The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-19

Mrs. b. wears a green velvet basque
burst out under the arms and below the ell
bows, with half its buttons lost. Ii Is GER
tainly not proper garment TO wear while
| broiling steak or roasting meat. Neither
was it made large enough so that the
worker could move with ease In lifting
either I'D or down. The kitchen is evil
IDENTIFY not the place for it. She utilities an
old sham skirt that was made to be worn
with long polonaise so tnat it has dress
material only in a small rutfle at the bot
tom and few inches above 1t with an
elaborate front, dirty and in tatters. The
polonaise is never worn with 1t now.
Sometimes the costume Is blue cloth
basque, once a beautiful garment worn for
evenings at home. 1t is hideous with spots
and dirt generously distributed over its sur
face Its old amirers can scarcely recog-
nize it. A handsome and expensive set OF
buttons that were carelessly sewerd on have
all been lost except four or five.
When woman chooses to array herself
thus she astonishes the natives, while
strangers are at loss to know whether she
is mistress or maid.
What an ENJOYABLE time the husband and
children of Mrs. A. must have looking at
such a spectacle! the children getting it for
| a memory-picture to hold forever, and the
husband comparing it with the picture he
| always saw in the afternoons and evenings
before he was married. If time that had
been wasted in over adornment before mar
| riage had been saved for after marriage, the
| general average would have been very
| much better. Is would certainly have added
| both to the appearance and happiness of
| the home
| How can women be so reckless of what is
| a part of their best capital in making home
| pleasant for their husband and children
| 1t is worth while to dress to help to WIN
| the husband. and why is it not worth Will
to dress to keen hlm2
A girl at seventeen married an only son.
! She had always been accustomed to dress
| her hair in a becoming way and to put on
different dress for The afternoon. Her
! hair was in trimming pins until The after
| noon. but was combed, brushed and put up.
| SIZE always dressed neatly. She never did
and never needed to apologize for her APP
pearance in the forenoon while in her work
! ing clothes. She said in all the years of
| her married life-and she has grandchildren
that she has never neglected to dress her
| hair, executing during serious illness. For
two wears she lived on the western plains
| where She met no one for weeks, vet the re
was not an afternoon when she did not look
| her best for her husband and child en-.
S had six children. did her own work
and Las IL, arly all er life had some of her
husbands relatives to care for. Often it is
| four O'Clock before she can out on her after
noon dress. but it is put on. Her hu band
paws her all the attentions which women
hold SO dear and VIII CHI many husbands ana
wives do not know how to keep for year
evon. There are many little things which
are good steady Investments, if we may
call them that. though they have nothing
to do with dollars aud cents but they do
have to do with that which is of more
value.
1t is these little things which the mother
docs. and that her daughters learn from
| her example, which make their homes,
lust as it is the neglect of these things
which mars many home either to a separ-
alton Of its founders or to one of lifelong
misery. Ore would think sometimes that
there was but one day left for work, and il
was absolutely necessary that it sh uld be
done with as much hurry as possible, vet
WHEN night comes the tired worker is sur
prised at the little that has been accom-
| phshed.
No woman can respect herself when she
appears at such disadvantage. She is
cross because OF slack habits. bu1 is the last
to acknowledge it and to reform. They
are not themselves who are forced to NEE
visitors when they are looking their worst
| What might have been a very pleasant cal
| from a lady is aIways ramembered bv he,