Evening star., 1948-08-20
Bp Marearet Child


Hold laughter fast Tomorrow,
today. too. will be past"
AS time flies, and it still does, even
faster than the superplanes. August.
1898. was really only yesterday"
Women worked; women wore long
skirts; women played golf and ten
mis-. And the eternal search for
beauty was on then. too-only with
out todays streamlined salons to aid
her, milady of 1898 resorted to other
means to obtain it. AS for example,
the young society belle who conf1ded
her formula for lovely arms.
She literally swept her way to
graceful arms! Noticing that all
housemaids invariably had rounded,
shapely arms, whereas hers were
scrawny and unsightly, this daring
miss ordered a load of imported
brooms and forthwith began a rig
orous schedule of sweeping her own
bedroom and sitting room five times
a day. Within a week, she noticed
an improvement and although the
exercise was terrible bother and
involved adoption of a strange cos
tune consisting of chamois gloves,
a silk dust cap and golf skirt, she
bravely continued 1t. At the time
she revealed her secret, she had
worn out five brooms and two car
pets. but her arms were as lovely
as any maids.
Ellen Osborn reported from Sara
toga In August. 1898, that the ia
nous watering place had become
muslin paradise. THE Saratoga
girl" wrote Miss O.. wears muslin
on her bicycle-nothing more could
be said to prove her devotion to
the fabric. She wears muslin in her
hammock She plays croquet in
muslin. She gives cool. green and
white afternoon teas and again she
is in muslin She rocks on the hotel
piazzas in the twilight and still she
is in muslin. Saratoga is the cap
ital of the kingdom of mustn't"
Prom another outstanding resort
came 9 curt social note denying the
hopes of Cinderellas everywhere
who might dream of capturing
prince in the hard, modern days Of
1898 The item ran, The report
that the young Prince Of Turin fell
In love with q poor young lady at
Newport Is in the nature of two
pronged lie. In the first place,
princes never fall in love with young
ladies. In the second place, poor
Young ladies do not flourish in the
fashionable circles of Newport.
A boon to timid swimmers was
put on the market that Augusta
corset of rubber designed for use by
women learning to swim. Made
double with an air space between the
two thicknesses of corset, the gar
ment could be blown up, thus buoy
ing the nervous neophyte. More
shapely than a rubber or cork ring
the corset conformed to the shape
of the wearer, giving neat appear
ance tn the fgger and not showing
at all
Russia and other CorSets were
In the news together. BY order OF
the Russian Minister of Public In
tllt boSolJO"oN' ii' t'NS
sian women In the high schools,
universities, art or music schools
could wear corsets. Having made
an exhaustive study of the under
garment, M. Bogoljewow stated that
as an article of dress, it was def
nitely prejudicial to the health and
physical development of the Rus
sian women.
The well-dressed, up-to- date
summer girl of 1898 would no more
wear her shirt waist a second day
than she would commit the impro-
priety of wearing her linen collar a
second time A special place should
be found on the summer budget for
this. No sensible wardrobe should
contain less than IL summer shirt
waists at no less than IS each.
These, with an allowance of sl5 for
10 weeks laundering at Is cents per
shirtwsist came tn q total Of S7o.
a MT tncorsiderahle sum, OF course,