Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
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And thus has it been for years.
QHS Whether upon the golf tee or the box
of the coach, the clubhouse lawn or
the avenue the steamers deck or the ballroom floor the
American Girl (the capital for choice has flung her
challenge to the world 1t is the challenge of golden
health of arresting beauty and charm, of everything
else that contributes to make her what she is-ovely
And if there ever word that seems to have been
coined for the American Girl 1t is that word lovely
As we see her at home in walks abroad, we real
ze that small part of her poignant attractveness lies
in what note quite promptly as you women
though by no means so critically and dssectlngly,
her pumage Her sisters have marked It, just
they have heard the challenge and there is voice.
not a small distant piping to deny that the Amer
can Girl is the best-gowned woman IN the world We
American men, who really know very little about feni
attire (Benedck of course has to learn which hook
goes into which eye and whether begin at the top
the bottom), inclined to consider the effect
rather than the details; and what we think may be
summed up in conviction that the female OF Our
species is the the bestgroomed creature that
designed to make us happy or miserabe-or both
THUS by way of preamble; and it is not intended
entirely place Danes, but in some measure
to direct attention to what the American man (snal
for native modestys sake) has accomplished in the
of keeping pace with his superb sister, Naturally,
it has been quite impossible for him, however deeply
engrossed in his affairs, not to remark her ascen
dency He has been well aware of whether he has had
to pay the bills not and long time ago it stirred
something within him. 1t began with little more
careful brushing of hat and coat then glance at his
heels to make they properly backened From
expanded gradually to coats and trousers
1t was slow of progress, and in many instances was
helped by such helpful feminine hints as Father don't
you think high collar don't real high one
just of the stand-up kindwould look better with
your evening clothes?" "Bob heard Eleanor Com
yns say that when she met man she always looked at
his cravat and his boots. Very frequently explosions
followed these "hnts but their nvariable resultant
an opening up of the wound and an appreciation
of the fact that may take an interest in his per-
sonal appearance without being fop 1t was borne in
upon him that there decided incongruity between
his outward visible sign and that of his daughter
sister Mother scarcely ain the running in those
early days, because she had not yet learned from
Daughter how to dress.
And so it that the went on step by STEP as
small and lottery infant explores room, clutclng at
the seadying thing in hand and unwilling to release 1T
until the one beyond is firmly grasped, the entire per-
Torrance being watched by adirlng and encourag-
ing gallery of women.
In time the became venturesome- rash,
the feared and no longer in such dire need of
the outthrst hand to check his stumbling He learned
choose for himself to avoid the dangers, goodness
knows there maryland to lessen the Sartorial
distance between himself and the young ahead
of him. 1t good thing, mighty good thing, and
the best part of it the slowness might almost
say the deliberation, with which it achieved. The
himself unaware of it achievement: it
seemed merely natural sort of evolution. But, what
is, evolution proper pride, commemorate van
ty,-and there those who maintain that vanity
makes heroeS,-thlS fact remains:
The American man, considering him in all the classes
that constitute American society, is today the best
dressed, best-kept man IN the world.
this statement there is least attempt to charac-
terze this country overrun with Beau Brummells.
But it meant to say that IN recent years the American
at large has become pointedlv careful of his appear
He has to require that his clothes shall not
merely be brushed and clean, but that they shall fit
him. and that they shall be fresh looking and free of
unSlghty wrinkles when he donS them. In the other
details of his accoutrement he has shown equal care
Take the of business, for instance, and he rep
resents the great maJonty-there was time when ANY