One crucial point of difference vas the position of the gitdledine, for there were segments of a girdle knotted at each side, a in the lower Toft sketch on the' opposite page. purpose as being to give, Int] After her French prototype had mut threaded her way' among the tabler here, end of and taken a seat near the America how we who live here' order our] Sit} the smart hats were level, but the difference daily lives so far from the scenes of n height our native places," and he has sharply noticeable when the realized his ideals excel The two girls were standing, And, as book is thoroughly up-to-date and each had stood before the artist who even the resident of a week—than had created her gown, the proper position of the girdle was decided whom there are few more sapient—by the position of the hip-bone. That can banily contradict its information.
Besides the usual friendly gestions as to the most efficient to make oneself at home as a stranger in an Oriental port, and a well-guaged schedule of prices and tips, there are bits not usually found, such as a comparative thermometrical scale. The maps are helpful, the index convenient, the advice ' sound and the feminine reader may well profit by the page fon hotels, boarding hou:
ik shops, cost of ivi vants, cost of clothing and the like. English vocabulary' as ug amusing is a decidedly: useful adjunct there were many more inches below in one case than in the other mat tered not a particle, and, had a third subject appeared, neither so tall as the American nor so short as the Parisionne, the correct placing of the girdle would have been a problem to be solved anew.
Unfortunately, it is not always an artist in drest who makes the decision. If artisans in dross did not usc a rule-of-thumb method in working out proportion, there would not be fo many travesties of one style to be noted in any large assemblage of women, Tow many times do we sce a tall and sinuous figure ludicrously girdled nearer the knees than the waist, a tiny: figure wawrered by a nately cape
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