San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-05
WOMAN AND HOME.
TIMES WHEN JOHN IS THE VINE AND
HIS WIFE MUST BE THE OAK.


Pretty swaliows-Bid Mrs. Grundy BE
gonel-Roumanian Marriage Customs.
Suggestions tor the Home Ruler
A very observant woman of fashion and
society said the other day to the reporter;
"In time of trouble We women must be
strong. 1t is always so, When John comes
home wild eyed, his hair half pulled out and
his mustache combed up one side and down
the other; when he PAGES the floor or Hops
with his head buried in our lap, and says the
world has reached an end, that his horse
came in behind, that his cashier has skipped,
that his consulship has been given TO another
man, that his last great book has been re-
turned, that his play is failure and that he
wants to die; Of course then we must DO
strong and firm, and full of heart and cour-
age That is the time he is doing the clinging
vine business and Ne must be the oak,
But when things so well we shall best
please him, best hold him, best be sure Of
him by remembering how much the man
likes to have his chiefship, his strength, his
muscle, his manliness emphasized by depend
ence, curves, frou-frous, and femininity in
US We will bring all this out in the pretty
house gowns that have become fashionable,
won't WEI 1t is good thing for women that
fashion has of late years turned our atten-
ton TO house gowns Nowhere should a
woman look more charming than in her own
home Nowhere is she in atmosphere more
calculated to suggest about her all the charm
of femininity in its best and sweetest way,
The tea gown IS or may be a triumph for all
of US II combines the simplicity, the sug-
gestion of at home, and repose of a wrap
per without the dishabille Of that garment,
with the elegance in texture of ball gown
without the formality Of such one
"Of all modern gowns invented and accom-
plished it may best suggest the breathing
woman inside. IL makes best use OF such ma
tural curves as may be betrayed without the
support of stays, and suggests the freedom
and comfort of the whole figure without
loosenesS. There is always that awful flop
pishneSs about a woman who, without stays
on, puts herself into an ordinary modern cut
dress Let me- utter protest right here
against those unconventional women who
think themselves furthermg the cause Of
health and beauty by going without stays
and yet wearing the ordinary gown, | will
acknowledge at once that the uncorSeted fig
ure is the more graceful if properly draped
House gowns, all of them, this philosoph-
ical lady went on. and all Of their varia
tions, are on the cut Bernhardt bless her,
made popular-the cut which comes nearest
to suiting all women, all materials, and all
occasions. \ loose skirt, full and undraped
in front, may be less dressy than one punched
up and fddledeed and squirmed and sQuinted
into Cucks and folds and rosetUeS, but 1t Is the
skirt which viii most surely resolve itself
L. int.
harmonious dTaping through all movements
and positions. Such effect Of skirt Is certainly
the most suitable in house robes-gowns in
which one may look graceful in the easy chair
or on the couch-gowns that viii ching pref
tily about the feet when We lean back, that
Will fall into saving folds when we
cross one knee over the other, as
would be quite impossible and i'm
proper in our street dress-gowns in which
we can go down on the door TO get acquaint-
Ell with FlosSie and her new doll, sure that
We have sunk into a soft swirl of folds from
which, if your gown is lacy enough and pretty
enough, We may rise like Venus from the
sea,
Il am old fashioned enough 70 think wO-
man should meet her husband with a smile
when be comes home l am of the opinion
that pretty house dress will materially as
sist the smile. l have much faith in the in
ffuence of fuTbelows and femininities over
men. OF course, they like Us to look delight
fully self confident and capable on horseback
They fancy that Amazonian suggestions of
tailor made gowns, tennis rigs, fencing COS
TUNES, rowing get ups, walking outfits, shoot
ing suits and bath Authorizations; but they
like t. find the Amazon resolved, upon occa-
sious, into a slip of soft surah and foaming
lace. looking like bubble ON bowl of suds,
OF pale tinted ribbon tossed over a bunch
OF roses You will accomplish the ribbon act
best in house gown, won't yOuP-New
York sun.
The Poet Laureabe'S PecuIiaTiLies.
\ contemporary, IN alludlng TO the well
Known hatred OF publicity shown by the poet
| laureate. states that sometimes, when he has
! known MS movements are being watched by
| iuquisitiva strangers, Lord Tennyson ha.
! dressed up his head gardener in the cloak
| and teit wideawake he hahitually effects, and
| then sent his transformed servant TO walk up
! and down the garden paths, and thus induce
the eager watchers to go away after getting
| what they consider to DO a good look at ouI
| famous post. have reason 10 know, how
! ever, that this statement is apocryphal. The
! dressing up, as it happens, Is ON the other
! side, for it Is we'll known in the Isle OF Wight
/ that on more than one occasion determined
| visitors who have found their normal effort:
10 get a peep at Lord TennysOn unavailing
have actually disguised themselves as rara
! Iaborers in sgnock frock and CATERS, and con
! trived to get not only a look at, but even