The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-14
WOMEN'S WORKING DRESS
II SHoULD BE zoU4YE TROUSERS
AND APRONS.

A Frenchwoman's Invention-A Teles
copic Intrusion on a Lovers Tete-a
Tete-Love and Marriage Among the
Esquimaux.
A woman's paper said the other day.
''The need of a convenient dress for work
is strongly felt by business women. Ont
of the largest working girls societies in
New York has adopted the blouse waist
and straight gathered skirt as a club
dress for the members. The dress Of
young American women would be i'm
proved by simplicity and cheapness.
They dress too extensively and too much
as a rule"
women engaged in making their w
living resulted in the discovery that
eighteen of them believed there was a
crying need of some dress designed dis
tinctively for business women, In when
they might have more comfort and COLI
venienee than in the garments they now
wear. Said one of them:-
"a friend OF mine, just home from
Paris, is very much interested in some
thing she saw there in the way OF q re-
formed dress for business m There
is no doubt that some reform in that
direction must and will come. though 1t
is slow, because women are not only very
conservative, but very much afraid OF
wearing anything that makes them con
spicuous or ridiculous. 1t is not women
they are afraid of so much as the men,
who, ever since the days of Jeremiah the
prophet, have been i~nveighing against
the follies of women's dress, but Who are
the first to jeer at and persecute her If she
dare attempt to emancipate herself from
those follies in any way. Now, in my own
case, for example, my work requires that
l should be out of doors a great deal, no
matter what the state of the weathermay
be.
"My condition when it storms is posi-
lively pitiable. must hold up my UNI
brella. grasp my skirts with one hand to
keep them out of the w~et-which, by the
way, never does succeed in keeping them
out of it entirely-and whatever books,
papers or parcels | may have to carry
must be tucked insecurity under the
arm. have passed men Flooding about
in the rain and almost wept from envy.
Their trousers are turned up quite out OF
the danger of wet, their1ong makintoshes
nave deep pockets that will hold all their
parcels and papers, and they have both
hands free for their umbrellas, and they
can step into their office, lay aside their
outside wraps and be as neat and dry as
when they left home. Let any woinan
NdAh ObS q UA41 LtNAh tNAo y IL 0AAO
can say the same thing when she arrives
at her destination.
"The new French dress which my
friend saw at Paris seems to me the best
suggestion / nave heard yet. The trouble
has been to find something that would,
while being convenient, be also graceful
and modest, and this seems to come near
it. 1t is modelled on the uniform of the
Zouave regiments and consists of trou-
sers and gaiters-the neatest thing, by
the way, for walking that has ever been
invented. This makes no exposure of
the person at all, while leaving the limbs
perfectly free. Over it is a skirt that
comes almost to the ankle, but it is only
slightly gathered and is slit up on each
side to the hip, so that while it answers
all purposes of modesty 1t does not inter-
fere in the least with locomotion. The
waist can be either a blouse with a sash,
or a waistcoat and coat, with plenty of
pockets. hear that a number of French
women, who manage their own farms or
have work to do out of doors, have
adopted it and find it both comfortable
and becoming. Nine. Dieulafoy, the
great explorer, who wears an entire male
} costume on her travels, is a great adj
mirer of this new dress, and says it Is,
she thinks, the solution of the problem of
a working dress for working women"
A Shocking Intrusion.
i. A certain gentleman who has a cottage
upon the beached margin of the sea has
been by q friend presented with a tele.
scope so powerful that through it the
faces and doings of unconscious passers
IN yachts far out at sea can be clearly
discerned. On q recent afternoon. as he
sat amusing the leisure and idle houT
| which follows the completion of the daily
duty of smoking the midday cigar, by
: looking through the glass he saw on d
yacht far out at sea, miles away from
anything to give them a notion that they
were likely to be seen, d fond lover press
Z ing to the lips of a lovely damsel the most
ardent of kisses.
The worst of the matter was that he
recognized the lady as the daughter of a
friend. and he thus found himself in the
very awkward predicament of having in
, truded upon the privacy of the lovers and
of having, so to speak, stolen their secret.
, He continued to look until the lacking of
the yacht brought the pair from behind
the sail into the sight of the skipper who
was managing the boat, when, of course,
they at once became proper and ceased to
be interesting.
He thus forfeited all claim to the plea
of inadvertence with which he might
have soothed his conscience had he sim
ply looked and turned away. He had de-
, liberately spied, and there was no gain
! saying the fact.
He IS now laying the whole blame apo
the giver of the telescope. whom he
. charges boldly with being at heart his
enemy, and with having taken this subtle
q and cunning method of undermining his
self-respect and manhood. He declares
that no gentleman would give to another
an instrument which cannot be used
without intruding upon the privacy OF
his neighbors to q degree wholly incom-
patible with good breeding, and he an
: nounces that he has expressed this view
, to his friend, the giver Of the telescope.
) "And what reply did he maker" was
} asked by one of the household as the
irate master of the house laid down the
proposition aforesaid.
.fReply!' echoed the owner of the tel
escope. "He wrote back that he was GLAD
, that it worked so well, and that he should
come down and try it for himself p'-Bos
ton Courier.
Esquimaux Love and Marriage.
A recent visitor to the high ATTITUDES o
the North, gives some interesting point
: about the Esquimaux. He writes thus
When an Esquimaux man fell in Low,
i, with a woman he did not go and pou
passionate u~tterances into her ear-h,
Simply took her by the hair of the heat
and dragged and pulled her to his hut
4 OF course a woman in Greenland must
as in all other places, pretend not to lik,
it. The women were not considered wei
. educated il they did not run back HON,
two OF three times after being dragged
o.rau Tf rhay ran AWAY f0n nftan tht