The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-12-25
SOMETHING TO WEAR.
How it should be Worn-A Household
Talk on Ways and Means.
From the Brooklyn Union.

Brown, pdter, got up from the breakfast
table on the 5th of December, this A. ID.
1868, exchanged his slippers for boots, put
on his overcoat, kissed Brown, mater, and
pretty daughter Cecilia, took his bat and
cane, and put his hand on the door knob
with the intention OF going into the hall
and thence into the street.
'-Oh, papa, by the way, can you let me
have little money this morning said
| Cecela. as il she had that moment thought
OF 1t.
Truth to tell, the little hypocrite had
nearly choked herself with beetsteak, and
had run imminent risks OF indigestion by
swallowing hot rolls half mastlcated, just
because she was totally absorbed III think
ing how she could ask this very little ques
ton.
More money, Cecilia confound it !!
Didn' t lgive you money In October-ali
you ought to spend IN year-and didn' t
you say you shouidn want any more till
spring Z"
les papa, but | can help it, haven t
cent, and really L III not tit I'd go into the
street. /"
Then l should think you had better
stay in the house, answered the paternal
Brown, aud the same time unbuttoning his
overcoat and taking out his pocketbook.
Here hundred dollars, and you posi-
lively mustn't ask lie for money again,
and he sloSeG the door with an impatient
bang, and FASTENED away to join the bulls
and bears, who would soOu be believing
| and growing at their loudest.
Cecilia took up the crisp note and looked
| at it, In vexed, Disconnected way, while
Mrs. Brown fingered over her last cup of
coffee, and read about shooting tragedy"
in the morning paper.
1T isn't half enough, mamma no, not
| a quarter. have got to have another hat
anu an evening bonnet, aud 1t l don't have
u new opera cloak shan go to the opera
this winter.
Il thoosh you had hat already" said
Mrs. Blown sui at her tragedy.
Il know [ bought one LII October, but
its outrageousiy Old fashioned by this time,
There are several new styles, and I'm not
going out dressed like Methuselah' 5 wife.
The newest style is sort of high cap, with
the velvet putfed over the frame, aud ro-
settle OF satin ribbon at the top, with long
floating ends There are some beauties at
Madame Fieury tor twelve dollars, and
l III going out this very morning to get
one. | don't see why papa need make
such fuss every time | ask him for money.
Not ask him again did you hear him
say that?'
Yes, dear, he didn't mean it, and if he
did he Ii forget it. But really, Cecilia, you
must be more careful; your father ism t
made Of money. There your cousin Jen-
ny, she doesn have quarter of your al
lowance, and she always saves something
for a holiday present, book or chomro,
or any pretty trlf1e she fancies."
please. mamma, don't throw cousin
Jenny ia my face. | never expect to imi
tate her. know she always has money,
and she dresses ten times as well as [ do,
but don t see how she does it," added
the pretty spendthrift, as forlorn as Wall
street gambler newly come 20 grief
| Just here the bell rang, and cousin Jen
ny herself tripped into the break fast room,
looking bright and flower like, her delicate
| face flushed with brisk walking in the
morning air-and 10 on her braided and
creped hair rested jaunty velvet hat pre-
eisely like One Cecilia saw at Madams Fleu
| ry's
lyon have just come in time" said
Mrs Brown, Ito tell Cecilia how to spend
her hundred dollars"
| YES" said Cecilia. edo, for Heaven S
sake, Jenny, tell me how you dress SO well
on your allowance; how can you afford to
have two hats this season if | can't"
| II haven't had two. | didn't want to
| get my hat till the winter styles came out
( So | had my summer hat dyed, and ] trim
med it myself with bits of velvet that
found among the odds and ends, and a
pheasant's breast that [ had worn two sea-
sons already SO my Lat cost me less than a
dollar.
! 'And mine cost ten dollars. I never no.
ticed that yours wasn't just as expensive as
nine. All | thought about it was ycu
looked pretty in it, -
| ''That's the ultimate aim of dress, aside
from what is barely necessary" said Jenny
| laughing, 1T doesn't matter whether we
spend much or little so long as the object
is accomplished
"But one cant dress we'll without spend
| ing good DEAL now, your cloak, for i'm
stance, must have cost $50. [ paid that
for purple beaver last winter, and this
winter paid as much more for my black
one."
II was strongly tempted to get purple
one myself asst minter but / decided that
it wouldn't be good economy; and it it Ger
taniy not good taste for lady to Indulge
in fancy colors unless she can have a cloak
tor every Costume. 90 bought black bea-
yer and had my cloak cut and made it N.Y.
self. / bought the best material, and this
winter altered and re>trimmed it, adding
a pointed hood and such other trimming as
| required.
"Those narrow pointed hoods are much
W ORR" said Mrs. Brown.
They are very fashionable They are
made long and narrow. some.of them reach
ing below the waist: and where the mate
rial is suitable they are often trimmed
through the centre with small satin bows /:
hoods or Astra khan cloaks are trimmed
around the entire edge with beautiful llama
fringe"
We'll, I am always running ashore
somewhere. said Cecilia, still intent up-
On her troubles now it takes a deal of
money to keep in boots and Shoes
II always look out for that the first
thing. IF it is a choice between new boots
and new bonnet, then the bonnet must
be sacrificed. The French have a proverb,
Bi'en chausse ct bien gan1e on "a partout
which means substantially, if you wear
good boots ank gloves, [ seldom buy black
ones; only pair or two year. with en-
| hroidered backs y