Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-09-14
IT'S EITHER A
round Dozen
SKIRTS OR No
SKIRTS At ALL
IN brazil
BY MARGARET MASON.
written for the United Press

In Bahia, Brazil,
The fashions are nil,
Each wears what she will
And it's CONNIE il faut" still.
Some beads and a shawl
Are quite jaunty withal;
And a-smile's very nice
For they never have ice.
Bahia, Brazil, Aug. Spy Mail to
New York -There are 365 churches
in Brazil and it looks like some of the
Bahia bellies number their skirts by
the sacred edifces. Paris and New
York have nothing on Bahia when it
comes to that hoops, my dear" eff
feet
The women seem to run to skirts,
whereas the men just run after them.
This bouffant neither effect, topped
off with a nifty little combing jacket
and gayly hued shawl draped care
cred toilette de luxe in Bahia.
The styles are bit extreme in this
Brazilian port, however. When some
petticoats seem numberless, yet again
some seem to number less thannothing
Their motto seems to be eff you must
do it, go the limit" If you must
skirt the proprities do a good job and
call it a dozen.
If you must wear a hat, wear a
HAT. The Balkan bonnet certainly
makes our alleged picture or garden
hat or our erstwhile Merry Widow
look like a pill box.
Even in motoring, these huge straw
or shirred chiffon hats are Wanted
and Haunted.
On the other hand, or rather, head,
a bandanna sufices, or the weeks
wash or the family fire wood. | even
actually saw one tOting a neatly bal
anced coffin.
'Twould seem that everything goes
to the head in Bahia-even the fauna
A chic and very popular effect in an
afternoon hat is an osier basket heap
ed high with green bananas. Where
have we anything on the Balkan
bellies with our fruit trimmed cha
peaux of the summer I'd like to
know?
The fruit woman on the corner, with
her fruit basket piled high with man
goes, pineapples and oranges knows
not the terror of milliner's bill. She
deftly hoists her stock in trade and in
basket to the top of her couture and
moves on to the next stand, or rather,
squat.
The color line is drawn neither in
fashions nor in families in Bahia
Out of population of about 100000
about 10000 are fast black and the
rest a bit shady They seem especial
ly adapted to mourning effects and
even the babies are matched up with
sable garments at the slightest be-
reavement.
For the short trousered and short
skirted, young socks are quite the
rage and neat and original touch
is obtained by wearing the Boston
garter in the open.
The scented and gold tipped cigar
cites of our effete New York and
London Lady Nicotines are spurned
in Bahia. Here again their motto
prevails. If you must smoke, smoke
a real smoke. Hence, short black
cigars and fat black pipes are smoked
by the smoked sirens of Bihia
AS for us U. S. maids as we took
launch back to the good ship Verdi,
most of US were wearing marmoset
fur in the rough-so very rough in
deed that this morning we were wear
ing marmoset bites. These tiny little
chattering monkeys are exterminated
as pests in Bahia or else sold to guile
less tourists for a dollar apiece. The
tourists all bite and so do the mar
mosets.
Thus do we bear away the mark of
Bahia simply by carrying Rahian mon
key business on board.