Woman as Decoration

s in action, and when seated, her arms and hands in repose and gesture, the poise of her head. It is woman's line resulting from her habit of mind and the control which her mind has over her body,

if properly directed determines the character of the clothes she wears; determines also whether she be a

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issance. Then crinoline, gaudy materials, and ornamentations witho

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ners that Americans, both men and women, never appear really at home in evening clothes, that they look as if they felt dressed, is true of the average man and woman of our country and results from the l

w York friends, whose luxurious nurseries and marvellous mechanical toys were a delight, always insisted upon returning home,-a block distant,-to change into white before partaking of milk toast and jam, at the nursery table, the American children keeping on their pink and blue linens of the afternoon. The fact of white or pink is unimportant, but our point is made when we have said that the

e way, when young, and so more easily passes through

the spirit. We of to-day make no claim to consistency or logic. Some of us wear too high heels, even with strictly tailored suits, which demand in the name of consistency a sensible sh