The Passing Of The Skirt

Nothing earthly is immutable. Fashion clianges and ideas with it - or perhaps ideas change and fashion with them. Every age, to a oertain degree, adapts its mode of life aud mode of dress to its neeessities. We have no snore reasqn to suppose tliat womaa will alwK.-s wear the skirt than had the ancient Grecks for imagining that men ■would always weai the graceful draperies of their day. ïhe skirt is neither eacred nor etemal, and wonian will no more always weax it than she will always wear crinoline or balloon sleeves. ilore and more is reason entering into the causes of the changes of fashion, tmt even the passing of the skirt and the going of the corset will not herald the dawn of the era of wholly rational dress, for woman will yet have prevailing modes in bloomers and the very latest things in boneless waists. This is ■well, for othei-wise many worthy and excellent reformers would find their text and their occupation gone, and their case would be pitiable. In the meaatime, while the skirt and the bloomers are waging that inevitable struggle for esistence that comes soinetimes to all things of earthly origin, you can wear what you please - only be sure that it is what you please - and pray for the survival of the fittest. -