The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-07
PAR|S|ENNE LEARNS
SECRETS OF DRESS.
Young Girls Taught Arts of
MOdiste i'm Tender
Years.
INITIATE THEIR MOTHER
French Government Again
Proposes to Play Tax
on Bachelors.
INITIATE THEIR MOTHER
BY LA RACONTEUSE.

..PARIS, Nov. Ito dress stylishly
in the way American ladies do, VINO
are just now adding the last gowns to
their armory of toilettes for the WIN
ter season, is easy enough when you
have an unlimited amount of money
to spend, but to dress as tastefully and
smartly as the Parisienne does with
very Limited means, is an art which is
worth fortune.
The chic Parisienne whom you adj
mire on the boulevards or walking in
the b0s or along Avenue des Champs
Elysees cannot afford to have even
single dress made in the neighborhood
of Rue de Ia Paix and still when you
see her you are ready to bet anything
that her dress is the work of a Worth
or d Paqun.
When the average Parisienne is
about to have new dress made, she
makes her studies in the theatre, on
the street, in the big department
stores and at the race tracks. She
makes her own dresses and possesses
the valuable faculty of being able to
remember and copy anything she sees
which strikes her fancy. Her hats to
are of her own make and as rule
she has Il special hat for each dress,
but very seldom any of these hats
costs her more than sixty or seventy
cents. Occasionally a hat will cost
her as much as two dollars, but this
she considers frightfully extravagant.
Learns to Dress.
She has never learned either dress
making or millinery but from the time
when she was playing with her firet
doll she watched he. mother Or of4eF
sister at work and she has tried har
own skill on her dol asd then on her
self Gradually her taste grows more
and more individual and refined, her
fingers grow more nimhle and any
thing she turns out is chic and has a
distinct individuality of its own.
Like her American sister the Paris
ienne loves bargain sales. She does
not hesitate to get up at in the morn
ing to take her place in the long row
awaiting the opening Of a store to buy
remnant or a few metres of silk rib
bon at reduced price.
To be chic today it is necessary to
be slender, to have fine bust, Meth
err too full nor too fiat, and a natural
waist line and to attain these ideal
proportions no sacrifice is too great.
The Parisienne willingly starves to
get the modern silhouette. She re-
nounces candy and continues. but I'M
fortunately her complexion suffers be-
cause she does not get sufficient nour-
ishment. Nowhere are women as pale
as here in Paris today.
The Partisan is proud of his wife
and daughters. Nowhere do you. find
as many happy marriages as in Paris
and nowhere so few husbands who are
nnfaithful to their wives-in spite of
all the stories of authors and play
wrights.
To Tax Bachelors.
Our statesmen are once more talk.
ing of taxing bachelors, not so much
because France needs money as be-
cause they hope the tax will induce
these people to fulfill their duties to-
wards the state and become husbands
and fathers.
Now have good deal of sympathy
with bachelors, who as a rule are far
nicer and more polite to you than
married men, so why should we try
to compel the INTO do what most OF
them do not want to?
Aside from this there are many
bachelors. who are really not single
because they prefer to walk through
life alone. Some are bachelors be
cause of poor health, many more be
cause an unhappy love affair has
blighted their happiness and dried uI
their hearts, some of them have never
been able to pick up sufficient cour
age to pop the question until badness
or grey hair forever ruined theil
chances. while some have never learn
ed he art of charming female hearts
know many people will say thai
when so many men remain bachelors
It is because they are selfish. Wei
and good. but if this is SC, why try to
force them into marriage, which calls