Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-22

or bottle-green silk Innings showing at
waist collar and tabs, the jacket
lined with silk, has more real
style than Shower dresses, and being
practically indestructible, it is gown
for years. 1t stands any weather, any
amount of cleaning, and the sleeves
don t wear out III Il season at the draw
ing board or desk. The bonnet or hat
may be OF corduroy or better, straw or
felt the same color, trimmed with ribbon
loops and quill feathers. facing Of vel-
vet sander the brim. In serge-like ma
terials, the India twill, smoother than
camels hair, wears like the old thibet
in good qualities. Make it with plain
skirt, trimmed By rows of ribbon velvet
above the hem, orrun the front widths
in length wise accordion tucks, which
look like the accordion pleating,
but wear so much better. A
coat polonaise faced with silk,
having Directoire front is the appropriate
thing with this skirt, and where judicious
cost is an object, dispense with trim
mings, have ali pleats pressed carefully
and tackled to the Innings to keep in
place: use handsome buttons and silk
Innings, desirable for warmth as well as
elegance, and put the money into pretty
plastoons, cravats and kerchiefs to wear
with the dress. Mary Anderson wears
very plain gowns, however expensive,
for the street and carriage, but has
charming craYats and lingerie for the
throat, stylish gloves and hat, instead of
overloaded trimming, which always
looks third rate on an outdoor dress.
To freshen passee silk take spots out
with ether, press with hot irons, with
thin wool yelling above the silk, make a
plain skirt with front widths fitted to the
hips and run strips of ribbon velvet in
different widths down these fronts. Two
inch, inch and haIf-Inch velvets are very
well Msed in this way, with the effect of
graduated stripes. To keep silks from
"cutting out and wearing on the hips,
interline with the thinuest layer of wad-
ding tackled TO the skirt lining, for which
black linen lawn at % cents 81 yard is a
good thing. Make the under part of
sleeves, the elbows, and waist under the
arms of sthe--aTess material double, to
prevent wearing oHt and 30 give ease in
mending. There are but two shapes of
bonnets worth considering, the toque for
piquante, or regular features, and the
poke, with broa6 fiat brim in front
rounding to the crown alone behind, for
passee or prominent faces. Straw will
be worn late this year, silk, mixed with
velvet and fine jet aIgrettes forming a
distinguished trimming In buying
feathers, get, the French ostrich plumes,
which keep in curl much longer than
the ordinary ones, and are said to re-
sist even seaside damp.
ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENCE.
R. S. W: Is there any remedy for
premature grayness and balduess? [
refer to young men twenty five to thirty
five, of good birth, sound constitutions,
correct habits. Myself and many Of my
friends are fast becoming gray-haired
and gaining high foreheads. What is
the probable cause, heredity, tight hats
or brain work? For myself, I have lived
out of doors, never was sick, seldom wear.
a tight hat, and live plainly and coFrectE.
ly and, finally, grayness is not heredi-
tary.
One of the last opinions on badness is
that it is sympathetic with dyspepsia or.
visceral inflammation, added 6;tists IN
tense mental strain Of business. The loss:
of phosphates from bolted flour also rQkss8
the brain of the supply needed foF4ts
constant labor, and the physical demands
OF the system. Close sleeping rooms in
jure the hair, as well as the brain it COW
ers. Very few young men have really
correct habits of eating, or sleep enough
TO recruit the nervous forces. They eat
and sleep just enough to prevent them
from feeling any failure Of force, but an
unconscious drain limits and lessons ii. l
should like to know just how many hours
by the clock that young man sleeps in a
fortnight, ana just what is his bill of
fare for that time? A strict account
might throw light on the matter of cor
rect habits without further advice. If
young men will demand the strong bread
and cereals which keep up nerve and
muscle, will not grudge sleep. and wear
hats only when Indispensable, they will
find hair staying on their heads. The
habit of wearing hats in Offices, in hotel
rOtundas, whenever possible, Injuries the
brain and hair more than any one is
aware of. If men should return to ar
tique usage, and lift the hat more fire.
quently to ventiIate the head, it would
benefit more than their manners.
a Constant Reader: AS I am I'M
able to got out to ascertain, you
will confer a favor by informing me
through your columns what the ruling
wages of domestics are in your city, and
how they compare with prices paid in
other towns. l desire to treat my girls
as well as others, anu, as II IS lett win
me to find out what the ruling prices are,
1 am at sea until [ see it in your col
umns.
By all means let us hear from women
in all parts of the country about this in
teresting question of wages. In Boston,
good girls get from three TO
four dollars week, as plain
cooks, and for general homework
done in the best manner, and I think
New York prices are the same for COM
petent help. The riffraff ask this, but
no instructed housekeepers will give it
unless to good help. French Canadian
girls in the suburbs of Boston "9rk for
So so a week. They know littlL u cook
cry, but are teachaDle, neat and pleasant
to have about AT least so have found.
We must have vital Improvement in the
matter of servants, or We shall cease TO
have homes, or mothers.
NJ. Nj. H: l am the pOssessor
of Philadelphia Parlor. -
am sure you know what that means
"a long marrow room with two win
dows on the street-side folding doors
into the hall one narrow French window
III the lower corner opening on to the
side yard and a mantel SET directly in