Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-10-04
A YOUNG GIRLS DRESS.
Some More Of M. Ruskin's Words
Of Wisdom Cleaned from His
Writings.

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ter to a good girl belonging to the
upper classes may be generally use
full:
! January. 1874
Now mind you dress always charm,
ingly; it is the first duty of a girl te
be charming, and she cannot be
charming if she is not charmingly
Edressed. -
And it is quite the first Of frsts in
the duties of girls in high position,
nowadays, to set an example Of beau
tiful dress without extravaganza
that is to say, without waste or un-
necessary tplendor. e & a \ s
| On great occasions they may be a
blaze of jewclsif they like, and can;
but only when they are part Of a
great shoN or ceremony. In their
daily life and ordinary social rela-
lions, theyought at present to dress
with marked simplicity, to put down
the curses of luxury rand waste which
are consuming Englahd.s 's~ %s's'
Women usually apologize to them
selves for their pride and vanity by
saying: "It is good for trade"
Now you may soon convince your
self, and everybody about you of the
monstrous folly of this, by very
simple piece Of definite notion.
Wear. yourself, becoming, pleas
antly varied, but simple dress, Of
the best possible material. y
What you think necessary to buy
beyond this for the good Of trade"
buy and Immediately burn.
Even your du,lest friends will see
the folly of that proceeding. You
can. then explain to them that by
wearing what they don't want lin
stead of burning il Tor the good of
trade, they are merely adding inso-
lence and vulgarity to absurdity.
DRESS FOR THE BENEFIT OF BEHOLD
When a lady walks about town
with three or four yards of silk tied
in bundle behind her, she doesn't
see it herself, or benefit by it herself.
She carries it for the benefit of be-
holders. When she has put all her
diamonds on in the evening, tell her
to stay at home and enjoy them in
radiant solitude; and the child, with
his forbidden barley sugar, will not
look more blank. She carries her
caparison either for the pleasure or
for the modification of society; and
can no more enjoy its brllliancy by
herself than a chandelier can enjoy
having its gas lighted wW g 7res
DRESS, AND TEACH OTHERS TO DRESS.
Always dress yourselves beauti-
fullyAnot finely, unless on occasion;
but then very finely and beautifully
too. Also, you are to dress as many
other people as you can; and to
teach them how to dress, if they
don't know how; and to consider
every addressed woman or child
whom you see anywhere, as a per-
sonal disgrace, and to get at them
somehow, until everybody is as
beautifully dressed as birds.
FALSE MODEoIAs
If young ladies really do not want
to be seen, they should take care not
to let their eyes flash when they dis
like what people say; and, more than
shat it is all nonsense from beginning
to end, about not wanting to be seen.
l don't know any more tiresome
flower in the borders than your es-
pecialiy " modest" snowdrOp: which
one always has to stoop down and
take all sorts of tiresome trouble
with, and nearly break its poor little
head of, before you can see it; and
then, half of it is not worth seeing.
Girls should be like daisies; nice
and white, with an edge of red, if
you look closer making the ground
bright wherever they are; knowing
simply and quietly that they do it,
and are meant to do it, and that it
would be very wrong if they didn't
do it. Not want to be seen, indeed
MA. DANA, the editor of the
New York Sun, has been looking
into the state of the crops in Europe,
and has written short letter to his
paper giving the result Of his obser-
vations. The outlook, as he repre-
sents it, is even worse than the foreign
papers had given us reason to sup
pose. Not only haye the crops Of
wheat and other grains been nearly
an entire failure through the greater
part of Western Europe, but the po-
tato crop also, which is more inpor-
tant to the sustenance Of the people
than is generally supposed, makes an
equally bad showing. and it seems
certain that Great Britain, France
and Germany will be almost wholly
dependent upon Russia and the
United States for their food during
the coming year. In both of these
countries happily, the crops are un-
usually abundant, and with the con-
tinually improving facilities for
transportation there is no danger of a
femme, or even OF such rise in the
price of breadstuffs as would have
been inevitable under like circum-
stances a few years ago. The sur
plus products Of the United States