The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-21
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Having no other pleasure Of his gain
But torment, that 1t cannot ease his
pain. -shakespenre's Poems.
Women's Wear

Women's Wear
It is a most courageous thing Tor
mere man to discourse on the apparel
of his sisters. What is known as the
sillv season." when all the world is
at the seaside, and even Mexico shall
cease to make news of battle, yea the
very suffragettes of London shall be
lying low, somebody starts new
comparison of masculine opinions
upon hats and skirts affected by the
stronger sex. Always the result is
humiliating to the hardy participants.
Somebody else should go back to
the classics and collect, for instance,
all the styles described by Dickens,
who so frequently dresses his women
in what he calls "pelisse." But what
is a pelisse? Certainly it contains no
reference to Chief Bodeker, who
clearly stands aloof from unseemly
interest in frocks Recent talk about
overskirts and underskirts has sup
piled Birmingham with silly season
and an excuse for many diaphanous
laugh. Chief Bodeker is wise.
Men, and even women, too, are all
interested in woman's clothing, the
men especially in her hats.Apart from
the price, who has not made blue the
atmosphere around some ridiculous
feather, haunting his eyelids from the
headgear of the lady in front of him
In the street car? Did the dear crea-
ture herself guess how unseen lam
bent flames, with sulphurous smell,
were licking her impertinent plumes :?
And then in church or at the concert!
"Two scarlet tail feathers standing a
foot above the brim of toque OF
mustard-colored straw, may worry
half congregation" says one writer,
herself woman, who contrasts with
the gay and boisterous coloring of
western bonnets and hats in church
the rule in many parts of Spain that
ladies attending divine service should
wear black gowns and mantillas.
What we seem to have among us
In these days is new emphasis on
sex, in vivid contrast with the Won
derful suffragist movement, which
seeks to obliterate sex considerations
to the utmost In the one case you
observe the woman of instinct, in the
other the weman of experience. Or
shall we say that here are two COM
peting instincts, equally strong,
equally fundamental, the instinct OF
attraction and the instinct of man.
aeement or materialism? In the
case of John Bulls wife the instinct
of materialism is succumbing to the
old and dreadful alternative of the
shrew.
A careful observer notes that
thousands of suffagettes have agreed
to wear similar hats. This makes suf-
fragettes appear as religious order
and gives material authority the su-
preme victory over feminine vanity
and over the instinct of attraction
while the tender side Of materialism
sinks into the background,
On the whole, we should be CRATE.
full to get Professor Teufelsdroeck tc
talk again. He might remind US, out
of vast historic lore, that both these
NEW movements" have been in the
world many time ere this, and left
their mark on human destiny. Yet il
will be some time before man-mere
man-will be made judge of what is
fitting in the adornment of the ladies
though the man be no less thar
Teufelsdroeck Resartus.