Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
HOW TO KEEP COOL.
Shirley Dare Gives the Ladies Adj
vice Upon Summer Apparel.
SOME COOL AND EASY GARMENTS.
New Yorkers Let Out Their HOusecleaning
On Contract.
BEAUTY HINTS FOR MEN AND MAIDENs
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ones who remember the general broil at
Philadelphia in 1876. 1t is warm enough
now to take saving interest in light under
clothes. 1t depends on how people dress
and how they eat whether they suffer from
hot summers or not.
A very luxury of comfort is shown in the
underwear Of the season, beginning with the
handknit silk jerseys in delicate shades Of
azure, cream, gobelin, lavender and Nile
greens to suit the toilet, for the undervest
shows through the delicate bengalines,
and veilings of the dress. These
pretty silk vests, with deep pointed fronts
and squares of guipure crochet, are worn
over the corset, which to suit the compact
style of corsage is next the skin or over a
gauze vest, to keep the corset steels from
rusting by perspiration. The silk slip of
jersey fits like glove over the short lace
stays, taking the place of the cambric
chemise. Corsets are reduced to minimum
and comfort dawns for their wearers, who
reduce their embonpoint by knitted webs
and bands which stretch to support the bust
and hips with few or no bones. The Greek
corset worn with the Recamier dress is moth
ing more than broad band of scanned knit
ting in lislethread, which holds the figure in
shape like the classic ceinture. The nurs-
ing corset with knit front prevents the ruin
of stays and good dresses in the nursery.
These knit corsets are exceedingly
COOL AND EASY
fitting. Between you and me, should not
like to inquire how long fashionable girl
will wear S5 French corset without send
ing it to the cleaners, for washing, you
know, spoils its perfect set. and French
cleaning is expensive. With the smooth,
slim French polonaise, the slenderest
amount of closely-ftting underwear is i'm
perative, but with a directoire dress one
slips on long chemise of white India wash
ing silk, whose lower lace and ruf1es serve
as the first skirt. Fullness about the hips
is forbidden, and the long opera stocking of
silk or thread, reaching nearly to the hip,
does away with other than the short silk or
cambria drawers, mostly lace frills and in
sertion.
Ready-made silk underwear in white and
tiDts is found In quantity in every shop of
consequence at prices from So for q chemise
and 81 for a nightgown. They are simply
made in fine cluster tueks with feather
stitching between and on the collars and
cuffs. Ladies say they wear the silk as an
economy, for it can be washed in a hand
basin with teaspoonful of ammonia in the
water, well rinsed, wrung in a towel not
to fray the silk, shaken to take the wrinkles
out and dried to put on next morning. Half
the women at hotels wash their own silk ier-
seys and slips in this way, and any fine day
you can see the lace kerchiefs drying against
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nue. Hotel, after their owners have washed
them, in the toilet basin, unwilling to trust
them to laundresses. It is singular how
often laundress has neighbor who keeps
a calf or puppy with an appetite for eat
ing up fine lace handkerchiefs and under
wear. And then the silk things are so much
healthier If worn without ironing, women
say. Clara Kellogg, Emma Thursby and !
Emma Abbott, it is said, never have their |
linen, hannels or silks ironed, because it dis
turbs the electrical state of the fabric next |
the skin. Silk nightgowns are worn by |
rheumatic people, and some go so far as to
sleep on feather beds in silk ticking sheets |
and coverlet, to get the full benefit of the
electric action.
A HOT WEATHER JERSEY.
Women of moderate tastes, however, are
content with the jersey wear of DalDriggan
thread, in extra length, which does away
with the chem;se except for occasions, to
the great relief of the family laundry. The |
beauty of this jersey wear is that it can be
washed in FIVE minutes at night, and one
may have the luxury of absolutely fresh |
clothes every morning, which reduces the |
discomfort of summer quite bearable. The |
secret of keeping cool is dressing light and |
keeping clean. Women, as a rule, do not |
emulate the rich bachelors at the Windsor |
who change their shirts three to five times |
a day In summer, but no one is refined who /
can go without change of clean clothes |
daily, with the mercury at So.
An improvement in eorsets is the rubber |
cord lacing, an eighth of an inch thick,
which renders the back more plant and |
easy to the figure. The rubber lacing lasts
we'll, unless one perspires very much, the |
acids of perspiration always attacking rub
ber. The little quilted skirts of silk Grape
aounced with lace, with white moire bow
on one knee are kept for the seaside where
she fair wearers must guard against cramp
and rheumatism, but for town the light !
striped silk and wool flannel skirt is worn
with the long black surah petticoat founced
with Spanish lace or real guipure, which is
not so extravagant as it seems, considering
laundry bills for white skirts.
GRAY LINEN SKIRTS
trimmed with torchon or gray handknit
ace are very serviceable, and there are new
nohair hannels in gray stripes from which
or travelling. Skirts of honeyeomb linen
rash are very cool, clean and durable, and
make the dress set we'll without starch or
prings This material is destined to be-
,ome very popular for skirts and travelling
lresses as well as for portieres and lounge
covers for summer. When every breadth of
Foolen stuff or carpeting smells unutter-
Ibly in warm weather, the cool linen which
esists dust and soil is most grateful to the
enses, and linen will soon become the only !
furnishing tolerable.
Linen sheets are simply necessity for
lckness and summer, when they secure re-
reshing sleep by their coolness. Consider
ng that they outlast four pairs at least of
otton, one can hardly object to the cost of
ull width Union linen at 40 cents yard,
II the hemstitched sheets of pure linen at
a 80 and S5 the pair. Plain hemstitched
,illow cases, of full size, ready laundried,
re 81 80 pair and upward, and this bed
inen is of good standard quality and very
yell made Embroidered sheets, with
Iaisies worked in linen floss over the quarter
ard of overlay, are SO pair and upward.
.oilet covers in cutwork and Irish point or
embroidered in the charming clusters of
lematis or hydrangess, which are favorite
esigns, little fine yellow floss introduced
nth the effect of gold thread, are S12 to S18.
'hese also come in old rose, lilac and pale
lue embroideries.
NOVELTIES IN FABRICS.
Fine French gingham robes are en-
roidered in guipure patterns or the French
ower festoons, in white and shaded tints of
be old pink, heliotrope, dark and light
lues and maize color, which are the choice