Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-01

warm than in cold weather. 1t is the simplest
olcGste enS OF common sense, therefore, TO avoid
In our dress, and to simplify it in such
way that we can preserve serenity of mind
as well as neatness and refinement Of appea
ance.
A silk dress Is rather a trouble than other
wise In summer, especially if it is heavy and
OF elaborate make, but couple of white lin
en- and several fine cotton dresses made short
and without anY fussy looping and punching.
will make the summer JOY and prove equal
to any emergency.
The choice of underwear is a great element
in the GOODNESS and daintiness of summer dress
square cut and neatly made combination gar.
ments of thin but not very fine batste are
best for workers who canpot afford linen.
lawn and cambria. AS for Silk, they should
only be worn occasionally even by the rich, in
summer, as they will not look we'll or remain
soft after many washings, and cleanliness in
hot weather requires frequent changes A
gauze shirt of wool or India silk is recommend
ed under the combination garment for COM
fort health, neatness and the preservation of
outer clothing IL does not add perceptibly to
warmth. it can be changed often. and it alb
serbs that unpleasant moisture which in the
case OF stout women so often makes dreadful
havoc with clothes.
1t is noticeable that ladies who make a great
display on occasions during warm weather, are
apt to be slovenly in the intervals: they keen
up the pressure all the time, and they alter
nate between dragging about long train and
displaying before the gaze of the multitude a
TO highly embroidered hose and lounging in
tangled hair. sack and short skirt for the bene-
tit of whoever has the right to share their
privacy. There is no delicacy, no innate
refinement in habit of this kind.
Those who make heat and cold an
excuse for untidiness will never want for one.
and the occasional effort to be fine does not
atone for habiu failure to preserve those
excellent attributes. neatness and order,
Ladies, so-called that is those women who are
not responsible for their own support. may
some of them find something to copy in those
they have looked upon as socially their in
feriors. the higher working women whom the
last quarter of a century has developed
KNOWLEDGE THE BASIS OF REFINEMENT
The truest refinement in clothes which have
found is among the young modern working
women Of the superior class, particularly the
genuine art workers. Now do not let any ore
imagine that by art-worker mean every girl
who daubs what she considers flowers or other
impossible objects on wood or pottery and
neglects neatnees and order and personal
domestic aud social duties for what she is
pleased to call art" When call q thing kV
its name it must be understood to be the real
thing and not the pretence of it,
This being understood, l repeat the asser-
tion made 10 the beginning-amoBg no other
class with which am acquainted is there so
much real refinement in clothes as among the
art W orkerS. Their sense is fine and true to
begin with, and they cultivate form and color
so closely that they must approximate more
nearly than others to the perfection of dress
within some times very narrow limits Not
that they beStow much thought upon it: the
result is achieved rather by the getting rid of
what is superfluous than the acquisition of
what is pretty" and by the innate sense of
fitness, aided by cultivated knowledge of
what is true and best in form and color
Women are supposed 70 be good judges of
color, and SO they are compared with men;
but it is astonishing to what nicely this faculty
can be developed, and what pleasure
it is capable of giving. 1t is very
common to object to the modern art ideas in |
regard to color as faded and false, and not to
be found in nature. But very few have anv
idea of what colors really are in nature The |
teacher of a class of girls recently asked them
to give her n specimen OF what they would |
call grass green, wi hout comparing it with !
grass. Nearly all brought a bright metallic
shade Of green. beside which the grass pro
duced by the teacher looked dark and dull |
The reason why we are so apt to be deceived in |
regard to natural colors il because we see |
them in a strong light, usually with the sun |
shining upon them, and clothing them with a |
sort of radiance The glow may be put into |
painting, because in painting the sunlight the |
effects are legitimate. But colors used for |
clothing follow the same law, or should. that |
is applied to art needie-work. Ihey should be |
free from glare, and copy nature in shadew
rather than nature in her more glowing and |
opulent moods; for these should be reserved |
to be eX pressed by the woman.