The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-11
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.


This is slang phrase of the hour
| that is more or less expressive of the
| tendency of the day.
| And a number of ether things.
That "everybodys doing it," howev
! er, is sometimes fatal.
| Oftener than not to fashion.
| That is in that phase of fashion
known as dress"
| A style will be started
At first it's the exclusive property
of the originator who makes it prohi
bitive save to certain classes.
Then it's copied by those little low
er down and it gets out of the car
riages and limousines into the streets
| From the streets it graduates into
the kitchen and finally ends in the
rummage sales and old clothes cara
vansaries.
Nobody wants something that every
body else has.
If everybody is like everybody else
daily intercourse ends in flatness, vac
uity and nausea.
Very few people have any discrimi
nation.
Women, for example, who will adopt
a fashion whether it's becoming or not
| For one thing, let us say, theatel
caps.
! Or however this more or less anon
alous and frequently grotesque head
gear may be denominated.
She sees it in a fashion journal
written about in the Sunday sections
] animadverted upon by writer's fol
! women's pages and pictured forth fas
cinatingly in illustration.
The picture of a round-faced, dim
pied girl, with curl-haloed head topped
| by one of these alluring combinations
of laces, ribbons and flowers, which
sound SO we'll in print and fare forth
SO hypnotically when plated out or
the page, decides madame or mademoi
selle as the tabled case may be.
| She at once sets to work toward du
plication.
She evolves a Creation of satir
and lace with sundry coquettish acces
series dangling Imply here and there
| This she arranges on her head
takes a snatching glance or two in the
|
to the playhouse.
Blissfully unaware of the fact thai
her punched up hair meath it's surface
makes her head look like a map o.
the Himalayas
Bullying protruberantly.
| It's planes diversified by hills ane
dales and beds of mountain streams
! Madame or mademoiselle, again al
the tabled case may be, fancies hersel
irresistible and starts to act the part
1t is a painful or pleasurable specta
Gle as is the point of view of the on
locker.
Only the very young and the exceed
| ing fair should make feint at thi:
sort of head-dress.
! Others only too frequently succeed
in looking like the housemaid or the
hausfrau decked out on sweeping day
But what's the odds if we think We
look nice.
| That's the great thing.
To have the heaven-born knowledge
that you are beautiful, or au fait, OF
any of the other things that spell per
| lection.
There are many feminine being:
who possess this.
Then there are the others who dom
care.
There is no middle ground
The line of cleavage is straight ant
clean.
You are either on one side or tn.
other.
| The ones who think they're beauti
full, however, get the most satisfastio1
out of it.
It's charming to see 'em.
But the ones that don't care hav,
the most fun.
Conscious of their unbeautiful stat,
they are at liberty to look around anc
observe the others.
Fools rush in where angels fear t,
tread is one of those old saws which
is illustrated every day.
That's the reason you see the medic
ere, the crude, the impudent, the su
perfcial running ahead of the game.
While the ones you had supposed
would be on the line are diffidentl,
hanging back and treading the fringes