THE MODERN GIRL AND DRESS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 697, 23 December 1909, Page 4

THE MODERN GIRL AND DRESS.

Tho modorn girl, with hei tennis racket ' " and golf club, and lughor education, has ar'rived* and the problem of how to make the s best of'this eelf-possessed young woman, anil, more important, how she is to make the best ' of herself, is engaging the attention oF anny v ' interested in thivaubjeot Mrs Crcighton, m her book, "The Art t>l Living," gives much •sensible advice bhe doe* not ad\ocato v <it \\\ the careless, ugly dress and manner) borne times associated with tho student She cou- ' adors it €\ery girl's duty to try *o look nice, to be a pleasure to other people's eyes .The i>ame principles that dotermino othei artife- > tic excellence—harmony, fitness, suitability, < ehould doteiraine choice of dress Foreigners are constantly amazed at tho way m whioh English women dress for walking about tho streets In no European capital does one see such ovordressod women as in tho streets of London Clothes which are suitable foi ladies who can drive about in carnages are. imitated by thoso who have to ,'climb in and out of omnibuses or to trudge ftlong mnddy pavoments She thinks, too, t ' that English manners are not as a rule -very prottj, American girls, lutli all their'lnde- ' pondenoo, tftke much more trouble to bo araij ablo than the Englioh girls, they really wish to give pleasure as well as to ploase , . It is not at all necessary to be stiff nnd silent, or ' blunt and eolf-assertive,' m orddr to avoid being affeoted i Regarding marriage, Mrs, Creighton thinks that it is tho best condition for women, and ' to a largo extent it must take the placo of a profession.: Yet it is not a profession for whioh a girl can definitely prepaie, < seeing that it is uncertain whethor she will e\er bo v willed upon to fill it The important thing for girls is that they should be doing some'l thing which -will bnnr out the pouers that are in them—powers of all kinds, of the bodj-, the heart, and the mind—that they should be ' learning to know 1 what real work, both intolr lectnal and phyEical, Iβ A. woman isr not a baiter wife fqr being incapablo • But just at thi3 time women with capaoity, tilth definite work in life, aie so pleased with tlieli gifts that they brandish them in the face of the. '. world If-jou can do a thing well, *kcop 1 it to yourself, peoplo will find it out ooon enough. To , mate a ivss about it is only to advertise the faot that jou considei; it rare " ' for a to do anything, i