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The Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page Pp9 (Hk v. u ',x v. Fore , nd Afl Chapcau. Black Literal Straw with. Quill .Trimming. Created by the 'Maiion Amelie. By Lady Duff-Gordon 1ATS, hats, "everywhere, but bo fow or them I feel llko wearing! A morning walk on 'the, boulevards, In tbli lovely Spring weather, brings out nl moat as many hats as people Tbcro aro the shlnyjLlterct bats In black, bluo, green and yellow,' there aro tuscans. leghornsVand mllans. Thero are plain straws and twisted straws and flowers! Yo gods' It Is Impossible to supply tho demand. So Impressed huvo I been with these last , minute hats that I so loetod four, at random,' to send to you. Two otf them are by Lewis, and tho other two by Amello. You see that tho trimming either stands up fa 'foot or more, or else hangs down-from ),tho under side of the brim. It is an up and down season, you "see. By way of contrast 1 am sending youa: Rodfcrn costumo which up poals.very greatly to mo. Tho linos aro gracious and matronly, and tho draping Is particularly effective. And now I am going to say "I told Last Minute fahiorir on the BoulevarcLr Defers bed by Lady Duff-Gordon. f ADY DUFF-CORDON the lamou "Lu- , cile" ot London, and (oremoit creator of fashion in the world, writes each week the fashion article for thu newipapex, presenting all that it newest and belt in aty lea for well-dressed women Lady Duff-Cordon s Parts establishment bring her into eiosr touch with that center of fashion Red fens Evening Gown of Black Satin Draped Statuesque Lines. you so'" again I simply can't help It. and. roally. under these particular circumstances. It Is not nearly so odious a remark, as It can be and generally Is! For the happening I foretold Is iuch n pleasant ono that you should all be glntl It tins thus "enrae truo." and that the coats you nro going to wear In the Spring will flaro outward In the mnnner already rando familiar by the "lamp-shade" tunic, and In this wuy, also, proved to bo wtont becoming. Only the new style of silhouette will be still more striking, because the coats will be much longer than the tunics, and their fabrics, too. so much more substantial. Moreox-cr, rhey will frequently and. Indeed, generally bo deeply bordered and weighted with fur. and. altogether, win give their wearers a most Im posing appearance and wldtb to the knees, that is' But after that they " will taper swny to a mere nothing, or 6hould do so. If nature has been kind Instead of pencmus In the matter of ankle measurements! Certainly there will not bo n superfluous half Inch of fabric, so far as tho 6klrts aro coucerned, these being cut In a way which pays the Battery of closest Imitation to tho "peg-top' trousers, whose perpetuation, In our memory, has hitherto been confined to old time prints and publications. Some of these coats will be a permanent part of tho one costume, while others will be in the nature f a wrap, which can be worn with various gowns. Such a coat I made qulto recently tor stage wear with a ckarmeuse gown In one of those "queer" shades of blue which I love to use, and Its material was black satin, with very broad borderings of snow-white fox fur. Which reminds me to warn you. however, that If you have any Idea of choosing this same black satin for ono of your new wraps you must needs bo absolutely sure of the skill of tho maker, for it Is a material which can be so easily, and fatally. Why Some Women of Refinement Are Acting Like Barbarians An Interesting Psychological Analysis by G. K. Chesterton of the Mur derous Mme. Caillaux and the Wanton Acts of the Suffragists. By G. K. Chesterton, the Famous English Essayist. IF.ono.wrote.a.thousand books about tho matter.'one could 'notmaWa plainer picture of I tho difference botween the English temperament and tho French tem perament In practical' politics than by com paring tho two outrages that have, recently been dono by prominent and educated women. An English lady comes slncbroly to the conclusion that It would bo good for her body and soul to have a vote, which means the thousandth fraction of a lawyor on the mako, who will always do what his party leaders toll htm. and somotlmos what his party opponents tell him but never, under any earthly circumstances, what she . tells fairri. Very well. What does she do thon She thoughtfully . betakes herself to a picture gallery, and 'walks round it until she has elected ttio picture which has tho least possible connection with the buslnoss in hand a very dubious Velasquez 'which. If It is in honor of anything, Is presumably in honor of tho beauty of her sex. She carefully slices It about with a chopper without do ing it irreparable Injury. To my simple masculine mind the connec tion of ideas is not clear. Not long alter this occasion, the wife ot a French politician comes to the conclusion that her husband is being slandered by a Journalist. But, strange to relate, she does not go to the Louvre and Ore bullets at the Venus of Mllo, Twhich would seem the more natural course. On the contrary, she goes .to the Journalist's office and fires bullots at the Journalist. This is certainly a much "more wicked thing to do; but I cannot conceal from my self that it Is also much more Intelligible. It is not very sensible, of course, because it has really sounded a trumpet for the tri umph of her political enemies Just as the murder of SL Thomas of Canterbury was instantly followed by the victory of the 'Church and the humiliation of the King. Bui I can trace that connection of Ideas in this case which entirely escape me In the other. And though both these unfortunate ladles were probably, hysterical and -desperate, and llliiHLflfllEflHRKT stm BliisHHRvfiSKBiflBsssssssK my own instinct would be to doal lenlontly with them, yet in the French case one can ' see. i through all its distortion of derangement and criminality, a curious kind of crooked shadow of the political genius of France. But the point I wish to raise. here is quite apart tromttbe horror and dls- tenon by tress of this particular crime. There is ono peculiarity which, both offenders have in common, and which seems to me to go very deop into the strange squabble of the sexes that has arisen In our time. Now the real poison and perl) In 'that squabble Is not in aqy mero anarchy arising out of It. - It is not that people break win dows, still leas that they attempt to vivisect tho Rokeby "Venus." I think It rathor healthy for tho respectable classes to have their windows broken at proper historical Intervals, and as for the Rokeby "Venus." had 1 not attached some Importance to self control. 1 might bavo put my boot through It long ago No; the vital evil is this, that the sexes, like any other two parties to a business, may got themselves Into eucb an attltudo to each other that neither can respect the other Everything and everybody has Its weak side and Its strong side; and this Suf fragette business means the woman always turning her weak lde to tho man, and the man, In cousequenco, turning bis weak side to the woman. Very broadly, the woak fide of tho woman is unreasonableness, and the weak side of the man is brutality, and not a few signs of it are beginning to show thomselves. If I make myself clear, the one sex cannot get round to the right side of the other. It is maddening to watch. It is like watching somebody trying to Join a hook and eye. each ot them held tho wrong way round. It is like watching a drunkard try ing to find the keyhole with the wrong end of the key. Now there are certain perfectly definite oddities or. limitations which are more com mon In women. Just as tho.ro are others which aro more common In men. And If a man nover appeared to a woman except when he was drunk, and a wom an nevor appeared to a man excopt when sho was In hysterics, what some, call the comradoship of tho sexes would scarcely be advanced. And tho two political women of whom 1 have spokon both ex hibit a trait which would probably bo exhibited by the best and wisest woman In tho world if she stood In this unlucky attitude toward accidental circum stances. Frankly, the trait is this that tho things the Suf fracettos do are not half A. Ctever Casieattsre of G. JC Che. n sillv na thn thtntrs the " say. And tho reason for tho silliness In the things thoy say Is not in the least that they aro sillier than other people, or that women are sillier than men ('which they certainly are not), tho reason 1b that they do not care what they say. Thoy are full of the practical feraalo glow of having done something; and the explana tion they givo is simply anything that comes into their heads. Tho lady who gave the "Venus" a good hard knock said afterward that she had soloctod it as tho most beautiful woman In mythology, and aa a parallel to Mrs. Pank hurst, who was tho most beautiful charactor In modern history. The logical deduction of which, as It present sltsolf to mo, is that sho ehould- take a chopper and give Mrs. Pankhurst a good hard knock, slnco that Is her symbolic way of saluting female excel lence But I do not believe for a moment that the lady bad any such theoretic reason bo foro she performed the practical action. 1 think It waa an afterthought And by this 1 do not mean in tho least that sho Is not serious about tho Justice of the vote. I moan that sho is not what I should call eerlouo about the Justice of the Word the spoken utterance, declaration or definition. So long as she is right, she doesn't think It much matters what she says. And this Is not a proof of silliness; It is simply a bias of sex. Now it is the curious fact that the un happy woman in Paris, who went much more directly about her business In the practical sense, exhibited very much the same weird frivolity about it afterward. She appears to have said that sho didn't shoot at M Cal mette to kill him, but to "give him a lesson." dowdy, though Its possl btlitles in the other di rection of special smart ness aro equally great. Only It must be cut and trimmed in Just ex actly tho right way. Indeed, it Is Just be causo of Its difficulties and its possibilities that I make frequent use of It and chose it for another1 coat which Is being worn by a very strikingly handsomo and graceful actress In London's latest revue. It makes a background in this caso for a daring devlco in ivory white lace, gold broidery, and all its fulness is deeply bordered with sable, this same fur of furs (ami roally It Is as supremely beautiful as It Is costly!) finishing the wide sleeves and forming the collar, which is laid stralghtly across the back. And then the lining comes as a great and glorious surprise, for its satin is of that vivid and weird shade of turquoise blue which is bo closely akin to green that Its Inspiration must needs have been an emerald seen through the blue ot a Mediter ranean sen which mirrored the rival blue of the sky. This same color was repeated In the velvet brim lining of tho black nat. a orim wnich turned sharply at one side, while from behind sholter thero sprang up ward and outward a superb white aigrette, centred with a veritable bush of black fronds. And the dress Itself was of yellow satin as to the skirt, while flesh-colored chiffon and soft brown net, with a touch of fur. fashioned the long-sleeved corsage, and at tho waist there were swathlngs of satin In emer ald green, turquoise blue, black, white and orange. Now, can you imagine something ot the result ing effect and sensation? She may bo telling tho exact truth for all l know, but itjs a logical position which cannot unravel. It seems to mo strange to suppose that a gentleman who iias a lot to say against you would bo more Inclined to lot you off after you had tried to murder him and failed. It also soomB to me to imply considerable confidence in your own marks manship to' suppose that you could exactly regulato tho extent of tho lesson conducted by emptying five barrels of a revolver Into a man's back. Was It perhaps a lesson In marksmanship? And tho moral of all this is not in the least that women are Incapable of common sense, but simply that wo have not enough common-son3o to give thom a real chance of expressing it Women ought to be doc tors; but women were doctors in the Middle ages. Women ought to alt on Juries Ip cer tain cases; but in thoso cases thoy sat on Juries in tho Middle Ages. Women ought to bo queens, but they were queens in the Middle Ages. The reason why some hesitation has been felt about their adopting some other pro fessions and practices will generally. I think, be found to work back to a dark subcon scious doubt In the malo mind about whether those practices aro quite unlmpeachably honorable. Tho eoldler is right to kill; but killing is rathor boaatly. The barrister is right to cross-examine; but cross-examining Is much more beastly. What I suggest Is the strange fancy that our forefathers were not all fools, and that it is worth while to consider seriously whether their traditions did not generally follow the trackB of buman Instinct and experience. And tho primary Instinct Is to avoid the occasion when people appear at their worst. If a Frenchman and an Englishman want ed to settle something, it might be wise (or tho Englishman to make an appointment on Shakespeare's Cliff, overhanging the sea al Dover, or It might even be wise for tbe Frenchman to make an appointment tn the old town of Calais, for which the burghers dared so much and which Mary Tudor bad written on her heart- But I really do not advise the Frenchman and the Englishman to settle their differences on tbe boat be tween Dover and Calais on a rather stormy day Neither could be certain of the preser vation of that dignity which is a consider able part of diplomacy It Is not really a spiritual degradation to be seasick, nor is It a spiritual degradation to bo hysterica). But there is a very real blunder In people putting themselves Into these repulsive and Impossible attitudes when they are trying to persuade somebody else that they are right. And the modem quarrel between tbe sexes is really a misunderstanding of this sort. 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