Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-20
CLARA BELLE.
Advice Concerning a Fashionable Girls
Health.
Notes About Dressing and Gossip About the
Winter Fashions.

Winter Fashions.
Cincinnati. January l5.--The last OF
/ Clara Relies letters to the Enquirer Is
as follows; NV friend Laura found
! h uleasnnt 10 be thin and pale, because
she N not striklngly beautiful, and In
/ appenrnuce was slowly fading away,
! ike broken lily. Thus she created
an interest that she could not other
wise have enjoyed. Laura IL dear,
GOOD pirl, and point out this weakness
| solely because mean to make
| her case an illustration OF some
things that my readers ought to know.
| When she found that her etherealness
! was likely TO xii. her, she made up her
mind that she was kind OF lily that
! prefetred to have her stalk strength
ened up, 80 that she might bloom
awhile longer. Therefore she con
sented TO 90 with me to my physician;
He Is n plainspOken old fellow, ana
when explained that Laura was not
really sick, but only u drooper, a die
away. a languisher, he held her band
up between his eyes and the hght ana
said: "There il no flesh ana blood
there--only skin and bone. She lacks
vitality" Then he was informed, IN
answer to his questions, that she qua
not keep late hours, nor live cXciu-
sively on caramels, nor lace tightly,
nor commit any other of the female
! sins against health.
| "The fact Is, y said the doctor, that
| tight lacing il very rarely carried on
| to an injurious extent nowadays, ana
! late hours by women are usually tol-
! lowed by plenty of sleep in the day
time. The worst thing that fashionable
women do as rule, Is in the changing
from warm covering TO nakedness.
You 30 about all day enveloped III q
sealskin sacque, which keeps you IN u
| Turkish bath, opening every pore III
your body, and then at night you go
10 "a ball or party with your arms ana
part of your body bare. Colds are
bound to follow
Laura protested that she never wore
decollete dresses, and the doctor might
have guessed rs much by her scrawni-
ness, If he had used any sense outside
Of the medical line.
CHOW do you sleep?p he asked.
"Splendidly," she replied, mine or
ten hours without dream; but when
awake | have dreadful headache
"What Is your bedroom like"
had SEN this prettiest of imagina-
BILE nests, and | Clipped in with a de-
Wription of IL. Nothing could he
wrong about the ventilation, de
cared for the windows were high and
broad and were left open over night.
The bedstead was carved all over IN
solid rosewood the mattress was flied
with freshly curlcd-hair and rested on
springs the linen was of the whitest
and finest; the blankets were gift
from California, where the sottcst aud
warmest are made. The recollections
of the down pillows threw me into
RApTuRous PRAISE
OF the undressed silk of which their
coverings were made, and their clab
crate embroidery. The edges were
finished with fine silk cord, carefully
avoiding anything that would Keel
the cushion in shape, for 1t was cX
pectCd to yield and expand to every
movement of the head. They wer,
little more than halfa yard square
aud covered with Indian silk of
crushed strawberry tint, on which
were scattered designs in neatl.
worked darning stitches, taken clos
together, and the
"Hold on" iuterposed the doctor
"you are not writing u fashion lette
just now, Have you ever seen Laur
asleep in this wonderfully beautiful
hed?"
"Yes, only yesterday morning"
"Where was her nosc?n
''I,et me see. Oh, yes; 1t was undo
; the Blankets
81 always sleep that way sal,
1 NArla |
into bed, and it stays so all night
probably that causes all the trou
= ble.n said the doctor. "Iou manag
TO ventlatc your room properly an
then manage to breathe vitiated air fo
eight or ten hours every night. Sto
It. Sleep with your head uncovere
.or week and then let me know no,
: YOU feel. y
she followed his advice, and at tn
end of the week felt iirst-rate.
THE MINDS AND PURSES
of orr fashionable women are at pres
. ent devoted 10 the construction {
, evening toilets, for tho season OF ball
! ard receptions are now Mt hand. TIL
{ range from the gorgeous CONNECTION
sent out from Paris, composed of OF
+ toman, silks, pushes and oriental bro
n cades, gauzes, ana those copied tlol
i these and improved upon by our Ne'
i York drcss-mallers,t TO the simple toilet
OF the fine light-cQlored cashmere an
a veillngs in evening shades, such 8
, peliwiakle, pale rose, flax gray, hell,
! trope and pale, electric blue. DinnC
!, toilets are moro difficult to oompos
than ball dresses. They are som,
/. thing between the visiting costunl
and the full evening dress. The
i should be of medium elegance, ncithe
/ too dressy nor too little. Few jewe
3 should be worn, but flowers are u
q lowed; pretty couture, hal
Q open bodice with u good deal of lac
about il, sleeves short 10 the elbow;
dress of some rich silk of dark or M,
! dium shade, long, but not very tigh
:, unglazed kid gloves and n fan f,
:, smooth feathers. or else of paintc
: silk with mounting of light tortois,
: shell, pearl or ivory. This fam shout
y be OF moderate size; the immense IA
= is suitable only for the theatre or bal
- room. Shoes and stockings should b,
:" IL not exactly mat 1heu to IL nj lpnSt Il