FLUFFY RUFFLES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 126, 20 February 1908, Page 3

FLUFFY RUFFLES.

; unknown artist;to: create,!a feminiho type,.'and! By ."a. ser'ies-.of-' 'her :pictures"to.revolutionise the fashions of his day, : -is' something of a feat (says an American Women's paper;. This is what Wallaco Morgan has. done, .with ."i'luli'y. .Ruffles.", ~ Sho. has. be-'como"-literally a household' word! and, Clyde Fitch is getting.'her ready.- for : tllo.-stage.'. Fluffy ..Ruffles,' i5..0n.0 : of. thb'.- most idiotic yonug .women!.in. fiction... !Clad .'.in trailing frocks . and . nincompoop ' hats . she "lias for weeks been .strayjng -across, - all. over, a certain page; of..the, Sunday, issuo/'df. the,"New York: Herald."',..' According to ,the';pbet",!wl\o recounts , her -charms' in ; .verse','-,Fluffy--'is tho most,!alluring woman,known since tho'.,days' of Helen of Troy. , Sho has sadly.' enough torearii ; herV own living,' ..but ..tho ,'tasjc! is. mado./almost;; impossible. by...the.-fao,t • that' wherever ; she goes , she. draws in her-, train. such a host, of masculino adorers, that-they get in. the-i way.;,of work, and she invariably has to resign or run the risk of heing discharged.-;:,; , Sho lias, tried teaching . young girls to; ride, but-in;, their rides' they, were accompanied by . a cavalcade: oflove-lorn youths; she. .became'.., postmistress ."and,, so many men thronged the prist office that, the country's business could not bo transacted; she taught school and tho committeo attended more regularly, than'the pupils-. After pages and - pages' of this , sort ,of thing had been-printed; the! paper, had a second .grand idea and-:it- offered >prizes' for the. girls who looked-njpst like Fluffy; .' Ruffles, whereupon they • wero inundated with photographs •of every sort of- girl, stout, slender, melancholy, or giddy,; each . and - all fancying herself exactly like the irresistible heroine. And now l'luffy ; Ruffles is to become the heroine of a- play. Wo' shall look for' her next in tho encyclopedia. ■ ' '~