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VOL XXII NO. 32.
Al’PROPRIATEENSS IN DRESS
Choosing Dress For Different
Occasions, Etc.
].otter No. 6. of a series of 20.
Cop} righted 1904 by Christine Herrick,
Never yet was there a normal
woman who did not wish to dress
well. What dressing well means is
determined by each one for herself.
In the early stages it probably ment
unlimited tig lea} s, and a little latei
a new pelt from this or that animal
or a new style to a garment woven
of bark of trees.
Suoli.simplicity has unfortunately
come to an end. The point has
been reached where a woman cannot
dross as she pleases, but roust dress
like the majority of women. It is
1 a blessed dispensation tbat she us-_
ually likes to be in the fashion, or
somewhere near it, and feels it no
hardship to conform to prevailing
modes. Infaot,she usually likes
it. Iler chief difficulty ib how to
manage to conform when she has not
enough money to do it cn.
Appropriate dressing should be
an easy matter for the woman who
has a generous allowance for her
wardrobe. Then it is hei own fault
if she does not have suitable cos
tumes for every emergency. Ap
propriate dressing is also without
complications for the women who
never go any where except to church
and whose needs are supplied by
working frocks and one gown for
best. Even such an one doub.tless
thinks they have their troubles, bu,t
they arc as nothing to these of the
woman who must ,so to
serve two masters,— or who in other
words, must fill more functions than
those of the house keeper and church
goer, and must dress for these other
things without exceeding a com
paratively small sum. Such
woman finds dressing well more or
less of a problem usually more
rather than less. ■
To women like this the fashion of
seperate skirts and waists has come
as a positive boOn. In the days
when one mast have a gown of one
material, dressing was more com
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1004
selected, not for its beauty alone,
because it will harmonizo with the
rest of her oostume.
Simple styles should also bo
ohosen by the women who can have
only a limited wardrobe. Extremes
fashion should 1 be avoided.
There is the same objection to these
that there is to the sterling effects
to which I rofered a moment ago.
More than this, such a woman
should study what suits her.
Because a ecriain garment looks
w"i 1 m a fashiou plate or on a figure
or in a show window, it does not
followtLiU.il will do as much oil
every ' woman. One would not
believe the blunders which women
will make, did uotone see illustra
tions of such“hreaks”ou evory side.
The stout woman who wears light
fabrics of large flaring patterns, the
slim “lanky” women who adopt
stylcb with long severe lines, the
short dumpy figures that out abom-
selves in two in the middle by
conspicuous belts or by a glaring
contrast between tho hues of the
stuff of the skirt and tho waist,
encompass us about ou eVery side.
Tho tailor is the best friend
of i ho woman who must bo
economical about her clothes.
A tailor mado gown, if the style in
which it is fashioned is carefully
ohosen, is likely to suit almost any
figure. Its simplicity disarms crit-
icBm and renders it appropriate for
nearly any oocasiou except one
where full dresB is required. The
woman who has a tailor made skirt
and jacket of good cut can lot her
fancy go a bit in the matter of
shirt waist. She may have them
plain and serviceable for morning
wear, dressy and frilly for calling
or the theatre or small social
affairs, and she may* seek a com.
promise between the two for s
waist to wear to church or to lectures.
And with each and all of them there
may bo worn the same skirt and, no
one will comment upon the persis.
teiicy with which it appears, so long
as the waist is what it should be and
the skirt itself is not startling in
color or in style.
plex even than it is now. Every [ oostume is woefully untidy and
one whose memory goes back to I shabby. A light or dressy pioture
those times can reoall how the; hat is not in itB proper locality on
waists gave out before the skirts j the head of a woman who must wear
and left one with a supply of the the plainest of ready made costumes.
latter in tolerable order aud a pain
ful dearth of the former. Now,
when one has a skirt of which the
body part is past worthy, a shirt
waist can be made to take the place
of the ont worn garment.
Even with this expedient it is still
possible for women to make mistakes
in their dressing. One of the chief
of these they commit when they
' buy conspicuous clothing. (I am
speaking now of the women who
must wear one gown a long time
The striking effect may pe charming
at first, but before the frock or the
hat or the coat is half worn ont the
woman who wears it and the friends
who see her wear it are tired to
death of it.
Another blunder women make
sometimes is in buying articles of
apparel which will not go together
well, We all know that the woman
who has bought a snuff coloured
gown and a drab jacket, or a da\k
green gown and a hat aimed in a
blue that makes a discord of trots
that set the teeth on edge. The
woman who moat economize on her
clothing must bttyAhrogi > well and
cv.ery piece- pf»her attire 'must he ahould'bol will try
Above all, it does not par to put
so much money into dress that
one must neglect certain things
which would benefit the body that
the dress'is to olothe. A woman
must keep well before she can look
well. If she must choose between a
new evening .gown and means to
iudnoe her to take out door exercise
she makes a big mistake when she
decides for the finery and lets the
other thing go.
The body is a good deal more than
raiment and th< re is more to a good
appearance than fine clothes. The
woman who has trained her body
and improve! her complexion by
athletic occupations,-by long walks
by hor<eback riding, by bicycling,
by such games as golf and tennis,
and has known enough to take oare
of her health after she gets it, is
pretty likely to look well if she
must dress simply* Bearing this in
mind, she will come to the con
elusion that she makes a better
investment when she buys tho right
Black is a boon to the woman
who can afford only one or two new
costumes a year. She must buy
good .blaok in the first place and
then, if she takes tolerable oare of it,
it will look well always. For the
womeu who objects to blaok, (and
there are snob wpinenltherc are dark
blue, dark green, dark brown and
the other indeterminate shades or
mixtures that are plentiful. With
one good tailor made govi i: r.f heavy
weight for winter wear, another of
lighter material for spring and fall,
and snirt waists, plant and dre.sy,
at diseerlioti, a woman may feol
provided for, even if she goes out
a goed deal.
One sensible woman of iny
acquaintance makes it a rule not to
hnve more than two ordinary gowns
on hand at ouo time. As soon as
tho first one begins to lose its
original freshness, she buys another
and takes number one into service
for second best. By the time this
is wholly past worthy tho second
gown is ready to retreat to a more
retired position and to yield the
field to a now, costume. The only
objection to this in tailor niadq
frocks is that the jackets are ljkely
to accumulate until there are more
on baud than one can weaf out. So
it is as well to break the sequence
by an occasional skirt.
All this is for the plain house or
street dress. When one comes to
evening dress the matter is more
complicated. Even here the sep
arate waist ootnes in as a respectable
makeshift. I kuow a woman who
oonBiders herself fortunate in
owning a handsome black broad-
oloth gown, whioh sho wears on
state oooasions, as receptions and
teas. When she goes to a dinner
where full dress is essential, she
exchanges the thiok broadcloth
waist^for a .low neoked bodice of
ohiffon and crepe de chiuo, but the
blaok broadcloth skirt «• still worn.
If sbo could, she would indulge her
self in a heavy silk skirt, but as she
oannot, she relies upon the combina
tion I have described.
The same spirit of compromise
must be practised all through the
wardrobe of the woman of slender
meuns. The woman who is able to
ride in her own carriage or to
summon one from a livery stable
whenever she goes out to< dinner or
to the theatro may treat 4 herself to a
lpng light wrap to throw over her
dinner gown. But sbo who thinks
: lucky if she is able to allow
THE GEORGIA DELEGATION.
Hon. Clark Howell, Georgia's
member of the national democratic
committee, has concluded all tho
arrangements Lr the accommodation
of the Georgia delegation to the
national democratic convention
which meets in St. Louis July 0.
The headquarters of the dele
gation will be at the Southern hotel,
at whioh rooms have been ongaged
for tho twenty-six delegates who
herself lucky
herself a new Winter coat once in
two or three years must restrain her
desire for such pomps and vanities.
Her cold weather outer garment may
be long, but it must be dark enough
to make it suitable for street wear,
If, ,she ehooses to follow her fanoy in
the matter of dainty linings,) well
and good, but the outward appear
ance of the oloak must be sober and
subdued.
After all, one of the best aids to
appropriateness of dress is found in
consistency. A woman does not
wish to order her clothing on the
principle of the tramp who when
asked what were his needs in the line
of dress, replied, “I kid get along
without a clean shirt, but I’m dyin
for want of a buzzom pin”
There is something almost ludi
HON CLAHK HOWELL,,
Georgia's ilonber of the National Demo
cratic Bucutivo Committee.
will go from Georgia. Those
rooms are tile best in the hotel, all
being front rooms and connecting
with baths.
It is the duty of tho national com
mitteeraan of caoh Htate to provide
for accommodations for his state
delegation and this Mr. Howell has
done for the past twelve years,
having served as Georgia’s repero-
seutative on the national oo nmiltee
since 1892*
Immediately after the meeting of
the national com nil it oe last Jan
uary, Mr. Howell took up tho
matter of seouring quarters for tho
Georgia delegation, aud after con
siderable correspondence has con
oludcd a ooatraot by which tho
Georgia delegation to the national
convention has secured the ohoicc of
rooms at the Southern hotel, per
haps tho best known of the hotola of
St. Louis. Among the other state
delegations to be at the Southern
are those of Now York, Ohio, Penn
sylvania apd several others of the
largest states of the union.
Practically every room in the
large hotels of St. Louis has been
engaged for the convention, and the
State delegations which have not as
yet been provided for will have
difficult time in securing comfort
able quarters.
Certainly the delegation from no
state will have more comfortable
quarters than those which' have been
reserved for the Georgian's.
sort of an outing suit than when shn|, . , . . ..
put. m„er tuto „ *
Whsst -Hshoh an outing, oostume 1 elaborate street dtesg
aaouldhel will try ko tell next week. * when one Knows that her home
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The woman in the ohaingang
who swears she will not wear stripes
should be painted like a zebra and
allowed to dress up in a suit of gauze,
Rev. A. B. Finley, postmaster at
Douglas, has been nominated by the
republicans of the 11th district to
oppose Congressman Brantley. A
veritable gnat on a cow’s Lorn.
The department of agriculture
has issued a bulletin on the- culture
of figs. This is a subject much
neglected in Georgia, and may be
come of much interest in a few years.
Worth county had her fifth court
house removed election last week,
carrying it this time from Isabella to
Sylvester by a vote of 2126 to 420.
There, is not likely tq beany co.ptept,
and the thing. wiU loaded on e »
wagon as soon as the jegfslatnre
s approves the election.
Too many farmers live above
their moans wheu credit is open and
buy more than thoy can pay for in
the fall.
At Washington five women are
still drawing pensions as widows of
men who served in tho war of the
revolution, which onded 120 years '
ago.
Lots of pooplc make sharp
remarks withont a thought of tho
sting that it darrias to create a feel
ing against tnom that will never be
forgotten.
A million peoan trees would uow
be growing in Georgia if they
would boar in threo or four years.
But it takes eight to ton years and
the people aro in too much of a
hurry to wait that long for them.
The planting of Bhade troos is
very commob, and tho water oak is
a favoiito, which grows very slow
and is never valuablo oxeopt for
shade. Nut treos grow faster,
produce as much shade, are valuable
for fruit and will last until your
great grand ohildron aro gone.
This paper is is fryor doing away
with tho offioe of coroner in
Georgia, and giving the business to
to tho justice of the district in whioh
the inquest is .hold. It is opposed
to private hangins. If hangins
must be let thorn be public.
A woman stoppud a man on
Commercial street this morning,
and, after talking with him for
some time, invited him to go buggy
riding. “Lady,” said the man
drawing himself up to his full
dignity, “I am a married man.”
It is the second time this man has
been insulted'lately.
Mrs. W. J. Wood, the Atlanta
woman who shot, her husband in a
fit of jealousy, has been taken to the
state farm to servo two years. It is
said that she, went cursing and
swearing that she would never wear
the stripes, hut would tear them
from her as fast as they oould put
them ou her. But- she is wearing
them, and has not torn them from
her. She says she will give the
authorities more trouble than did
Mamie DeCris, and will go down to
min when she gets out and drag
ever soul with her that she can.
The ticket to be voted at the
primary this year will contain the
names of 24 offices and about 44
candidates. The offices to be fills
are named here: Goyernor, com
ptroller general, state treasurer,
attorney general, state sohool com
missioner; commissioner of agricul
ture, prison commissioner, ohief
justice of supreme court, thiee asso
ciate justices, congressman, solicitor
general, state senator, representative
ordinary, clerk, sheriff, tax re
ceivers, tax collector, treasurer,
surveryor, coroner.
In an Illinois town there is adioy
who laughs every time he thinks of
a licking he got the other day. His
pa found a cigar in the boy’s pocket,
confiscated the cigar and gave the
boy such a dressing down as he
thought would keep him away from
cigars for some time ao come.
Then pa leaned 1 ack in his rocket',;
lighted the cigar and picked up hia
paper to read the war hews. . In .
about four, whiffs he imagined
he was a Russian warship, torpedoed
by,the wily Japs, The cigar had-
been nicely loaded, withgunpowder* ? ....
and pa will not heed t<> s&ayd for- ,
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