St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22
six months of half mourning. During
the three last months

six months of half mourning. During
the three last months
ANY FANCY MATERIALS
in black can be worn. Mourning for
sisters, brothers, grandparents, etc,
lasts nine months. six of these being
deep, but less so than for nearer rela-
tives. Wooden crepon, grenadine, en-
brOidered Grape. any seaSOnable black
wooden material can be worn, trimmed
with Grape, but not extensively. Mourn
ing for a young child is less fixed by
time and rule. Little ones, even for
deep mourning, wear white, but, if old
enough to wear cOlOrs, black must re-
place the white-black without Grape,
the hat being of straw or felt, trimmed
with ribbon. After five, little girls wear
Grape trimmings for mother or father.
For underclothing there is no rule.
Some women persist in wearing black
petticOats, others prefer white. Black
petticOats are Indispensable with trained
skirts, which have to be lifted at times
in the hand
Writing paper should be pure white,
with deep black border, the mono
gram being also black. All fanciful
funeral emblems should be avoided.
Some people for half-mourning use yio-
let paper, or gray with black border, or
other atrocities, which are very incOr-
rect. When card is received ANNOUNCE
ing death, it must be answered by
letter OF coincidence if from a friend, or
by visiting card containing message
of coincidence, and left by the owner of
the card herself, avoiding sending it by
mail If possible. l want to say word
with regard to the offerings of flowers
sent TO adOrn the coffin of the dead.
The idea Of laying fresh blossoms on the
dead is beautiful one, but it is over
done. People in society vince now as
much at the notion of burial as at that
Of a bridal, for both mean an outlay. The
number of wreathS that fashionable
parsonage with an extensive circle has
to buy yearly is something alarming.
What slaves persons are to the DEGREES
of society! Especially those people on
the bOrderiand who are afraid to drop
them, ever so little. lest they should APP
pear outsiders. Yet far more happy
and respected are the outsiders of
similar rank, who live as they choose,
and do not fret themselves to death by
endeayoring to keep up in customs and
traditions with those fate has made
higher and richer than themselves,
dropping comforts and pleasures within
their means to grasp after impossible
ties. 1t is piteOus to see the coffin of
man SmOthered in expensive eXOticS
when it is known for fact that his
whole income died with bim-tlrat he
saved nothing for his family, and that
hencefOrth his widow and children are
dependent for support on the grudging
allowance OF relatives and friends, who,
perhaps, themselves need every penny
they can earn.
OTHERS THAN MOCRNERS
are we'll launched into the season of
balls, parties and other social festivities.
Gay as are the wives and daughters in
the matter of the dance, the husbands
and SONS take still wider latitude.
New York has masquerades to which
good women cannot go, but where it is
not considered so awfully bad for men
to venture. This is the reign of terror
for delinquent husbands. The various
newspapers from time to time furnish
so many anecdotes of the low-necked
balls Of the season that the yigilant wife