The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-04-27

Especial Correspondence of SUNDAY HERALDl
New YORK, April 25, 1890.
If you are woman, there are times in your
life when you like to get good, strong, healthy
man whose vocabulary in the direction of pro-
family is equal to his size and have him swear at
other women. There are nice women in the
world, there are women who are good business
women, but there are some who ought to have
string put around their necks and be lowered
to the bottom of the sea. Every now and then
somebody gets up cry of "Lo, the poor dress
makerl' but the average wall and the honest
one is, "Lo, the poor woman who depends on
her!" If taors treated men the way dress
makers treat women men would take to making
their own clothes in selfdefense but they never
do.
WHAT WOMEN OFTEN SUFFER.
The chances are that in the spring your fancy
turns to a new frock, and the man of your heart
obliged to listen by the hour to your tale of
the treasure you have discovered who is to make
it, the width of the material, the fact that you
chose shade that he liked, and altogether that
you are going to be as fresh and bright looking
on Easter Sunday the rose that you are
named after. Easter Sunday comes, and you
go to church in the cloth frock you have been
wearing all winter and the bonnet that you
freshened up by putting pink rose just under
new, or else you won't be lucky all the year
around. 1t suddenly dawns on that man late
in the afternoon that you had expected to ap-
pear like modified Queen of Sheba, and he
asks the reason Of the disappointment It's the
old story She, with very decided emphasis
on the she, after promising you should have
that gown month ahead disappointed you,
and she isn't quite as nice as you thought she
was for she snubbed you most numerically
and talked about people who really got expen-
those q
made, as If you, poor little mite, were to be
scorned because you hadn't the Bank Of Eng
land to back you Some day you get your
frock-it isn't what you expected 1t would be-
and it doesn't fit you, and you feel like taking
the scissors and cutting 1t to pieces, while you
give your opinion in plain English as to what
you think dressmakers are.
HOW TO AVOID DREssMAKING DIsAPPoINTMENTs.
However, you have neighbors in your afflic-
ton; your sister Lilly thought she would save
money by having dressmaker in the house. so
she got out of bed early in the morning, had
sheets spread about the room, and gave herself
up to living wherever she could so the dress
maker might have plenty of space When the
trock was nearly done the dressmaker said she
would have to take day off on account of her
neuralgia, and she has never come back, and
there's that unfinished frock, which no other
woman will undertake, four days of Lilly's val
liable time, not to mention her money, all gone
to the demnition bow-wows. Men wouldn't
stand it for one minute, and If women weren't
such out-and-out donkeys they wouldn't sub
NIT. Go to q tailor's and have coat made
you tell the filter confdentially you are crazy
to get that coat on Friday. He tells you with
equal intensity that that coat will not be done
until the next Tuesday. He could promise it
to you, but it wouldn't be done; but when you
put in an appearance on Tuesday you can walk
home with that coat on you, for he keeps his
word, and he makes fortune, and lives happy
ever after. And he deserves to because he has
kept his word.
BABINvENTs A DREssMAKER's PURGAToRY.
| think the purgatory of the dressmaker will
be to have frocks finished on time, or else she
will have to do them for nothing and drink a
glass of boiling birthstone. It's the same way
with washerwomen: they think handkerchief
or two don't matter, and you are just as pleased
to get your clean linen on Monday night as you
would be on Saturday They never seem to
discover that when woman has to earn hel
living she will never make q success of 1t unless
she does something better than men do, in addi
ton to being as business-like and prompt
Unsex herself? She would do nothing of the
sort. The housekeeper who runs her establish
ment on regular system doesn't unseX herse
bit, and it is just as easy in business to tel
tell the truth about times and hours and les
complications occur than If little tarrydiddle
were sown to reap harvest of discomfort ant
financial loss
A PRETTY WOMAN'S ANGER.
Why should you or / who pay the dressmake
what she asks endure her insolence and untruth
fulness? There are always other dressmakers
and the woman who has courage enough to leav
one who doesn't treat her properly is the on
who is doing her duty and making the pat
smoother in the future; for loss of custom
the only thing that will ever bring these ladie
of the thread and needle to their senses Thi
sounds very much like preaching, but ever
now and then ! become SO disgusted with IN
own sex that want to 90 to a monastery G
some other equally secluded place where tn
frou-frou of a petticoat will never be heard.
SHE CERTAINLY GOT 1T STRAIGHT.
The young woman with social ambitions ia
present to be discovered in every place where
baZar for some charity is being given or wheI
amateur actors making life wretched fC
people who have been foolish not only to bu
tickets, but to go. She has on her best frocl
and she is claiming acquaintance with this oil
and that one through the work in which the
are employed while she is handing aroun
sugared nOthings to the women who are pr
pared to swallow them She hopes by this
get few invitations for the summer and MOI
for next winter. She SO enthusiastic ii
other day that she announced in the hall of IL
hotel that she was ''on the top of the heap.
A bystander listened and heard what she COZ
sdered the top of the heap-she was going
hear Patti with the daughter of man who ha
been a false friend, who had robbed the wido
and the orphan, and whose social position G,
cept as far as money was concerned, was abs
lutely nothing but she felt that money talke
when il came to hearing Patti. A quaint Ol