The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-05-10

Flowered muslin froek that shows re.
turn TO English garden fashions. II
IL made Of blue IND pink muslin.
surplies body ties az back, and neck
line 10 finished with ~upstAndlng
muslin ruehe.
for these frocks. which bore close kin.
ship 90 a softer epoch than the M
IN which we take cur part today.
II Is OF psychological interest, this
introduction into women's apparel OF
a kind OF costumery that suggests
everything We are not az this hour.
There may be 10 reason than that OF
tradition for Us 90 associate Powered
muslins, big tnnctu sashcs with bows
az the back, immense English garden
hats tied under the chin. aud lnce-cov-
cred parusols, with that part % wom'
ans nature that deals In coquetry. the
eternal appeal 20 masculine admira-
ton. helplessncss, and all the acccn-
tunted tricks OF f~emininlty which the
world thought II had wiped out 20 a
certain measure.
Yet we do connect these clothes and
these traits. The world always looks
upon n woman Who Is frocked In n
figured muslin. her eyes shaded with
a huge hat. her arms half bare aud a
rose ut her belt, as n who Is out for
admiration.
The Leopard and His Spots.
There cannot arise n critic so fool
ish In these days as to suggest that
the militant woman + not capable OF
looking like a Vatican shcpherdess n
she takes Il into her mind 90 do so.
Therefore. our surprise Il not that the
women OF the moment should appear
well ia the English garden type OF
clothes, with which one always asso-
clntes strawberries aud cream, low
voices. waving hair parted In the mid
die, and shy. almost gnuche manners,
but that they should elect this ilowery
and futile fashion at this hour.
Yet they are doing II. Both Fnnce
and America are houplng figured fab
rics upon is womanklnd. Lace IL In
stalled again. Immense bow OF taf-
feta ribbon, sashci ~ every kind (;
flowing. elbow sleeves surpllce necks
with wide handkerchicfs Of colored
NMnNllMH MIf NllNM ~ AAAA WITH ~ "'AAhA
who have probably spent the morning
at n class In nursing nt a hospital and
viii spend the evening az a cnnteen.
Isn't this a curious psychological
thing3 Here we have preached for
two years the strengthening tendency
OF women 20 dress more aud more Ike
men In the day, Gne either very sim
ply or In or Amazonian fashion la the
evening.
We have tried 10 stnndardize clothes,
foollshly. but earnestly. throughout all
channels OF dress. w know that one
Of the most important leagues of
young women I'm America Is circulat'
ing Il petition. signed by Us members
{, the effect that they are 10 buy only
three gowns a season. n for each
division OF the day. the price 20 be
$50 apiece. and the uniforms C. be
OF standard pattern. And yet these
very girls, right OF top OF such an
endenvor as this 70 conserve and
economlze, fling themselves into How
cred volles with pink and violet tnf'
feta sashes tied with deep hustle bows
nj the back, and huge hats OF Milan
straw hoaped with howersl
II may be that the leopard cannot
change his spoW. but women can GER
tainly change her type nc will. She
seems "a shrink and grow thin, "a
curve out and grow full, to stand
higher or lower In her boots, and &c
assume at will the militant or th'
coquettish air. In this spring OF 1915
Il looks rs though she were going q
do all OF these things a. various times
Of tho daF.