Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-10-12
KEEP YOURSELVES PRETTY.

Some Sound Advice Addressed 20 Mothers
and Daughters.
To speak briefly. woman should
always, whatever her work or hurry,
dress herself neatly and prettily at the
beginning Of the day. The bath in
pure water Is in itself an orison. 1t
not only removes all the physical soil
Of the previous day, but also seems
with holy touch to renew the heart,
leaving fresh page for the sweet,
new life Of the new day. The hair
should be nicely arranged and becom-
ingly. l have often wondered how
women have the courage to present
themselves before their families in
"crimps." have been married many
years, but never yet have felt myself
willing to leave in the memory of my
husband and children single picture
Of me in so ludicrous a guise. If, how
ever, you must have crimps, wrap
some becoming bit of vailing over your
Medusa head and hide your horns
from view.
The hair being nicely fixed dress
yourself in calico, or what you will,
it pretty and neatly fitting; and always
wear q collar.
A bit of ribbon gives the grace. the
air. the prettiness. A ribbon-box
should be we'll supplied. A fresh
collar and ribbon not only make n
woman sweet and connolly to look
upon, morning JOY to the husband
and children, but the woman herself,
conscious of being properly dressed, is
moro quiet, less fretful. There is
nothing like slovenly attire to make
O woman hate her work and her home.
Many a hard-worked wife and
mother seems to think tia part OF her
lot to look like q last years bird 8
nest. But it is as cheap to dress pref
tily as to dress shabbily. and takes but
little more time.
A woman should always be well
dressed. mean that her attire should
be neat, becoming, suitable, and such
that she should feel no shame in the
eyes of those who love her best, whose
eyes are always the most sensitive. I
have heard of woman who always
wore bright bows on he slippers
Asked her reason. she said she wished
her boy to notice that her slippers
were pretty, and to associate her with
the prettiness 1t was q good reason.
Children receive their ideas. and
form their habits of thought while yet
children. Little helps the young girl
t. learn in after years the Importance
OF perfect cleanliness in dress. If DUR
ing the yea g Of childhood she daily
played about q mother who was not
clean and ce. Mon have passionate
admiration of every thing feminine.
They love daintiness; ard daintiness
goes as we'll in calico as silk
Dear wives and mothers. keep your
Selves pretty. Be lavish in white
aprons; and IL the work lulls bit, or
you come to eat or to sit, have q white
apron to take the place of the work
apron.
Ii q woman would always be that
beautiful, ungrasped joy that the maid
Is to her lover. she should keep her
reserves. I hardly know how to fit
words to my thought The wife should
ever have something mo Q to offe.' to
him she loves She should be old,
yet new, each day, old in the dear love
and closeness, the closeness of the
married years. old in the dear memo
ries together; old in the common cares
and struggles together; but new in
greater patience. more gentleness, in
some new trick of beauty, new in
thought. more glad in love, more ten
der in sympathy. Chicago Advance.