Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26
9ai1Y eagle
WOMAN AND HOME.
TIMES WHEN JOHN IS THE VINE AND
HIS WIFE MUST BE THE OAK.
Duties of Parents as Such-f1y True,
Pretty SwaIIow-Bid Mrs. Grundy Be
gone!-Roumanian Marriage Customs.
Suggestions for the Home Ruler.

gone,-Rounanian Marriage Customs.
Suggestions for the Home Ruler.
A very observant woman Of fashion and
society said the other day to the reporter:
Sin time of trouble We women must be
strong. It Is always SO. When john comes
home wild eyed, his hair half pulled out and
his mustache com5ed up one side and down
the other; when he PAGES the floor or fops
with his head buried In our lap, and says the
world has reached an end, that his horse
came II behind, that bis cashier has skipped,
that his consulship has been given to another
man, that bis last great book has been re-
turned, that his play is a failure and that he
wants to die; OF course then we must be
strong and firm, and full Of heart and cour-
age. That Is the time be Is doing the clinging
vine business and we must be the oak
But when things 60 well we shall best
please him, best hold him, best be sure Of
him by remembering how much the man
likes to have his chiefship, his strength, his
muscle, his manlineSs emphasized by depend
ence, curves, rou-frous, and femIniniuy In
Us. We will bring all this out Ia the pretty
house gowns that have become fashionable,
won't wei 1t is good thing for women that
fashion has Of late years turned our atten-
ton to house gowns. Nowhere should q
woman look more charming than In her own
home Nowhere is she in atmosphere more
calculated 20 suggest about her all the charm
of femininity in its best and sweetest way.
The tea gown is or may be triumph for all
of Us 1t combines the simplicity, the sug
gestion Of at home and repoSe of a wrap
per without the dishabille Of that garment,
with the elegance in texture Of ball gown
without the fornlality Of such one.
'Of eli modern gowns invented and accom-
plished it may best suggest the breathing
woman inside. It makes best use Of such ma
turai curves as may be betrayed without the
support of stays, and suggests the freedom
and comfort of the whole figure without
looseness. There is always that awful flop
pishneSS about a woman who, without stays
On, puts herself into an ordinary modern cut
dress Let me utter protest right here
against those unconventional women who
think themselves furthering the cause Of
health and beauty by going without stays
and yet wearing the ordinary gown. I will
acknowledge at once that the uncorseted fig
ure is the more graceful If properly draped.
House gowns, ali OF them, this philosoph-
icai lady went on, land all Of their varia-
tons, are on the cut Bernhardt (bleSs herr
made popular-the cut which comes nearest
TO s1iting all women, ali materials, and all
occasions 4 loose skirt, full and undraped
in front, may be less dressy than one punched
up and fddledeea and squirmed and Squinted
into tucsS and folds and rosettes, but it is the
skirt which VIII most surely resolve itself
into curves and folds which will shift into
harmonious draping through all movements
and positions Such effect Of skirt is certainly
the most suitable In house robes-gowns in
which one may look graceful in the easy chair
or on the oouch-gowns that viii cling pref
tily about the feet when we lean back, that
viii fall into saving folds when we
cross one knee over the other, as
would be quito impossible and i'm
proper in our street dress-gowns in which
we can so down on the floor to get acquaint-
ed with Flossie and her new doll, sure that
we have sunk into soft swirl of folds from
which, if your gown is lacy enough and pretty
enough, We may rise like Venus from the
sea
Il am old fashioned enough to think q wo-
man should meet her husband with smile
when he comes home. am Of the opinion
that pretty house dress viii materially as
sist the smile ! have much faith in the in
auence Of furbelows and femininities over
men. OF course, they like Us TO look delight
fully self confident and capable on horseback.
They fancy that Amazonian Suggestions of
tailor made gowns, tennis rigs, fencing COS
TUNES, rowing get ups, walking outfits, shoot
ing suits and bath authorizations; but they
like to find the Amazon resolved, upon occa-
sions, into q slip of soft surah and foaming
lace looking like q bubble on bowl Of suds,
or pale tinted ribbon tossed over a bunch
a L Il l.
best In a house gown, won't youl"-New
York SIM