she will change her mind."

Charles Corm

The car set me down before the hermitage of Mr. Charles Corm — nay, before his palace, built in the old Phoenician style. I was shown first into an Oriental salon, and from the first glance it was plain to me that the master of the house is an artist who takes pains over the furnishing of his home. Before long Mr. Charles came in, apologizing for his lateness. I told him briefly the purpose of my visit, and at first he tried to slip away, excusing himself from giving an opinion on a subject outside his specialty! — so he is exceedingly modest! — And persuading him was no easy matter for me, but in the end I succeeded in bringing him to speak on the subject — and behold, he was expert and learned!... He soared off in his talk into an artistic, philosophic atmosphere, until I nearly forgot myself, or forgot the purpose of my errand.

And since my time did not permit me to stray from the subject, I asked him:

"And do you like the long dresses on the ladies, Ustad?"

He answered me with dash and artistic fervor. He said:

"What is woman's dress but a veil over her natural body? And the simpler that veil is, the better it fulfills this end. Personally I prefer the long dress, because it lends a woman grace, particularly at home and in the evening hours. The sight of a woman in this dress suggests lofty meanings to the poet, and the sight of no short dress can rival it in that. The complete shape of the leg beneath the dress gives the poet room for imagination and hope! And the short dress, which cuts the leg at its middle, divides that beauty, disfigures its completeness, and robs it of much of its magic!

"I do not deny that the short dress is more suitable for girls during their work, and from the economic standpoint; but I am an artist and a poet, and I have confined my point of view

Models of the new fashion, which reached us by airplane from the New York Dress Institute. In them you see, Madam, how far the dress ought to reach below the knees. It has been decided that the hem of the dress must be 27 centimeters from the ground.