Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-18


into regular old-fashioned, forty knot
snooze that does HIM power of good,
tell you.
ECONOMY IN DRESS.
Small Money Outlay Costumes Equal TO
Those Of Worth Obtained With a Little
Skill and TGct--The Best articles il.rauy
the Cheapest ne the End.
Philadelphia Press.
1t is mistake to suppose that the women
who spend most on dress are those who
think most of it. The human lilies
who toll not" and who need only wish
in order to have, leave the burden of
planning as we'll as execution to
their dressmaker; it is the woman who
must maintain decent appearance on
small allowance, and by taste and ingenui-
ty make one dollar do the work of five
who gives her whole mind 10 the subject
She it is who studies the sh'rrs AMI pleat-
ings of her neighbours costume from
Worth, over the edge of her prayer book,
while apparently absorbed in her prayers.
and lies awake into the small hours con-
irving how to make over her old silk so
that 1t shall pass muster among the stylish
new toilets of her weather. friends.
Fortunately taste and ingenuity can do
great deal, but they must have some ma
terial wherewith to work. The woman who
dresses, not handsomely, that is impossi-
bile. but we'll on small allowance, must be
genius in her way. She must make her
dresses with, at most, the occasional aid of
dressmaker at So a day; must do her
own embrOideries, trim her own bonnets,
have!an artists eye for color, and French
woman's knack at picturesque combina-
tions; in short, she must be able to make
the most of all she has, however little it
may be.
In the first place every purchase, no
matter how trifiing, must be made with
reference to future as well as present use.
Her best dress for this winter, for in
stance, must be such that it will make over
advantageously next year for second best,
and the year after do for afternoon wear
at home. Conspicuous colors, no viewer
tempting, unless indeed they be wonder
fully becoming, must be avoided if she
would not be known by her dress.
Black and neutral shades are her
safest choice, and the material should
be as good as she can possibly afford. THE
destruction of the poor is his poverty"
and there is such thing as being too poor
to be economical, paradoxical as the state
ment may seem; that is, one may be
forced tie buy an inferior article, for lack
OF the money necessary to purchase good
one. Still it is far better to have but one
suit season and have that handsome titan
to buy half dozen cheap suits with the
same money, unless, indeed. in summer.
when variety Of light ana airy toilets are
to be preferred to one rich dress.
ADVANTAGES OF REAL LACE.
Real lace is an investment, and with care
will last lifetime. Take real Spanish
fichu, for example; with little ingenuity
it is scarf, mantle for outdoor wear, a
fichu for evening dress, or, arranged over
silk-covered bonnet frame with a spray
of flowers, an elegant evening bonnet.
Handsome lace never goes out of fashion,
and when worn can always be renovated.
On the other hand, money spent for cheap
cotton limitations is worse than
thrown await spoils any tot
let, for no lady with any
pretensions to taste ever wears cheap fine
ry. A narrow linen collar is always in
better taste than cotton lace, while crepe
at the moment, is appropriate with the
richest dress. Crepe isse, though, is ex-
pensive, because so often requiring renew
al, so that real lace, in spite of the first
cost, is much more economical in the long
run. 1t is good plan to buy cheap tarle-
tame ruches, and haste them inside the
crepe isse, low enough down not to show.
Thus placed, they protect the crepe lisse
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soiled by contact with the skin. What has
been said about imitation Gotten laces in
no wise applies to pretty machine-made
thread laces which have of late years be-
come the refuge of those who have refined
tastes, but cannot afford to indulge them.
Ostrich feathers, also, may be counted as
an investment, since they are always in
fashion, and when on hand reduce the cost
of a new bonnet considerably. So, too,
with handsome cut jet or fine pearl but
tons; costing more perhaps, at first, they
practically last forever, and may be used
again and again, while passamenterie and
silk buttons seldom wear as long as the
dress for which they were originally
bought.
INGENUITY L! GLOVES.
TIE question of gloves is difficult one
for the practical economist in dress. To
be we'll gloved is absolutely necessary to a
good appearance, and even with the great
est care kid gloves soon grow shabby.
Cheap gloves are apt to prove snare and
delusion, and when these are used it is we'll
to find some place where they keep make
| that is to be relied upon, and buy always
at that one place. It is a clever expedient
to take the long tops of gloves, the fingers
of which are past wearing, and match
them in two or three-button gloves, which
being out of fashion. may be bought very
cheap, and to which the tops may be easily
sewed, the joint being hidden under a
bracelet, when the gloves are worn.
In taking off gloves they should never
be pulled by the ends of the fingers. In
stead turn the top of the glove down over
the hand and take hold of the fingers
through the kid. By this means the fingers
will not be rubbed in taking off. When
purchasing a pair of gloves match the
color in five-cent spool of fine sewing
silk and mend each tiny rip as it appears