Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-01

human form divine you know. There's nothing
beautiful than that.
Certainly said Davidson at must show off the
outlines of the form, and at the time admit of
feet freedom of moton,-something loose and flowing
and graceful. | always liked 1oaty wavy looking
things he concluded vaguely.
u see" said Mrs Davidson sweetly, what you
is sort OF combination of the princess gown and the
Mother Hubbard
Davidson looked perpexed
The princess gown explained his wife, "fts like
glove; the Mother Hubbard is very loose flowing,
graceful, foatv and wavy.7
lust so" said Davidson eagerly "a combination of
the princess gown and the Mother Hubbard. That's
exactly what like; and, besides being close fitting and
flowing, it should be perfectly simple. Men like SIM
picity, you know
His fellow men nodded in agreement.
Beauty when unadorncd, adorned the most
quoted Roberts. who it said that?"
Some sinpleton whose might Just well be
forgotten retorted Mrs Roberts. "The who likes
a woman unadorned would probably like his beefsteak
He's savage, and ought to 60 to the Sandwich
Islands, where women string of beads and a
heavenly smile"
The poets are all on our side, Helen" said Roberts
triunphanty. Don't you remember Ben Jonsons
lineso
GIVE look, give face
That makes simplicity grace;
Robes loosely flowing hair as free
Such neglect taketh me
Than all the adulteries of
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Roberts had been the class poet in his college days.
and twenty years in the grocery business had not de-
stroyed his devotion to the muse.
Il guess cotton Grape kimono would about strike
Ben Tonson's heart, remarked Mrs. Arnold
"It's my opinion Ben Jonson wrote those lines right
after he'd paid dressnakers bill miners bill for
Mrs Ben-if there was Mrs Ben, said Mrs. Brown.
4N1en develop taste for simplicity till they
ed md hav to fheIr
Its my opinion, said Mrs Graham, "that he
them while he drinking to Her with something be-
sides his eyes They always did sound to like the
utterance of a man on plain drunk There's something
morally wrong about who prefers such a woman
to decently dressed
THE police would in if dressed according to
the poets, said Mrs. Smith.
@And the novests than the poets, assented
Mrs Arnold. when a novelist gets putting clothes
on his heroine always think of little boy trying
dress his sisters doll"
@Does it occur you, said Graham, that
this discussion brings US to the old problem
used to tackle when studied mental philos-
ophy Does beauty exist in the object itself or
in the mind of the behoder?'
"It's in the mind of the behoder, said Rob
erts positively land it takes womans mind
to see any beauty in these modern fashions.
NO, its not, disputed his wife. Its in the
object itself and anything looks beautiful if 1t is g
in STYLE
~The idea of being dependent style.7
torted Roberts. a really beautiful thing is
always beautiful As Keats says, A thing of =
beauty is JOY forever If thing is really
beautiful today, it will be beautiful any number
OF years hence. A jewel, for instance, is always
beautiful: fashion has nothing to do with its
beauty
Yes has" declared Mrs. Roberts. didn't
you have Your mothers diamond reset for my
engagement ring? We women are like jewels