The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-11-20
TIFFIN TRIBUNE.
rim. Thursday Eve. Nov. 20, 1873
How \ Plain woman Makes Herself
Pretty

fretty.
Cornelia Jackson is the reetor's
daughter in Uppercut, and hasn't
above 800 q year to spend on her
clothes and to boy Christmas presents
with. She is little too plump, is
brown. with some warm color in her
cheeks In summer, and has dark hair.
Her face never would be noticed ex-
cept for the jollity lurking in II, which
she takes from her father. In winter
and fall, when she looks pale, she
"tones up'' with 8 morning dress Of
all-Wool stuff, one Of those brown
grounds with small punches of brill
liant crimson or purple flowers
CHEEKY pattern that the rector likes to
have meet him behind the coffee-urn
of q cold morning, with crisp, white
ruffies, set of by the brown dress.
Crimson or purple, soft brilliant
shades, are her eolors for neck-ties.
Her street dress is q dark walnut
brown cloth, trimmed with cross-cut
velvet Of the same shade.
The overskirts of Cornella's dres-
ses are always long, so that she will
not look like q fishing-bob or doll
pincushion; and there is deep rose
color about her bonnet; not roses-by-
| the-Way-she has an unspoken feeling
that is not for everybody to wear
roses-but velYety malloWs and
double stocks, limitations Of fragrant
pleasing garden flowers that are very
| ike herself. The brown and GRIM
son maiden of q winter day is q
pleasant sight, when the gray of the
I ri rryhffn OF tho r,oar
something warm and eye-filling TO
come between them. In summer she
chooses, or her cousin in New York
chooses for her, not the light percales
that every one else is wearing, mol
the grays and stone-oolOrs that walk
to church every Sunday, but ecru
linens, with relief of black or brown
for morning, when she goes from pan
try to garden, and from sewing ma
chime 20 nursery. Afternoons she
doesn't divide herself by putting on q
white blouse and eolored skirt, or
buff redingote over q black train, but
wears a dress of one color, that looks
as ifit meant to stay at home.
White nanisoOk is her delight, its
semi-transparency wonderfully suit
ing her clear BROWNIES, but solid
white linen or cambria she escbews.
Soft violet jaconet and the whole fam
lily OF lilacs are made for her; and she
is luxurious in ruffies and flounees on
her demi-treined skirts, since she
makes and irons them often herself,
Black gPenadine, ofcourse, she wears,
with high Inning, to give her
waist its full length, every bit
of which it needs; and she is
not too utiltarian to neglect the
aid which q modest demi-train on a
house dress gives to her height. All
the girls may wear pufied waists and
plated waists; she knows they are
not for her plump shoulders, though
the clusters of fine tueks on . blouse
give length to her bust, and divide the
width of her back. ShaWls she never
wears, nor short perky basques, that
are eonsidered-I don't know why
the proper thing for stout figures.
The long polonaise, and the short
English jacket, which by its high
shoulders and simple lines conveys q
decent comeliness Of figure, whoever
wears it, are her choice, II she had 9
party dress, it would be white French
muslin, or light green silvery silk,
trimmed with plaitings Of tulle, and
with either she would wear her moth
er's pearls, or her own fine carbun-
cles.