NOT HER DAUGHTER'S.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 265, 1 August 1908, Page 11

NOT HER DAUGHTER'S.

"I. must say I received a shock the other day," said tho mother of a seventeen-year-old daughter, who is quoted in an exchange, "when she caino and thanked mo for the new hat she had found in my room, telling mo it 'ivas just what she had wanted. . It was not her gratitudo that mado mo gasp, but the fact that she had mistaken' my neiv hat for one for herself. _ Now, although I resent the old-fashioned idea of a dull stylo of clothes as being alone suitable to tho mother of a nearly grown-up damsel, still I detest tho skittish garments appropriate to girls in their teens, which many w.omon verging towards middle age wear as a matter of course. So I took out the hat for a critical inspection, and, though it' was not ultra-juvenilo, Gladys could have worn it without it being thought a bit too old for her. It was, in fact, one of the pretty picture shapes, with knots of ribbon and clusters of quills. Still, an episode like this sets 0110 thinking whether wo mothers are dressing too much in the same stylo as our girls. I know when white fox furs came into vogue some years ago I thought them quite charming,' and I loused to bo twenty again so that I could wear tliera. Yet, on my- last birthday, four or five years later, when myihusband gavo mo'a set, I forthwith took to wearing them as a matter.of course. Also in the summer I wear shirt dresses .similar to those of my daughter, and. I am m my heart only too thankful that tho fashion prevails; but, nevertheless, I wonder how it will feel ivhon I havo to bo really old."