The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-11-21

Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher discuss
ing how We shall dress. says: "In max
ing purchases IL 10 economy to select M
good articles ~ ones income will war
rant; for there is no saving in buying
anything simply because it is cheap. un-
less il is also good aud serviceable. To
buy needless and fiimsy article be-
cause the price is unusually low is waste
not economy.
For daily use the dress should be
chosen with reference to the work that
must be done while wearing il. Make ii
neat and comfortable for such work,
without regard to style unless, by
some unusual freak, fashion may have
adopted something simple aud conven-
lent. To see girls sail through the
kitchen or bend over the wash tub in
travelling wrapper, sweeping the dirt
from the floor or soaking in the suds,
should prevent more sensible women
from giving the warrant OF their exam
pie to those under their influence.
None should marry who cannot begin
life with enough to enable them to
dress with neatness, modesty, comfort,
and good taste without unduly en-
croaching on their income. No article
is cheaper for being ugly. First be
sure OF the price, then examine the
quality OF the goods to be purchased.
Ginghams aud calicoes are the most
serviceable for working or morning
dresses, because they can be washed.
The less cotton there is in wooden fab
RIGS, the longer they will last without
looking shabby.
III a person must be much in the
kitchen, or finds it necessary to attend
closely to the cooking, wooden dresses
are so difficult to clean that il they are
used 1t is prudent to have a long sac
que apron, made with sleeves, reaching
almost to the bottom of the skirt.
II is commonly held that one silk
dress at least is indispensable. We see
no pressing necessity for it; one can be
truly respectable without even one silk
dress.
Oar American silks are the most en-.
during and economical of any kind OF
silk, and one dress will outlast two or
three OF other material, unless il may
be those very heavy silks beyond the
reach OF persons in moderate circum-
stances, costing from six to eight dol
lars n yard.
The New York Graphic takes up the
question OF prices, and the fact that a
dress can be bought cheaper than it
can be made. Ii exclaims from a sort
OF a mans point Of view.
1t seems an absurdity for a woman
to sit down and make a dress now a
dda5yssse da5ys 0E Are G % yobSGiHed iH APPARENT
limitless profusion, aud in styles as
diversified as need be to suit many
different tastes. Beginning at morning
wrappers, there are dresses OF print
completely made for Sl.10, and these
rise in styles and prices until in cam
bpric they reach $3.50, and are really
nice for any lady to wear upon a Sun
day morning. There are elaborate
suits of cambria and French percale,
50. 80 aud S6. 90, made in different sty-
les, with overskirts and jackets, or new
princes polonaises, with side pockets,
founces upon the lower skirts, and in
the favorite chocolate or dark blue.
There are linens-linen in suits and
linen in costumes, linen embroidered,
and linens trimmed with laces, linens
ecru and linens brown or dark blue, and
linens which are only Of the simple, un-
bleached material for the travelling or
country riding wear. There are suits
of wash" poplin, composed of three
pieces, trimmed with plating for $500
or mohair, from $40 to Sl5; aud of fine
mohair poplin, - fashionably made
for s22 There are combinations of
silk and mohair or silk and cashmere
from co5 ~ $50, summer silks from so
10 s75. and black silks and grenadines
from S45, to $3.50. This list is not TAX
en- from common factory-make goods,
but from the stoclPof large and repu-
table establishment.