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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 h ... IT ..t, t. . --aVi'i . . j >Vj- •>?*. 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- , iwbwdbks.pEii‘'' : '‘ - ... ..-yilfri-iJ 'f.'-'f ERAR'-RiR- l >1 (V.