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A Shawl Reveals Yet Hides A Woman's Form

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Day
11
Month
May
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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The shawl always was and always will be the companion of woman, a sort of a friend indeed. AVhen a woman starts to see her neighbor in a hurry, wliat does she sieze ? A cloak or jacket ? Not if she has a shawl liandy. i Ií she wants to meet her lover just around the corner, or, like the fair Juliet, wants to meet hini in the garden, what does she wear ? A jacket or cape ? No; it is a shawl. And if she doesn't take a shawl she ought to. it will give the youag man a chance to show his chivalry by wrapping it more closeiy around the shouidcrs of his inamorata, eays the Xew York llorning Journal. Weieome the shawl by all means. With the shawl the mantilla will follow. Don't l'ear, my dear neighbor. If the shawl will come, it will be received with a welcome by the ever quick-witted American girl. The shawl is the only remnant ed down to us ïrom the graceful üreek (Jiaperies so mueh admired by men and wonien oí to-day. The Arab wonien wear the shawl, only they cali it a haibe. The Arab negroes wear a smaller one, and they cali it the futtah. Well, il the American woman choose, she could eall it a teplum. Nothing i more appropriate for a woman in the Lenten season than being ciad in sombre costume, with a shawl and mantilla to match. With these at her disposal, a smart woman will be able to show off her taste. A hat and a jacket are mor efit for a carriage drive. But take, for instance, a lady going to church. Let her wear her shawl drawn close to her shoulders, the rest hanging down. Let her put a black mantilla on her head, just dropped on as she drops a napkin on her breakfast table; let it fall naturally just a little over her forehead and pinned in front, says the Boston Globe. That garb will show that her mind is only for things divine. It will give her a charming appearance very ing with men iroin sixty to eighty. Later in the day she can draw up the shawl a little closer so that it will reach only to her waist. She might tie it with a careless, loóse knot in front, or if the shawl is of crepe de chine, the two ends can be drawn behind. In either way the beautiful fringe will set off the dress, be it ever so plain. The mantilla can now be caught up from both sides above the temples and there fastened with pretty jeweled pins or a dagger. Give a large fan to this lady and let Mother Nature do her share. The city of Boston possesses one of the best public gardens in the world. Why not make it a flowery salon of 1892 V What can be more charmingly romantic than our public garden seen by moonlight with its boats floating in the silvery lake ? Think what a picture the Boston woman would make there, dressed in white clothes, with white crape shawls thrown loóse on their shoulders and white mantillas just pinned at the back of their heads ! Oh, the American girl does not know what she will lose by not adoptIng the shawl, if it should come in style. A woman never looks so pretty as when she looks down or up irom under the mantilla, black or white. The young man can not resist her.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier