The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1900, Page 10

THE SUNDAY CALL. THE BEARNEST Gl .. HE poster girl is the girl of to-day. Whether she ted the posters or the posters startel her is yet to be difcussed. At any rate, we saw prints of ler bursting forth upon bill- boards and hook covers ill of a tudden one year, and then we looked about and found that she was entering the thr-ter or alighting from that carriage or walk- ing directly beside us. Some of the other girls can't be pos- teresque, but you can. Iis absurd t that little dump of a Mollie curves and floats of posteri 2 She is as graceful a duck and as lithe as a pumpkin. An: 1 it is impossible unle the expression of her face to attitude of her gown. But you, slender flexible and with a face that fol- the quick little shifts of thoug nd arms that do likewise— ; p your fingers and presto, you are transformed into the pos- ter girl of 1900. one is found whe can as- picturesque poses of the real poster girl with equal ease and grace— such a one is Miss Lililan Burkhart, who, besides b E actress, is also gifted with se of the artistic. It is' easier than you guess to make your expression (of face and body toth, mind) tell a whole story in one single pose, if you only know how. But you can’t know how unless you feel how. Per- haps that sounds more discouraging thai it really is. After all, we nearly all of us feel, and what we need is to teach our personalities to sell the ilttle stories Plogis B (1PnltpAcy o> QF THE QRPHIEWMN ©° © that we are all the time living over In x 0 a man went g the art of from coast to coast expression, and he was fadded by some, sneered turced by other: I matter. He w absurd extremist, that is true enough, o absurd that in time he and his fluffy bang and his thumb ring disap,eared from off the known earth. But what he t expression has its value, and for that he is remerabered a little even in this year. “The wistful girl,” fulness aside, shows as perfect a poster outline as you will find. The long curves are there, the forward tilt of the belt, the floating cffect of the skirt about the feet, are all there: There must be a basis for these lines in the fir but traiging goes a long w ce standing with the knees b tilt. Once having it, Then throw the shoulders back, the chest forward. Try walking with arms hanging downward behind, hands clasped. Pretty soon you will find your figure coming to terms. Then about dress. Study the correct out- line and follow it. Details count for less than your dressmaker would have you believe; whether your belt is stitched or braided means so little, but that your skirt should cling at the hips and flare at the heels means so much. Beyond these few rules you must help yourself. Nobody can teach you to look wistful or earnest or—lovable. Not that you could help it if you tried, but—— at and carica- overdid the /, = { THE DEVOTIONAL SR