The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-07-05
WAsHNeToN G., THURSDAY JUDY 1888

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with your soldier boys around their Camp-fires as
we Eastern sisters do. Make yourselves necessary
to their happiness, hunting poor fellow up
who has no one TO look out for him. and see how
long ii viii be before your husbands will not think
of leaving you behind, expect you to take back
seat
We are about to start woman's Relief Corps,
only waiting until after the yearly convention to
be organized. We have held meetings for some
time of US coming six eight miles to do
Some whose husbands thought both could not leave
home at the same time now take great pains to
bring their wives, and enjoy doing so.
start Relief Corps, as you have right to do,
and see the good resulting from it as YOU surely
will. The Post Will soon learn that they need your
help in many ways. Do SO. and predict you win
have no more cause for complaint If Soldiers
Wives of Pennsylvania would like to know how
soldiers wives in little back-woods town of
Maine started Corps under difficulties, and are
now ready to be put III working order, with funds
enough to pay all expenses, may be tempted to
tell them if the editor of THE TRIBUNE thinks this
worthy OF notice. FROM a SOLDIERS WIFE.
o. S. AND s. o. HOME SCHOOLS
Mrs. General Charles w. Hill, teacher in
the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home
at Aenia, Ohio, comes with an interesting out
line of the graduating exercises of the class of
1883 of that noble institution, where more than
six hundred boys and girls of our brave vet
Grams are receiving the foundation of useful
knowledge, provided by a grateful and patriotic
SoidtS. Lie CnliuTe0 are ulVlueu up llb0 Idtl-
lies in the pleasant little cottages, and Mrs.
Hill pictures the happy and beautiful sight
when all assemble together, as they sometimes
do, to enjoy a National or Christmas holiday
The motto of the class of 'S3 is a very appro-
pirate one: "rhere is no darkness but igno-
rance" The programme included vocal music
by the school, essays, orations and recitations.
Graduation exercises came off on the evening
of June 26th, General Charles III. Grosvenor, of
Ohm PnDferriDu tha dinlotnas Wa ohcarya
that the girls carry off the honors, Dorcas
Druzella Graham receiving the salutatory,
Elizabeth Estella Martin the English essay
and Leona Hitesman the vaiedictory. All who
love and honor the memory of the Union
soldier viii ever pray that these dear children
may become noble, heroic, and useful women,
as they certainly promise to do.
woMAN's HEART BROKEN
A very pitiful story comes to us of wife
dying, shattered in her intellect through the
SORROWS and trials visited upon her by a
drunken husband, and of the broken
aged parents and two little motherless child
ren left behind. Perhaps THE TRIBUNE circle
may find prolific subject for discussion in a
case which, even in its worst phases, is by no
means rare in this great country of ours. 1t
may be truly said that i'll the Intoxicating cup
turks a demon that, once aroused, is never
satiated until he has devoured husbands and
wives and little ones to appease his ravenous
appetite The story comes with the following
request:
Do not drop the subject of home failures and
heart failures until you have shown the readers of
THE TRIBUNE how liquor and Righteousness drives
happiness out of the world. Such sad affair has
occurred in our vicinity lately After sitting up
night after night for ten twelve years to wait for
and uneompainingly care for drunken husband
the wife was stricken with insanity few months
ago, and last week we laid her down to a long un-
broken nntr0ulPd a az arS' cfDr-
rowing the effects of liquor did the work
Two bright children were left motherless.n
WILL COME ANOTHER TIME.
BANGOR, ME-, June Is, 1888
DEAR MEs. SHERWOOD: We have in connection
with the @. A r. Post of this CITY Womans Re
lief Corps that is widely known for it's spirit of
patriotism and loyalty, and with all for its ready
sympathy and beneyolence III all cases of suffering
and distress Doubtless ut no distant day you will
have the information you desire from some one of
its able and efficient officers.
appreciate very much the welcome have
ceiyed at the Experience Meeting, and it may be
viii visit you again.
Yours, truly, SOLDIERS WIFE
Once more we would urge the women of the
Union to organize and earnestly ask the veter-
ans of the Grand Army to call them together
and render them aid and assistance. Their
societies once formed, there is no fear but they
will run themselves, and efficiently, too. In
this connection we reprint the following beau
tiful extract from the appeal of the Massachu-
setts Relief Corps:
More than twenty years have passed since the
brave boys who wore the blue" marched away
from home, and all they held SO dear, to defend
their country honor. Thousands of lonely graves
far from homes they loved well, Tell of
widows and orphan children needing the care and
support thus taken from them. Men who returned
to enjoy the peace and honor richly earned to-
dry need our care. The seeds of disease sown on
Southeran soil have rpened fast; painful wounds
too plainly tell the story of heroic sufferinps
which raDldly filing alI Ter ias
with soldiers graves. Women of Massachusetts,
we cordially invite you to unite with us in the
sacred duty of caring for the helpless and needy
ones left by them.
STYLES AND coLoRs.
A Missouri girl writes to know what are the
principal rules TO follow in the present styles
of dress making Also whether high colors are
much worn on the street. Aiso how to make
an inexpensive white dress of common MULE
To the first question we would answer that
the most notable change over past styles is in
the high shoulders and tight sleeves. The
shoulder seams, formerly SO long, are now made
short enough for the elbow to start from where
the arm begins 10 round at the top, and thence
the sleeve fits so snugly that it is often neces-
sary to turn it wrong SIDE out every time the
dress is taken off, This style requires the top
OF the sleeve to be very wide, much rounded up at
the top and gathered at the elbow while the
under position is narrow and cut TO fit the arm
hole without a wrinkle. The bodice must also
fit the figure closely, and neither bodice nor
sleeves are trimmed, except with fancy braiding
or fiat bands of velvet ribbon.
The skirts are not as much gored as formerly,
and are Of medium width, to allow tuckiug and
iounces to be used s9as to hang gracefully
Oyer-skirts when worn are generally long in
the back, some of them hanging plain to the
bottom of the under skirt, box pleated at the
back. In front they are short caught up at
the sides, so as to form easy folds or the sides
stand out, pannier style The present styles
are very accommodating in this respect. They
allow every woman to wear what is most be-
coming in drapery, it being the rule of the
tasteful m0diste to drape the skirt of the stout
woman so as to give her the appearance of be-
ing smaller, and of the thin woman SO as to
make he proportions more ample and rounded.
As to high colors on the street, that is also a
matter of taste, though happily there is reac-
tion from the omber black once the favorite
street fabric. Certainly high colors are more
worn than for years, but not so much the solid
high colors as the new and qnieter shades, of
which we have spoken before in the columns
of TIE TRIBUNE. There is, happily, less mix
ing of colorS than formerly, the best prevailing
style being of one color or shade through hat,
dress and gloves. Young ladies and misses are
allowed wider range in the selection OF
colors than older ladies, good taste combining
the latter to the more subdued shades. Old
ladies should never wear high colors, which
are only in keeping with youth and freshness.
To the third question, we would reply, make a
tight-fitting, round waist and close fitting
sleeves for your white muslin dress with a