Judge — January 10, 1914 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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ment cloths at the hips, and tapering to a point at the bottom. But, Mrs. Brown, with a dress as tight as this, what else do you wear? Yes, there is something to your phi- losophy. If a thing is a thing of beauty, it should suffice. Oh, Mrs. Brown! don’t you see I can’t walk! I cannot even take a step in this skirt! You say you'll have to slit itif I want to walk? Why, I have to walk in my clothes! What do I get them for? I’m not a Chinese lady. Slit it as little as possible. There, that certainly is more comfortable. Let me look. Isn't that cunning, the way that flies open over the ankle? Oh, you flatterer! Of course I know I have a pretty foot and ankle, and I suppose it is absurd to hide them. You say this style skirt should be slit up to/the elastics? Then cut it opena teeny little bit higher. One gets reck- less wearing these new styles. Oh, go on, rip up the whole seam! We can put in a ruffle if it’s too daring. Ruffles are old-fashioned? H’mm-m! Well, don’t bother with a ruffle. Leave the space Open. Don’t I look cute? Just imagine pumps the color of the gown and thin silk stock- ings with that open drapery! Is that as high as you can open it? I just love myself in this dress, Mrs. Brown! You have me wonder- fully outlined. The human form is certainly divine, and I, for one, see no reason to be ashamed of it. One feels so free ina skirt cut open like this, After all, what we women want, Mrs. Brown, is freedom to dare to be ourselves, You have enough material left to make another dress, haven't you? Enough combined with something else? Ah, the very latest thing is satin on one side of the body and a light film of chiffon on the other. Good-by, Mrs. Brown! Isurely like my dress. Get a lining ready, and I’ll be in next week and bring the chiffon, From Hymen’s Dictionary Anniversary—A day devoted to the forgetting to buy a pres- ent. Home—The field of the real battle that follows a mere en- gagement. Cooks—A nomadic tribe occasionally frequenting the great culinary range. Furnace—A device for the conversion of coal into drafts. Stork—A distributor allied with the in- fant industries, Nerves—Fine, tightly drawn threads connecting the temper and the divorce court. Allowance—An appropriation of sev- BETWEEN FRIENDS Gladys (playing the piano) —Dear me, I am always wishing to break into song! Muriel—You wouldn't have to break in, dear, if you could fiad the key. HE MADE GOOD BY WORKING OVERTIME enty-five cents every three weeks, with which a woman is expected to buy mati- nee tickets, vegetables, violet water, thread, ice-cream soda, literature, post- age stamps, rouge, ribs and cough medi- cine, Economy—$3.67 for the grocer; $13.80 for the chauffeur. Neighbors—Borrowers. Quarrel—A number of damns obstruct- ing the course of true love. Last Word—The feminine P. S. to a domestic altercation.—stuart B. Stone. e Mathematical Exercises Adding insult to injury. Subtracting the lion’s share. Multiplying words. Dividing friends, Discounting a story. Squaring accounts. Circling the horizontal bar. Getting onto a man’s curves. Rounding a corner. Angling for an invitation. Lining your pockets. Pointing a moral. Flying off at a tangent. Paralleling a railroad. Enlarging a sphere. Truth Truth in full dress is naked. Most peo- ple prefer it in less conventional attire. If It is all right to ride a hobby, if you know when to dismount. comicbooks.com