The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-14

ment troops, ana some OF the SuTSNoiS
are said to have fed into Arizona prior |
to the departure of their leader for San
Francisco.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Apparel Of Grief.
DEATH knocks at the door Of the East
Side tenement and pulls the bell OF the
Fifth Avenue palace with impartial
hand but when his work has been &C
complished, very different results follow.
There are reformers who believe that
not only funerals should be very plain
and inexpensive, but that the wearing
of mourning costumes should be dis
couraged or abolished altogether. Those
who deal in the habiliments OF woe,
however, say that such sentiments do not
appear to be taking root. Women, rlch
and poor, follow the fashion OF, and the
fashions in, mourning with as much per-
sistency as they do any others. When
a member of wealthy family dies, it is
not uncommon to send an order for 3
complete outfit of mourning for each
member of the family, as well as for
each of the servants. Sometimes the
order merely describes the age and sex
of each person, and his or her relation
ship to the deceased, leaving all matters
of taste to the dealer in mourning goods.
At other times each article required is
specified with particularly, and often
some lady member of the family. an
aunt or sister of the dead person, visits
the store and attends personally to the
selection of the goods.
81 have often noticed" said dealer
in mourning goods yesterday, ''that no
matter how deep and genuine the grief
of such a customer may be, she soon
loses a sense of it when she begins to
examine goods, and displays as much
| interest in the various styles as IT she
were selecting an outfit for foreign
tour"
An order such as has been referred
to can be filled in ten hours. There are
extensive mourning goods departments
in all of the large retail dry goods
houses. but it is said that there is not
and never has been but one store in
| New York that deals exclusively IN
mourning goods. The filing OF orders
with promptness is rendered possible by
the Keeping in stock of readymade
suits capable of being altered to suit the
measurements that may be received.
Often families at a distance from New
York send for goods, and though their
faces are unknown to the dealers their
names are as familiar as the faces OF
| their New York customers. This Is
particularly the case where the family
has large kinship. Ready-made suits
in stock cost from S12.50to 500 apiece
The cost of an entire mourning outfit is
frequently as high as $3.50. Outfits fol
four ladies in one family, recently filled,
were paid for with check for Sl;4oo
A complete outfit consists OF the follow
ing articles: A suit, veil, cloak, bon
net, handkerchiefs and gloves. Cloak'
cost from S. up to 500, and bonnet
from s. up to S25.
Dresses are trimmed with Grape TO
} deep mourning, and sometimes tn
, dress itself is made of Grape. Even out
: side garments such as sacques and dol
, mans are made of Grape. They ar
: usually made of the same material
, the dress is made of. There has bee
no decided change in styles since las
: wear. The shapes Of mourning bonnet
: have followed the shapes of bonnets i
e colors. The trimmings are the same i
: style as they were last year. Lon
/, crane wells are worn a great deal. The
Q vary in length according to the depth G
d the mourning. Though some ladies' OF
gin to tighten their mourning after I'd
lapse of one year, it is considered tn
d proper thing, dealers say, to wear dee
mourning two years before the lighter
ing process is begun.
# The family must be poor indeed who's
r. female members do not 90 into SON
p degree of mourning after death has ell
j. tered. The ordinary recourse Is to DO
n row mourning clothes for the funera
!, In large number of cases the faml
, has some branch that is better to &
If than itself. On such relatives. no ma
d ter what quarrels have kept them avs
is before. the duty is paramount to Ter
If mourning goods for the funeral. Ii Il
rs dresses can not be obtained in this W:
he there is a good chance that some OF Il
er neighbors will accommodate'them.
r. death, like birth, affords an occasl'
Is when women put aside neighborly qua
ID rels, and proffer of mourning g
le ments is often made by personal en-
is INV. The styles of these garments
IS such as they may happen to be. AIT
n the funeral the clothes are returned, o
IN thew are in many eases borrowed aga
Il for special occasions, as, for examp
of when the mourners attend church FOL
as sunday or two after the funeral.
n, time goes by and new clothing is to
m purchased black is chosen instead
a colors. Black is durable, and thereto
he CHEAP. Poor women of middle age,
ny past it, often continue to wear BLACK
He yond the time of mourning for econo
ms zeal reasons.-N. Y. Sun.
he
ed A Husband Secreted for Nearly 1
he Years.