The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1871-01-26
WESTMINSTER MD, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26 Is7.
TO YOUNG LADIES.
Hints and Suggestions About Dress.

Minus ana suggestions About Dress.
My angelic young friends, for yon are
all angels, of course, and friends ofthos,
who give you good advice. Let us speak
Of certain ,hinss that you are rer,iss in.
| mean dress.
GLovEs.--ia the first place you are
entirely too economical in YOUR ploye
purchases. Iustead Of purchasing two
or three pairs of three dollar gloves per
week, you should never appear twice in
the same pair. To we4r one pair more
than twice is vulgar, so don't do it.
B0NNETs.-Excuse me ca a hardly
employ any general name that will SO
well cover the infinite variety of head
gear in vogue. You don't as a rule
pay enough for them. 1t is true that
two dollars buy oil the material, but
then Madame Bigettc, the famous mil.
liner, pays half dollar for maxim, the
bonnet, and you know she must have a
profit on her work-say ten dollars
which is very reasonable; and then she
must add ten dollars more for her rep.
u'ation. Else what is the advantage Of
being the milliner +? Don't be so econom
ical 1t the milliner charges twenty
dollars for the hat, and if, for ten dol.
lars more, she will add chickens tail
feather, with glass beads dangling there.
from, which costs twenty Eve certs.
don't hesitate ! Have it done.
HAIR.-And here you are all too
mindful of your stingy fathers money
Buy hair ! Buy more hair !! Buy all
the hair you eau !! u There are thirty
thousand hair gatherers in Europe TO-
day, visiting the hospitals and slums of
the great cities, and the peasant girls of
the rural districts and slums of the great
cities, buying hair shearcd from the
filthy, the sick, the dying and the dead
and shipping it to this country, purpos
ely for your use. 1t is washed, and
soaped, and scraped, aud combed, till
all the population aud all the lille bcaas
thereon are removed, Then it is dried
and sorted and made into switches to
adorn your pretty heads. OF course it's
false. Every one knows that. God
never made u young lady with face the
size OF q tea saucer, and the back ofher
head as big as water pail. Pay any
price then to get switches Pay twenty,
fifty, one hundred dollars each if need
be, but have switches Aud get two
get several. Get enough to make
pancake that will reach from two inches
above the top Of your head to the shoul.
der blades, and project literally three
inches beyond each ear. Fill this pan.
cake with old hemp, spun yarn, stock.
iogs, anything, so you get it big enough.
Then rejoice.
DREssEs.-Iu your mothers maiden
years, calico was good dress, a meri,
no, an excellent one, aud that one silk
dress was her glory and her pride. She
says she used to make her own dressesl
Don't mind her-she's slow. She's a
poke. The idea! You wouldn't wear
dress is Miss Murfis the dressmake er
didn't make it, and charge six prices.
Aud your mother hints that one new
dress per month is enough Give the
demented woman piece of your mind.
And tell father, if he cant dress you as
well as your chums dress, he had better
sell out to some one who eau. That'll
stop him. No young lady can dress on
less than one thousand year. "Aud
its mean for pa to expect we can look
dowdy us his wife did when he married
her" Quite right, my dears. Go for
the ancient. Make him come down.
SHOES Get them with sewing ma.
chine white stitching, made to order;
''raady made shoes are vulgar, aud don't
ftW Ofcourse they don't. And even
if ready made shoes could be got for
three or four dollars, don't have 'em
Get measured and pay fifteen. Get as
high priced ones as possible.
The other articles Of dress, such as
furs, cloaks, etc., are to be purchased in
the same manner. If you can buy the
velvet for forty dollars, aud make your
own cloak, don't you do it, even if mother
proffers her assistance. She is slow and
poky. What does she know of the
styles? No, indeed! Buy it, and pay one
two or three hundred dollars.
Having now given you general direc.
tions for dressing, my dear young friends,
in my next l'shall instruct you regarding