuses since the beginning of time. It seems that only two literary lights have been possessed of sufficient courage to attack the subject. The first was MT. Carlyle, who was so doubtful of the propriety of the act, that he clothed the subject with a name the meaning of which was known to but few, and attributed the authorship to, ap unpronouncable Ger man writer, who it. is generally be- lieved never existed; the other is des- perately graphing with the subject now. The first contribution IS thought not to have been published until long after the authors death; the author of this second contribution may not long survive it's publication.
 Fashion has it's beginning in the Garden of Eden,. and the first woman originated it, consequently women are entitled to direct it.
 From the beginning, the cause which prompted mankind to array it. self in clothes has been mooted question, some maintaining vigorously that they were first adopted for com fort and protection, while others, with equal vigor, insisting that ornamen- tation was the chief object. I incline to the latter contention, because, view ing the sex today and taking many of it's characteristics as of necessity in- herited, it is safe to say that the first act of our maternal first parent, af- ter donning her garment of fig leaves, was to steal to the nearest brook and view her reflection in Natures first looking glass, to ascertan if aught had beem added to or taken from her charms. And, doubtless, if we had the full record, we would find confirma- ton of the fact that the first ques- ton she propounded to Adam was, .'Is it on straight, and how do you like it?'' Eve was the first and only woman to have a monopoly on fash ion, and it l4sted only until the next one appeared.
 Some cynic has said that fashion ia created by some women evolving | costume that fits her particular charm and style of beauty; so bewitchingiy | beautiful and charming does it make her appear, that it straightway oe- comes "the mode," and all the balance of the sex, the tall and stout, the fat and slim, blonde and brunette, black and white, rush madly into It uhoer the belief that it will work the same wonderful change in each of them.
 Fashion is tyrant who will brook no rebellion against her decrees, TO be out of the fashion is to be out or the world. Does she proclaim that her followers shall use forty yards or cloth in one dress-skirt and then to prevent it throwing her down at each step, she shall cause it to be dlsteno- ed by a series of barrel hoops, sus- pended from her waist; or that the material shall be so diminished tha, in her gait she appears to move with as little agility as a hobbled mustans' she willingly, cheerfllly, smlllngly' and, apparently with happiness ac- ouiesces in the stern degree. Many of the present day will recall the "Grecian Bend,' which caused the