Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-08
SHIRLEY DARES LETTER.
That Dress which is the Most Becoming
the Most Stylish-YacatiOn Dresses.
VuIgarity Of the Average Summer Hosiery
Well Dressed Brutes Who Quarrel with
the Food They Eat
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As far as supreme satisfaction goes IN
this world experience proves it may be !
found on a sea-girt island, half an hour
from the rest Of the world, where a pic
tu~esaue, weu-kept hotel las miles Of
ramble to itself. 1 shall not tell the
name of the island, faced in the cliff,
walled from the east with evergreen, and
fragrant with the breath of surf and bal
sam pine. Such wine needs no bush.
The house is kept to English taste, anu
being on its own domain makes lis own
rules You can wear yachting SUIT OF
g Tuxedo dress for fortnight II you
like, without offending. The conAo-
6ore : daughter has worn her plain navy
blue boating suit, Cowes gown 10 De
gin. for the last ten days, and so mas
the Young Southern heiress Of the
Amelie Rives type, but quIeter;
and the leading actress, born
granddaughter Of an Episcopal dlgnl-
rarv. and a kin to half a dozen Of the
best names in the really best American
society. spending the summer Win heF
exclusive and patTician family, VINO
never allow the theateT mentioned IN
tbeir. presence. The second rate people
and the middle aged ladies do the Dress
Ing for the community. The beauties
ana the bel esprits leave their trunks nun
of gowns Unpacked, and one begins 10
believe a yachting dress Of dead blue, or
white relief of dark RED or Whlte I-nes
at wrist and collar, the most becoming
dress in the world, which II IS TO goou
figure and complexion.
After seeing a far woman IN the dress
which most suits her, you no more WISH
to see her in any other than to see an oTl-
ole in pink, or q robin IN parrot green
When women learn the art Of dress they
will need much less IN the way OF Quilt
ting than they do nova change Win
the seasons, that is all. 1t is your cheap,
pronounced, ill-chOsen gowns, less III
than fashionable, which one tires OF
soon. and if women did but know II,
there is but one style becoming TO eacu
one Of them, which brings out her Soou
points and suppTesses poor ones, when
we should be glad 70 see her IN contln-
ally. Mary Stuart had nifty
grand dresses, stiff with goIu
and minever, and shot with
rubies and pearls as a modern gown
Is with let. but who ever wishes TO think
of her IN any costume but that of her
picture. the black velvet gown lifting
easily the supple figure, the transparent
cuffs and ruff Of point lace, the net OF
7,earIs and the white veil. She, beng a
beautiful. graceful woman, could do with
Il wardrobe of few dresses, compared
with the royal trump, Elizabeth Regina
who had 5000 toilets, some OF when, we
ore told exist to this day. But she
needed something gorgeous to take peo-
pIa's eyes from her black teeth as she
told one of her counseLors Good looks,
as much as are conveyed by good ooudl-
ton,
ARE AN ECONOMY
MS one can dress on SO much less into
them. But oh, my COUntryWomeu ,
what horrors have yOu not inflicted on
the travelling public in the pumedltateu
aTrOnts IN dress YOU wear in vacation.
She can see the benevolent use Ct earth
0uales tOTnadOes and epidemIcs IN
discriminating the shoals of ugly women
one meets travelling. II Is not want OF
good looks merely which discOnceTts one;
ii is the i'll health and i'll disposition
written in the harsh Or@peYish faces.
And why does the stout, barTel-shaped
middIe-aged girl always endure herself
in n shrunken flannel sailor waist and skirt
at her shoe tops, and the thin worn out
woman who looks more veTtabTec try to
tit a glove waist to her depression, anC
the fat girl get herself up conspicuous ID
DarficOlOred blue and white, TIL she Il
like Il vessel on review day, and the
blonde whose hair is not quite Whlte,
load her dress with gold oriental trim
ming. or pale ColOTs which give mel
the effect Of a white moth Dy
daylight Why do women rus:
over their compilations and paste
7,urtv and powder their faces, all indif-
ferent to their conditions as TO stoutnesi
or the reverse which usually include the
Question of complexion. A clever woman
viii be as critical of ten pounds too mucL
in her contour as of pimples O nher nose
it q sign she eats too much or takes tOt
little exercise, ana when people are re-
fined TO q proper standard they VIII On
ashamed Of being lazy and inactive 81
they are Of being lowered III other ways
Women weighing twenty pounds NOR
than they have q right to iniplore somt
charm TO 90 away with supeEhuous halT
forevermore unmindfUl that the, eXtIi
twenty pounds comes on long before th'
downv face which springs from the Ia
under the skin Just as Il does from gly'
ceriue or agniue upon it,.
How few people in this world know hoT
TO restI There is little provision made I
relieve the strain of life, in travel
hotels. see the tired woman leaY
heated towns for an outing by excursion
boats OF trains, where the crowd and VII
air reduce what little strength they star
with. Arrived, their only resource Is
seat On the backless benches Of sum
sner garden, OF the chairs of a hote
plaza. where they sit or parade, lunch
inc fndigestibly til It is time TO return
II these women and children could
FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF BOYS
and fling themselves ut length on th
sy7ard. the rest would be ten times rs re
e Ireshlng. Better still, if the Shake
chairs on plazzas were each provide
with the new Ieg rests which allows on
deocvousjy TO assume a reclining posture
vl.. one IDEA of popular summer resort
should he to give tired people the hes
cheuce Ior change and rest, TO recru
Ilr the rest of their year 5 poisoning l
she city. Fasv chairs, foot rests, ham
n-rcks, simple dress, Wholesome fare an
general license to be comfortable shout
be the rule of such resorts. 4 little. rest
q iittle relief, counts for so much III III
modern life which keeps one on til
strain. And then it Is easy to take sou