Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 March 1890 — Page 6
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DAILY JOURNAL.
SATUHDAY, MAllCH 22, 1890.
TO-MORROW IS A HOLIDAY.
Thodauphters of four generations «it In ilit* dark shadows of fin htimblo room. Tho youngest played, thiijrrny ^randmothorsptm,
Ilcr daughter tuus«yi, while hi the corner's gloom The ^roat-grandmother boat low In her chair— Ajid strange hot flushes filled the qulot air.
The child: 'To-morrow Is holiday AJid 1 will play along the grassy flehls And run the hills aud pluck the fairest buds
That all the tlower covered meadow yields I'll Ring, and walk upon thc brooklet's shorea.** O. iu the distance how the thunder roars!
Mother: "To-morow is a holiday1 Aud all of us will merry bo and glad. I'll deck myself iu what I have of best.
For life should uot be always bleak and sad. The sun shiues bright for e'en the darkest souls." And coming nearer fierce the thunder rolls.
Grandmother: "Ah, 'twill be a holiday. There's tio such thing as holiday for mo. My fnte'b to spin and cook the daily tneai,
For life is work and solitude and drear. It's well for those who may do as they please." Seo the quick lightning flashing through the trees.
The great-gramlmother slowly turns aad speaks: "A holiday to-morrow and the tomb 111 wide agajte for me. What's earth but care
And woe where nothing breaks the joyless gloom I And why should I yet litiger in the world?" Great God: The lightning's bolts upon them hurled.
They do not see nor hear thi? awful flame That lights the chamber with a uooutide glow, The daughters of futi- irenerationa lie
All dead together, &mitt«u by one blow. Four lives thus ended by the lightning's ray— This their to-morrow, this their holiday. —Philadelphia Times.
Difference In Sponges.
There ire very nuiny people who cannot loll the difference between "Turkey cups" and common reef s[)onges, and they are astounded at. the ditlference in price. They are asked §8 for what they think they can £et just as fjood for twenty-live cents. There are sponges from Florida called sheep's wool, which, in the opinion of many buyers, are as good, although much cheaper, for all practical purposes as the silk ones. They are used mainly for washing carriages, although they make a good bathing qtonye. Reef sponges eoinii from Cuba and Nassau. Turkey cups from Around the islands of the Archipelago, Sheep's wool and reef sponges come iu ten, twenty and forty pound bales, and the •cuest of the former, known as Rock _Islmid goods, Bell wholesale: ut from $2.80 to $U.13 per pound. The Turkey cups are sorted at London and Paris into three qualities and sent to us in bags. They are sold by the piece.—Boston Globe-
Just a Difference of Opinion.
The artists are always finding fault, in every clime and country, with the work of the local hanging committee." Never was an artist who did not claim, if any of his work was exhibited in an exhibition, that the unfortunate "hanging committee" had dwarfed his effort by hanging it in the worst possible place. At au exhibition in this city a certain artist had a work accepted and was requested by the hanging committee to visit the gallery and pick out his own place, lie did so. When the exhibition was opened a fellow artist who visited It found fault with the place given one of liis own paintings. "But I will not speak of my own work," he said to the party to whom he was complaining. "Now there is 's picture over there. An idiot would have put it in a better place." When he found out later that had made his own selection of position he had nothing further to say.—Chicago Herald.
AmunemelitN In Grant llrltuln.
In Ixndou the places of amusement number about 550 or 600, including 450 music halls. The capital invested in London places of amusement is little short of $20,000,000, without reckoning places like the Crystal palace, Albert hall, etc. Direct employment is given to about 150,000 people, besides indirect employment to a host of tradesmen and workpeople. The London theatres, music halls and concert halls have accommodation for about half a million of sight seers. The capital invested in similar places of amusement in Great Britain is over §30,000,000, This gives direct employment to about 850,000 people and provides accommodation for nearly 1,200,000 spectators.—Chatter. "+I.V
Hardly Courteous.
During the epidemic of influenza in one of our cities a gentleman who was suffering acutely from it went down town one morning, and on the way met at least a dozen sympathetic friends. At tho twelfth encounter his patience was exhausted. "Have you the prevalent cold?" inquired his twelfth assailant, a burl}-, good natured man. "Yes," said the invalid, captiously "I have. Have you the prevalent sympathy?"
Tho retort was hardly courteous, and the man himself felt ashamed of it afterward, hut at the moment,it seemed to do •"•'"i eood.—Youth's Companion.
Ladles Hava Tried It.
A number of my lady customers have t'led "Mother's Friend" and would not bo without It for many times Its cost. They recommend It to all who are to bocome mothers. R. A. PAYNE, Druggist, Greenville, Ala. Write Bradfleld Bps?. Co., Atlanta, Ga., for particulars. By N've & Co.
FIG LEAVES OF FASHION.
MRS. LESLIE DECUVRES THAT DRESS IS A PLEASING NECESSITY.
Iiuportanoo of "Tubbing"—Dainty Under
clothing—ilinclc Silk Substitute* for Luce
und Mufilln—A Good Word for Curfett. Don't l!uy Clieup Shoes or Gloves.
ICopyright, 1800.] HERE is no use in pretending that the question of dress is a frivolous or an idle one, or that sensible women are above it, or that a an finds horself with
wear" and takes time and thought in providing herself with something must needs
be a Flora McFlimsey„ I have often insisted both by tongue and pen that every woman owes a duty to the world—poor things, we owe so many duties to the world—but one especial duty peculiar to woman is that of beautifying the earth and doing her best to counteract the sordid, material and deadening influences always strug gling to "como out on top."
All women are not pretty, all are not graceful, or "stylU'n," or attractive, or imposing but every woman has a best side, and it is her duty to know it and to make the most of it, and to keep it on view instead of the worst side, which so many of the dear creatures 6eem determined to present.
Every woman, if she means to fill her own place in the world, is bound to make the most of herself and to keep on doing it as iong as she lives.
Of course there are ever so many ways to apply this rule, and I have in other places pointed some of them out and urged them upon the attention of the sisterhood, but today I confine myself to the one question of dress.
To begin with, every style, every degree, every caprice of costume must be founded upon personal cleanliness. It may be thought too candid a statement, and I do sincerely hope that every woman reading these words will bo righteously indignant at such a warning, but to such an one I will say: Of course, my dear, it is not meant for you any more than for myself, but there arc wo-' men!
W ell, then, the well dressed woman must be not many hours from her bath, and must carry about her that atmosphere of freshness so obvious and characteristic of the upper classes in England well groomed" they call themselves, and a young Englishman, whatever else you may say of, him, does suggest the idea of buckets of water, sponges, towels, combs and brushes. So, in a more subdued style, should the well dressed woman, whether her costume be of cotton, wool, silk or cloth of gold.
Next to the bath com?., and agum buy, uo worniui, whatever the fabric of her outer dress may be, is well dressed, or dressed as she should be, unless she has dainty underclothing. "But a good many of us can't afford itl" cries a voice in my ear, and I reply:
But we, all can, my dear, for "dainty" does not always mean expensive, and one of the very daintiest outfits of linen that I ever saw was mode for herself by a voung girl of small means but great refinement, about to be married. The only expense in the whole matter was that she had used cambric instead of that stout cotton fabric which in New York is called "muslin," and which, although a few cents in the yard cheaper than cambric, is utterly incapable of being made dainty.
Well, not to enter into particulars, my little bride had crocheted and tatted and netted and knitted the greatest variety of trimmings, and had run little blue ribbons in at neck and sleeves and frills, and had embroidered a big monogram on everything, and in some places had appliquM sprigs aud wreaths of French embroidery, and in fact had quite unconsciously to herself written tlie word lady over the whole business, until it seemed to me almost a liberty to be turning over and admiring such personal matters.
The dear child had hardly half a dozen gowns in her trousseau, and none of those at all expensive but although she had not made them she h».d contrived them, and each one told, and would do its whole duty and always look appropriate to the occasion.
Two dresses were planned to be made into one after a year or two, and would then be more effective than either could be alone, and a sumptuous evening dress with a court train and low body could, by detaching the train and substituting a high bodice, be worn in the street or at a reception. A silk slip was provided with two or three very distinct gauze and lace over dresses, and so throughout, for this bride was destined to that hardest of positions for a woman—that of one who wishes and is required to dress well upon small means. She lived in the world, and among people richer than herself, but as I looked through the scanty trousseau and saw how every penny spent upon it was made to tell, and how good taste, and discretion, and willing fingers had supplemented the money outlay, I felt serenely confident that Mrs. would always be one of the best dressed women of my acquaintance and so, in fact, Bhe is.
But again, it is not every woman who, lacking money, has skill or time to make pretty things for herself, and to such I would say: Don't sink down into feeling that you don't carel Do tho very best you can with the means at your command, and keep on trying to do better. Get a few pretty underclothes and by care in mending, putting on a new edging, running in a bright ribbon, etc., things may be kept pretty for a long while. I was in a shop once with a little lady who gathered up tho blue ribbons the iuilesman stripped off of a bale of
mull, whispering to me, "It goes liioeiy in au insertionl" Ono article of underwear deserves especial notice, and tliat is the corset. A certain class of reformers ha^e bent their energies more or less for many years to tho destruction and exile of tills "means of gracc," and with some success. A hideous garment, or, rather, an agglomeration of garments, known nsil "dross reform," or "combination,'' has been invented, and a lurge class ct bravo and determined women have worn them, and some continuo to weal them, but whence tho satisfaction tliej seem to derive and the benevolent wish to induco everybody else to follow tlieir example, I never could understand. They certainly lose in appearancc, for I don't think tho most rabid reformer ctn really prefer the bulky waists, the flit busts and the queer look as if the woman and her clothes were walking in opposite directions, or as if the house wet-o on fire and she had thrown sotno shapeless wrapper over her nightdress.
Of course, everybody concedes, in these days of liygieno and common senso, that a corset should never be worn tight enough to hinder respiration, even under violent exercise. It should never make one feel it uncomfortable to throw one's self upon a lounge in, the daytime, nor should it bo a relief to tike it off at night. It should bo simply, as the old fashioned name implies, a "stay" to tho body, holding it in comely form and making a smooth, harmonious surfaco over which to lit the gown. And to do this properly the corset must be well made and of good material. Don't buy poor ones, if you go without one of your gowns to secure the price of good ones. If you have a naturally good figure a cheap corset won't fit you if you have a poor figure no dressmaker can mako it better unless you give her a good corset to fit over. Cheap corsets are always straight up and down, scant in tho bust and hips, stiff and unyielding of fabric and furnished with bogus tones that warp and break at once. Leave everything under §3 to the dress reformers as objects of holy horror and whets to their appetites for anathema.
A. caprice of fashion in these later years has suggested underclothing and corsets of various tints and fabrics, culminating in black silk. During one of my visits to Paris I allowed myself to be persuaded into buying- some sets of this black silk raiment, including a corset, but I did so merely to secure a memento of a vagary of tho mode sure to soon pass away for however pretty and piquant rose, or blue, or scarlet, or black may be in contrast with a soft, white neck and arms, nothing satisfies tho eye, or soothes the conscience of good taste, like creamy white in cambric and lace and embroidery. One, however, must here mako an exception in the matter of hose, which should, to my mind, never be white, unless in harmony with some especial costume.
Boots, again, aro a matter where one may not judiciously economize. Be your foot pretty or ugly, bo sure you will spoil it both as to appearance and feeling by wearing cheap and therefore ill fitting boots.
When I have time I mean to devote myself to the question of why cheap garments, corsets, shoes, skirts, gloves, whatever you please, are always fashioned for ill shaped forms. Why is it not as easy to cut a cheap shoe long and narrow and with a high instep as short and wide ahd flat? And so with all the rest you cannot economize ou corsets, shoes or gloves and be well dressed. And one word more: If you have slippers let them be chronic invalids, never leaving the bedroom! It is very nice and comfortable to have a pair to slip into as you go to your bath or your wardrobe, or sit at your toilet table at night, but there ends their appropriate use. Well fitting yet Cozy boots aro the wear for every other emergency of life. They are the most becoming of all foot gear they brace and protect the ankle, and they are in tho long run (no pun intended) far more comfortable than slippers or low shoes.
Of course they may be so prettily and delicately made as to Buit the airiest costume, and when of that style are a fascinating detail of a dancing costume. I remember a pair I had made of violet silk to match a costume, which were really loves. And as a proof that good and well fitted boots preserve the feet from change or infirmity, I will mention that my own have been made upon the same last for twenty years without the least change, and that I can put on a now pair before breakfast and wear them all day without once remembering them. But they are good boots. So having disposed of what may bo called the confidential portion of a woman's toilet, let us consider thoso "outward and visible signs" by which tho world will judge whether she is well dressed or uot.
As to material. So many women seem to fancy that a very cheap silk is necessarily better than a good woolen or even cotton fabric. Now, it is not so and I always want to say as much to tho dear struggling souls whom I often meet in much trimmed robes of that thin and rustling silk which reminds ono of dried autumn leaves whirling along before a dusty breeze. Even such silk costs quite as much as good cashmere, or some ono of tho hundred other varieties of soft woolen fabrics, and the cost of tho cheap and showy passementerie used to trim tho silk would have provided enough good silk, or velvet, or handsome buttons to make the wool dress all that it should be. Here is a little secret: Any one accustomed to think of such things, seeing you in that silk would perceive that you could not afford to buy a good one and had to put up with the second choice or tho third, but, seeing the good woolen, would take it for granted that you preferred it to silk, aud that you were able to buy a very good one and trim it accordingly.
Another suggestion is this: Let each year look out for itself, and only provide gowns and wraps enough atonce for that season. A street dress, if tailor made, or at least in the plain and somewhat severe style suited to a walking dress, one or two dinner or evening dresses, and a pretty house dress are all that anybody
needs for ono season even In society, and these should be renewed each year, and mode in tho latest style of tho day.
A great many persons always object to any new fashion. They won't wear crinoline, and they considor bustles deformity, and thoy object to high shoulders, and they don't liko tho now hats, or tho new fashion of wearing tho hair, and thoy sneer, and fuss, and laugh at them all during their freshness and novelty, and then at last come creeping iu, when everything is old and stale, with a feeblo and melancholy compromise, and often end by wearing that especial thing after everybody else has abandoned it.
No, let us adopt tho new fashions wliilo they aro now, say I, and loud rather than follow the field, unless wo aro resolved nover to adopt any chongo at all, and in that case better to don tho Sister of Charity's costume at once.
But if you would do this, if you would really bo stylish and abreast of tho modo, havo few gowns at a timo and do not try to make last year's gown answer for this year. If it can be made over so as not to bo recognized, have it made over, or give it to your sister, vonr cousin or your aunt, but for yourself imitate tho lilies of tho field, who dress themselves entirely fresh for every season.
Aud whatever you do with tho old gowns, let mo implore you not to try to wear them out at homo! Any man is justified in divorcing a wife who wears dirty finery at home and makes her evening dresses serve as wrappers for the breakfast table. You can buy charming cambrics and ginghams for ten or fifteen cents a yard and mako a fresh aud pretty houso gown for less than $5, and in it you will very likely convince your husband that you do absolutely need that new bonnet ho would bo sure to deny to the soiled dinner dress.
Then one final point upon which I most strenuously insist is this: Every woman has her own style, aud Bho never will bo well dressod until sho has learned what it is, and learned to humor it and encourage it. Aro you tall, straight and of painful thinness? Don't wear stripes or redingotes or tailor made wraps. Are you quite tho reverse? Escliow draperies and flufliness about tho shoulders, aud horizontal trimmings. I walked a little way yesterday behind an unfortunate lady,very short and very broad, who wore a velvet dolman reaching only to the waist in the back and very high upon tho shoulders, and I was sorry for her.
But this paper has reached its utmost limits, and lest it should not be printed at all I must hero cut short tho thread with which I have caught together theso stray fig leaves of fashion, and say at once Good-bv. Mils. Frank Leslie.
Tho Latent Purls Fashions.
The past month has brought to sight in Paris an unusually largo number of the old nobility of France. Handsome salons that have been 'closed
DRESS OF THE DUCHESSE D'UZEZ. to all but a very small and select circle of friends have been thrown opon, and the always beautiful Duchesse d'Uzez gave a grand reception, whero no one whose rank was less than a baron or count or countess was seen. Mine, la Duchesse wore a superb robe en traine of electric blue plush, with- a drapery of embroidered crepe de chine in pale blue. In her abundant hair she wore a crescent of diamonds.
H. R. H. PRINCESS DE CHARTRES AND l'iUKCESS MARGUERITE. When her royal highness tho Princess do Chartres and the young Princess Marguerite visited tho prison where the royal prisoner was they woro adorable toilets, just suited to tho occasion. Thoy were somber in color and plain in outline. The young fiancee of the Due d'Orleans woro a slate gray cloth and black velvet wrap, with a hat and plumes to match, while the Princess de Chartres wore a dark green stuff robo, with a charming little visits of black velvet and faille, trimmed with silk passementerie and fringe, and wore a black fcapote to inulcli.
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Beginning Saturday, February Sth, we will begin selling $13,000 worth of Boots and Shoes at manufacturer's cost. This is no blurt'or reduction of stock, but genuine closing out sale. Our burgains are. too numerous to mention, but if you will call at the store, we will convince you of the fact. We also have some $2,000 worth of Ladies' Fine HandSewed and Hand-Turned Shoes of Large si^e that will go for 25 to 75 per cent, less than cost. This is strictly cash sale
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[Successor to Montague & Rankin,1 Office and residence over Corner Book Storo Special attention given to chronlo dlsoasoB.
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