The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-12-27
LOYAL W0MAN'S WORK
A Happy New Year = Dress for
Women---Relief Corps Notes.
CONDUCTED By Kate b. shermood.l

us. There is no escape; we must face the
music and march to the mighty measures
whether it be the pean of triumph or the
dirge of defeat.
A happy New Year But how shall we meet
it Shall we go with hopeful, happy hearts to
the possession of our new inheritance; or
shall we creep over the borders like reprobates
into heritage whose richness we ill-deserye2
a skadowy boundary, it may be, that divides
the years, but IL is the starting point upon the
race-course, each year a jot upon the record by
which our lives must be known and read. 1t
the past has been a glorious past. take on new
perseverance for the coming days. If it has
been one of hating, stumbling, and defeat,
rally once more and go on.
A happy New Year! And for each and all
| the kindiing of loftier purpose more ear
nest hope, kindlier deeds, and better life.
TURN OVER NEW LEAF.
[Bg Kote BroscnGce Shertcood
The last page you've written is erumpled and
blurred,
The prints of soiled fingers are plain;
Your letters msshapeD your syilabIes blurred
show the copy followed IN vain;
But pray do not lit disconsolafe face,
Or yield to a profitless grief
But gather fresh courage, look pain in the face
Turn Ger q new Leaf
How shining and bright How spotless and pure
t4ow plain Is the copy TO view
Now steady and slow as you start you are sure
The rest of your task to pursue!
The Master stands near! he viii come at your
call,
| If perchancc you may need his relief!
| Ills voice IL is speaking TO one and to aili
- Turn O er new leafi''
WHAT EVERY WOMAN SHOULD HAVE.
To be neatly and appropriately dressed
/ should be the aim OF every woman. This
neither implies vanity nor extravaganza but a
/ proper regard for the proprieties OF life.
/ To dress well on the least cost should, in
deed, be study, since every dollar saved from
the things that perish may be better invested
in books and pictures and furnishings that but
improve with their wearing.
TO dress well one must consider the time, the
place, the occasion. To dress gaily at q funeral
! is in as bad taste as it would be TO appear in
full mourning at wedding. Quiet dressing,
not necessarily black, is required at the former,
/ while at the latter, even those who wear moth
ing but black ordinarily, should wear some
white blonde or isse a. the throat, Or, at least,
! 8 Bit of lavender.
1t is very bad taste to wear old fnery in the
| morning. A neat muslin dress or one of plain
/ Wo0en, with fresh, white apron, always IS
/ becoming and pleasant to behold. Avoid the
/ taWdgy and mussy, whatever the occasion.
Every woman should have at least one best
dress, 70 be worn on special occasions. If she
| have but one-and 1t is never wiset0 have many,
as they get out Of style quickly--it should
| never be worn about the house. II worn TO
4 church. or to a little company, it should be
| changed at once upon returning home. Shake
out the dust and hang carefully away until the
| next time. Do not omit this, as there is always
something to do about the house by which it
| may get spotted, and even the wearing viii
make it matted and shiny. A good dress viii
| last long time and look fresh and neat II taken
care of.
Every woman should have a good supply of
aprons. They may be made in various styles
| to suit the occupation. There is the large
giBgham apron, buttoning around tho neck,
| with gored skirt that covers the entire dress,
Indispensable in sweeping and dusting, and
many varieties of white aprons, tastefully trim
med with lace, embroidery, Or handmade edg-
| ings.
Neat-ftting gloves and shoes are essential to
| the plainest toilet. No woman is excusable for
wearing gloves out at the fingers, or shoes run
over at the heels, or red aud scaly. A stitch in
time and the use Of polishing brush will keep
both HANDS and feet presentable at moderate
expense.
| A good supply of handkerchiefs everyone
should have. Those who are handy with the
needle may buy their own linen and hemstitch
their fine handkerchiefs in very little time.
Then, there is large variety Of fine muslin
handkerchiefs, with pretty borders, to be had at
reasonable prices, aud which viii retain their
colors II carefully washed.
Plenty OF collars aud cuffs fehus and ties,
viii be found most desirable. With these the
most meager wardrobe may seem full and am
pie. A dark dress or two, with fresh lingerie,
viii carry many a woman with slim purse
through entire season with satisfaction to
herself and her friends
FAMILY BEADING CIRCLE.
A correspondent, who is starting library,
wants 10 know how TO select a course of
family reading that Will enlist the interest OF
nj
collection of books. He approves of the Ameri-
can course for those who have plenty of money,
but as he expects TO accumulate slowly, he
wants to buy but two books each month IN the
year, and desires wider range than ifhe should
eonfne his reading to American authors alone.
He wants the course confined to history, tray
! els good fiction, and little poetry. He does
not want any large and expensive works, but
handy-volume series that can be read aloud
in chapters to the family, or can be passed
around to each member separately. Now, this
is TO the point, and we, therefore, at the risk OF
leaving out hundreds Of works Of perhaps equal
value, commend the following:
MISCELLANEOUS COURSE.
: january -Hieginsons History of the United
States, Irving's sketch hook.
February Cooper's Spy, Longfellow's Evan
geline.
Narch-Bayard Taylor's Views Afoot, Dick.
Apri-Taine's Notes On England Haw-
2 thorne's Scarlet Letter.
5 May-Hiliards Six Months in Italy, Oliver
: Wendell Holmes Autocrat at the Breakfast
Table.
.June-Bulwer's Last Days of Pompeii, Edwin
Arnold's Light of Asia.
July-Ellen Palmer's Heroes of Ancien'
Greece, SCOTS Heart of Midlothian.
r August-Brsce's Home-Life in Germany
! Whittier's Snow Bound.
September-Mrs. Botta's Hand Book of Uni
versal Literature Warmers Backlog Studies
October Morleys Sketches of Russian Life
William Norris Life and Death of Janson lpo
etry).
T November Mrs Charees' Diary of Kitty
Trevelyan thine of Wesley and Whitefcld)
: | Tennyson's Enoeh Arden.
= December - Guizot's Concise History O
= France, Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.
; OF course, some persons read much more rap
J idly than others, and some again can speBc
= more money on books than their less-favoret
companions. N3ut one and all will find tn,
general outline given highly advantageous
:. Another week will be enumerated some of tn,
S most desirable books additional in history
q travel, fiction and poetry.
Every one contemplating the forming of
g good library should, besides the Bible, diction
d ary, atlas and cyc)opgdia, have copy of Bart
h let's Familiar Quotations, Smiths Bible Die
u tionary, Roget's Thesaurus of English Words
: History of the United States, and copy
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