Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08


balsam pine. Such wine needs no bush.
The house is kept to English taste, and be-
ing on its own domain makes its own rules.
You can wear yachting suit or a Tuxedo
dress for fortnight if you like, without Of
Tending. The Conmodore's daughter has
worn her plain navy blue boating suit, q
Cowes gown to begin for the last ten days,
and so has the young Southern heiress, of
the Amelie Rives type, but quieter. and the
leading actress, born granddaughter of an
Episcopal dignitary, and akin to half a
dozen of the best names in the really best
American society, spending the summer
with her exclusive and patrician family who
never allow the theater mentioned in their
presence.
THEY DO THE DRESSING.
The second rate peo pie, and the middle
aged ladies do the dressing for the commu.
nifty. The beauties and the bel esprits leave
their trunks full of gowns unpacked, and
one begins to believe yachting dress of
dead blue, or white relief of dark red or
white lines at wrist and collar the most be-
coming dress in the world, which it is to
good figure and complexion.
After seeing a fair woman in the dress
which most suits her, you no more wish to
see her in any other than to see an oriole in
pink or robin in parrot green. When
women learn the art OF dress, they will need
much less in the way of outfitting than
they do nova change with the season, that
is all 1t is your cheap, pronounce illchosen
gown less fit than fashionable, which one
tires Of soon, and if women did but know
1t, there is but one style becoming to each
one Of them, which brings out her good
point and suppresses poor ones, which we
should be glad to see her in continually.
Mary Stuart had
FIFTY GRAND DRESSES,
stiff With gold and minever, and shot with
rubies and pearls as modern gown is with
jet, but who ever wishes to think of her in
any costume but that of her picture, the
black velvet gown, fitting easily the supple
fgurt, the transparent cuffs and ruff of
point lace, the net of pearls and the white
veil? She, being beautiful, graceful wo-
mar, could do with a wardrobe of few
dresses, compared with the royal trump,
Elizabeth Regina, who had 5000 toilets,
some of which, we are told, exist to this
day. But she needed something gorgeous to
take peoples eyes from her black teeth. As
she It'd one OF her counselorS, Good looks,
as mi ch as are conveyed by good condition,
are IN economy, as one can dress on SO
much less into them"
But oh, my countrywomen, what horrors
have you not inflicted on the travelling pub
lie in the premeditated affronts in dress you
wesr in vacation. She can see the benevo-
lent use of earthquakes, tornadOes and epi-
denies, in decimating the shoals Of ugly
women one meets travelling. 1t is not
WANT on cnOn ToOrs
merely, which disconcerts one, it is the i'll
health and i'll disposition met in the harsh
or peevish faces. And why does the stout,
barrel-shaped. middie-aged girl always en-
dure herself in a shrunken flannel sailor
waist, and skirt at her shoe tops. and the
thin, worn-out woman, who looks more ver-
tabrec, try to fit glove waist to her depres.
sions, and the fat girl gets herself up conspic-
uous in particolored blue and white, till
she is like vessel on review day, and the
blonde, whose hair is not quite white, load
her dress with gold oriental trimming. or
pale colors which give her the effect of
white moth by daylight. Why do women
fuss over their compilations and paste, putty
and powder their faces, all Indifferent to
their conditions as to stoutness or the re-
verse, which usually include the question
of complexion? A clever woman will be
as critical of ten pounds too much in her
contour as of pimples on her nose. It is a
sign
SHE EATS TOO MUCH,
or takes too little exercise, and when people
are refined to proper standard they will
be as ashamed of being lazy or inactive as
they are Of being low bred in other ways.
Women weighing 20 pounds more than they
have right to, implore some charm to do
away with superfuous hair for evermore,
unmindful that the extra 20 pounds comes
long before the downy face which springs
from the fat under the skin just as it does
from glycerine or agnine upon it.
How few people in this world know how
to rest There is little provision made to
relieve the strain of life in travel or hotels.
see the tired women leave heated towns
for an outing by excursion boats or trains,
where the crowd and vile air reduce what
little strength they start with. Arrived,
their only resource is seat on the backless
benches of a summer garden, or the chairs
of a hotel piazza, where they sit or parade,
LUNCHING INDIGEsTIBLY,
till it is time to return. If these women
and children could follow the example Of
bows, and fling themselves at length on the
svard, the rest would be ten times as re-
freshing. Better still, if the Shaker chairs
on the piazzas were each provided with the
new legrests, which allow one decorously
to assume reclining posture.
The one idea of popular summer resorts
should be to give tired people the best |
chance for change and rest, to recruit |
for the rest of their years poisoning in
the city. Easy chairs, foot rests, ham,
mocks, simple dress, wholesome fare,
sbould be the rule of such resorts. A little |
rest a little relief counts for so much in this !
modern life which keeps one on the strain. |
And then il is easy to take some of these |
rood things home with one. The flannel |
Shirt and the tennis sash will appear in the |
parks and on piazzas in town, and the boat
inc dress, or the Tuxedo, is too comfortable |
not to be affectionately worn whenever ex-
cuse can be made for it.
COMFORTS OF THE SEASON.
The steamer chair, the japanese lounge
or the splnt chair and footrest will be ap-
plied to when fatigue besets one, and the
light clean, healthy fashions of the seaside
be grated on the prim way of the town.
The sailor blouse and Tuxedo dress first |
taught women that they could really dis |
pense with a tight corset and yet be pic |
turesque.
If the Venus of the water chose gown of |
modern fashion it would, I think. he q |
draped Tuxedo, which one can transform |
into two or three different styles at pleasure. |
For instance, 1t is easy to fasten the skirt |
over the sailor blouse and have a trim,
belted waist. Or q surah front may be |
gathered over it, and the empire sash girdle |
the fullness. The skirt raised little ON
one side over the striped shirt is really |
Greek, although the barred panel on the
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