Compared with the Woman's Life of 40 Years Ago Compare a female of the age of 40 now with one of the same age 30 years ago and you will be surprised at the tremendous difference, writes Isabel Neaves in the "Glasgow Herald." A woman looked her age then, and in the majority of eases more than that. At 40 she considered herself old—sat home boring holes in linen to begin arduously to put hundreds stitches in the same place and make pattern of the same. Her life was made up of sitting at something or other. She never travelled, at least, never out of her little island. If she went walking, she had the greatest difficulty in' keeping, her long skirts out of the mud. Stiff whalebone compressed her: body, and flannel was the only' laugh at the quaint' fashions of! the '90's, 'Women have expressed themselves volubly on the new styles and most. men have looked upon the return. of skirts and tucked in' bobs with. even less tolerance, but it is a fairly safe bet that woman will adapt these new styles to fit her comfort, The day of emancipation is over—in styles as in everything else—so we will see in a short time the modifying of the new fashions to housewives, and business women, Evening dresses wit fall flowing skirts should prove'a boon to most women, and even the "tappers" beginning to look like girls a Waistlines, not too exaggerated, are a pleasant diversion from the "up-and-down figure that made most. women look as though their face belonged to one era, and their: figure to another. Softly waved and curled hair softens the features which have been all too unmereifully exposed to the light these past, ten years. And while one of my.
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