FASHIONS | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 21, 1881

FASHIONS.

It is the fashion for young ladies to carry a book to and from public meals, and open the book, casting the eye at its pages between each of the courses, and then glance carelessly at the supposed admiring guests, who are expected to be wholly ignorant of the poor girl's shallowness and want of perception to discern, what few persons can avoid reading in her face, that she has never read a book in private from which she has gained food capable of imparting nourishment to her starved mind. The reform is universal, with scarcely an exception in the length of street dresses. A near and dear friend declared to me she was obliged to have a train taken off an elaborate dress composed of heavy silk, satin, and various ornamental quillings and trimmings, as she feared threatened paralysis of her right arm from carrying the train with an elevator or strap, through which she

passed her hand or two or three fingers, as convenience might suggest.

It is still the style for ladies of fashion to wear the cross bar hair-net to keep the frizzles or banged hair over the forehead, which gives the unintentional effect of a scarred skin or a cracked skull. Smouching with a burnt cork about the eyes and over the eyebrows is in the ascendancy with this class, while they indulge in about the usual amount of red paint and whiting. These women are never found clothed with a meek and quiet spirit, enduring hardship for Christ's sake, as a good soldier, serving the Lord.—Christian Union.