Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1898 — WITH THE DRESSMAKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WITH THE DRESSMAKER

Evening dresses are not cut quite so | low on the shoulder as before, and the ! sleeves are either very small or very : long and transparent, fitting the arm like a glove and falling over the hand. White lawn, very sheer and fine, is much used for blouse waists made with a yoke of alternate rows of lace and embroidered Insertion. They are pretty to wear hot days with linen or pique skirts. Skirts are finished in various ways at the bottom; many ding to the longused velveteen binding, because of its durability, and use it on all sorts of gowns, though for finer gowns good dressmakers use a wide braid of silk or worsted. Bindings with a cord finish are much used, and if the quality is good they wear well. Cotton gowns of all sorts are prettier than ever this season. Ginghams and chambrays are trimmed with ruffles of white braid and wide collars made of alternate stripes of white batiste or swiss muslin and insertion edged with lace; organdies have innumerable tucks, tiny ruches and frillings of satin ribbon. They say the fall gowns are to , l»e trimmed with fringe, but except a very narrow variety it has not appeared as yet. The Business Woman. The business woman has come to the front to such an extent that she is a topic of discussion quite frequently, says a writer in the Philadelphia North American. I am constantly impressed with the comparative amenability to discipline of men as compared with women. A woman who takes a business position is usually, I th.uk, anxious to perform her duties to the very best of her ability, and she is interested and enthusiastic, and will work hard to do as well as she can not only in her own way, but in the way her employer Wishes it done, but she has to be led gently. My expression, “amenability to discipline,” may not be a good one. Perhaps I should say that a man will take with meekness a sharp and, perhaps, uncalled for rebuke, which a woman would resent in an instant and give up her position rather than endure. Talk about women being hard on their own sex- First listen to what one man can say to another over whom he has a little authority for a time. He may be altogether the inferior of the two. but whatever the superior in po sition has to say the other receives with calmness, not to say meekness, and goes ahead and does exactly as he is told. Would a woman do that? No. Love and Devotion. It is such a happy thing to be assured of love and devotion. The half of us go through life believing that those who care for us can guess just how deep is our appreciativeness of them without our putting into so many words just what we think and feel. I believe that we miss much that is heart cheering just because of this. “If I had only known,” is the burden of more than one regretful refrain.*” However much or severe our philosophy, none of us are Indifferent to what is thought of us. Female Criminal*. Of the 7,559 convicts now in the prisons of Massachusetts, 1,007 are women. During the year just ended there was an increase of t»S in the number of women and a decrease of 155 men. Don’t put any man on a pedestal. Sooner or later he will fall down and the crash will scare you almost to •death. '