The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-12-16
CARE OF CLOTHING.

"o'i t'io hoOP 1uoii CiotHiHS Is az
marked as the difference in the indiyid-
uals themselves. One lady will always
look neatly and elegantly attired in
even the simplest costume. She will
wear the same suit for successive
seasons and not seem out of date OF
stale. Another will as invariably look
negligently and Enthusiastically dressed,
no matter how costly her clothes NAV
be or how fashionable the style of their
make. And one seasons wear will
make necessary fresh outfit. Clothes
have way, almost as though they had
sense and volition, of adopting at once
the style and bearing of the wearer.
They grow to look just like him. If he
is erect, fastidious, exact, careful, neat,
his apparel will assume the same quail
ties. If he is stoop-shouldered, shamb-
ling in his gait, careless in his bearing,
slovenly in his habits, their lives not
the tailor that could clothe him so as
to conceal these idiosyncracies. The
clothes do not so much transfgure the
person as the person trans6gures the
clothes. Hence those who would ap-
pear well dressed, stylish, elegant,
graceful. must begin on themselves
and be themselves what they would
seem.
Clothing is the ornamentation of the
casket containing the Jewell Through
the casket and its setting the intrinsic
quality of the jewel ever shines forth.
Nothing can prevent that. The bear
ing of the individual, the look out of
his eyes, the expression on his face,
the tones of his voic ,, inform the acute
observer at once whether the wearer
OF his clothes is to be held in highest
respect.
Apparel should be suited to the age,
temperament, character, circumstances
and station in life of the wearer. 1t
should be the natural expression and
outcome of the individual and his set
ting in life. Within these limits there
is abundant opportunity for the exer-
else of the utmost refinement of TASTE
1t can not be considered hardship that
a woman whose husband can earn only
two dollars day should never in all
her life have a velvet dress or even
silk one. The hardship would be in
having fine dress with none of those
accompaniment that expensive dresses
demand. In dress the suitable is the
becoming and the pleasing.
The secret of keeping new dress
nice and prolonging its life is to keep
it new as long as possible. A lady from
the city visiting the mountains found in
the family where she boarded pretty
orphan girl assisting with the house
work. The girl was very cheaply and
shabby dressed, and the lady pur-
chased and made up for her IN a most
becoming fashion neat print. The
girl appeared in it at the supper table
one evening and was complimented on
her pleasing appearance. She appeared
also in it next morning at the breakfast
table. having worn it down through the
dew to the barnyard, where she MIXED
the COWS. No laundry process could
ever restore the freshness and newness
of that dress. In wide contrast to this
young girl, who unfortunately had
never been taught how to take care of
her clothes, was the mother of large
family who wore calico dress all
winter and in the spring it still did not
need washing save the sleeves. Aprons,
end old dresses for dirty
work, preserved her ''ninepenny
calico" for months as fresh as new.
The same lady wore an ashes of-roses
silk year after year on dress occasions,
yet never got spot on it. She didn't
wear it while doing housework, OF
course. She didn't trail it through the
dust and mud or dirty streets. She
didn't throw it across chair or down
in corner when she took it off, but
hung it upon its own proper hook in
the clothes-press. She didn't lie down
IN it to take nap, and get it full of
A whisk, a clothes brush, sponge.
\ common nail brush and bottle of |
are indispensable aids in car
ing for ones clothes. The time to |
brush and sponge them is when they |
are taken off rather than Just before |
hey are put on. If dust or dirt is left |
On them it settles into the fabric and |
inds home there. Germs and funo- |
ous growths seek it out and utilize it. |
More dust and rt join it. Every spot.
stain. sminch of any kind, should be |
OhlofOu do oOoiI do pOoslDic anu NOJ DC |
eft till companion comes to stay with
t. What the whisk and brush fail to |
'emove the sponge or roll of listing
nay be applied to. Obdurate spots
will yield to the nail brush dipped in
water or in the following
mixture: Equal parts by measure OF
alcohol, ether and ammonia. Keep
he mixture tightly corked when not in
Use, as it is very volatile. This is good |
or all kinds of black goods, but should
,e tried on a bit of the colored garment
feeding cleansing to see that it does
lot start the color.
Shawls and wraps may be preserved
resh for long time if when taken of |
hey are folded in their original folds
when new, and laid away where they
WON'T be rumpled. Gloves when re-
moved from the hands should be
Enlightened out one finger at time
md put in glove box or case, folded
ogether as when bought. Thus cared
or they will not be likely to gather
lamp or mould, or to become spotted, |
md will keep their shape.
Better than any of the shoe polishes
n liquid form that we have tried is
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