The readers of "The Woman's Voice" learned, from the article it published in the last issue, of the uproar raging in women's circles the world over around the new women's fashion. "The Woman's Voice" decided to send its correspondent to sound out the views of a select company of our ladies and men known for refined taste; and the result was this delightful reportage, which we publish below:

Evelyne Bustros

I had the honor of calling on Mrs. Evelyne Bustros in hopes of a talk with her about the new fashion and the stir it has caused — only to find her closeted with the dressmaker! So I sat in the reception room talking with Mr. Georges Kfoury and his wife, Mrs. Najla, our subject being the very matter I had come about. Mrs. Kfoury declared that she has no wish to go along with this fashion; and Mr. Kfoury said: "Fashions, however they may evolve, must always come back to the simple and comfortable. And this new mode, so long as it is uncomfortable for the ladies — with its binding and pressing at the waist — is bound to be temporary; it will soon change into something simpler and more comfortable."

Here Mrs. Evelyne joined us in the discussion, and when I asked her about her new dress she was kind enough to say that it will be a few centimeters longer than last year's dresses, but that its hips will keep their natural shape — without padding! And I observed that Mrs. Bustros receives the fashion, when it renews itself, without disapproval, and does not go to extremes in following it, but takes it naturally, without affectation.

When I asked her opinion of the long, full dresses that Paris is showing, she answered that she wore this fashion just before the First World War, and after her experience of it she considers that, with the length and fullness of its skirts, it is an invitation to dirtiness and the carrying of much filth. And once a woman has tried a certain dress and found it unsuitable, it is not easy for her to choose it a second time.

The talk turned to the revolt now raging in America in protest against this fashion, and the negative methods being used against it. Mrs. Evelyne smiled and said: "I marvel at the American woman — how she spends so much of her energy and time on trifling matters like these. Let a woman wear what she pleases and follow whatever fashions she finds comfortable — and let her spend her time and energy solving problems more important than these!"

Mr. Kfoury kindly favored us with an amusing story. He said:

"A juggler once came in to Harun al-Rashid, and the Caliph asked him what he wanted. He answered that he could throw a needle so that it stood fixed on its head, then throw a second so that its head entered the eye of the first, and so on, until he had formed of these needles a single line... And in fact he performed the feat with the utmost precision. Whereupon Harun al-Rashid ordered that he be given a hundred dinars — and be dealt a hundred lashes. They said: 'But why do we strike him, O Commander of the Faithful?'

"He answered: 'Because he spent great efforts and long