Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-09-02
THE WOMAN SIDE.
Feminine EcoMomy-EIoxv Women go
Shopping, ana Make Their Own
BOMme(2.

Fe minnie EcOMOmy-EIOvv Women go
Shopping, ana Make Their Own
An indignant Indy writes as follows to the
N. !. Commercial Advertiser:
II a license could he procured enabling
one to walk ono block OH Broadway, i'll
quiring Of every lady il she made her hat,
l will wager the best batch of cream griddlo
cakes ever tasted by New Yorker that
| eight out of dozen would inform you that
she bought the frame and made it herself,
perhaps inform you that she saw ono just
like it which cost twenty-five dollars or
maybe forty dollars, while the real cost Of
hers is well, we don't tell all VIC know II
mere triflo in comparison, and looks
M though it might have been twice tho
price Of the model. You would bow down
to the pavement with humility If tho truth
were known what natural economists wo-
shopping; we must find the cheapest price!
| purchase Of it for another day, when, no
matter if We buy nothing else, VIC
call it shopping, and the ignoramus
wonders how we can be satisfied
to spend so much time in shopping.
Would you like to see my bonnet? I
attend Mr. Bcecher's church ,nd sit in tho
| third seat from the front, in the gallery; it
is what many would call q 'pertect love"
and yet presume il the young man who
sits Just behind me wcro asked tho probable
cost he would moro than double tho real
value, that is if he is good judge Of lncc.
| Ii [ tell you the lace has been worn for years,
and goes to parties during the winter sea-
son in another capacity, don't be surprised.
The little bud which lies gracefully over
one side, rs it is just dropping, is to cover
good sized darn. The light silk, trim
med with lilac flounces, just across the
aisle, has little history, too. It has
been lying for years, awaiting resurrcc-
ton. The main skirt is a remnant bought
at Stewards for song, and If the upper
skirt were raised, which you will perceive
is carefully adjusted now and then, you
will discover lining instead of silk. The
lilac silk WAS pressed and cut into strips,
and that same young lady and the writer
spent all OF one morning in front base
ment, hammering away upon pinking-
iron, to produce an effect which, it seems,
is going to help to doom us to old maidism
because wea extravagant!
"Yonng men are positively afraid to mar
ry." Daughters must consider they are
born into the world for some other purpose
than to lead butterfly life" This is 10
40, WIZ ult HliLDs3 W Sudlc SOIIOW uAu aN
versity at any time with those we love! Is
our extravaganza the true cause of so many
young ladies being without affianced hus-
bands, or is it because there are so many
more young women in New York state than
men, that there :sr't man apiece2 Per-
haps the young mans habits may have
something to do with it, as cigars and
drinks cost cons derable, or, may be, the
good ones have q II been taken; at any rate,
something is the matter.
The gentleman who writes articles about
us, warning Tie world as he would tres.
passers in forbidden orchards, 'Bcware OF
the dog, for he bites, should be judged by
jury composed of ladies' once young and
interesting, but fast falling into the ''sere
and yellow leaf" who fully understand the
crime tor which the prisoner is tried.
Those young ladies who are weak-minded
enough to confess that they wouldn't oh.
ject to good husband, if such a thing
could be found nowadays, arc never to be
seen except in the plainest, the cheapest
and the ugiiest of bonnets and dresses
Yours, awaiting an apology.