People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — Becomingness. [ARTICLE]

Becomingness.

Why do not women who are apparently intelligent give, in ordering costumes, a little less study to the cut and more to color and general beoomingness? “She might have been so pretty, ” said one woman of another the other day, “and she was so ugly! She had bright black eyes and a good nose and nice white teeth—those were all her good points. She was dreadfully sallow, and her hair was a yellowish gray, and she was dressed in the very color whioh aooented every bit of ugliness—a oold gray. If she had known it she might have made herself look thoroughly attractive. She should have worn a soft, graceful black gown with a ruff effect about the throat to hide the lines of age in her throat. Then, instead of the gray tnrban, she should have worn a dainty, close, little blaak bonnet with a chou of soarlet velvet on it In this costumo, with her flashing block eyes, her pretty teeth, her sallowness turned to olive by the blaok and red, she would have looked a picturesque Spaniard and positively a handsome woman!”—New York Tribune.