St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18

want to wear 1t to party next month,
and besides it is the only evening dress
/ have, and goodness knows when | will
get another. How disgusting it is to be
poor and to have aspirations. If | were
rich | would order a nice white silk one
for the house, or even two, perhaps,
and black cloth one for the street
Let me see, cloth; haven't we some
thing made of black cloth in the house
that | could use?
A man was shouting ''Old clo'" in the
street, and bothered me with his I'M
pleasant voice. | thought l would sell
him that old pair of trousers of papa's,
and buy
| had it!
| would make my divided skirts of
those blessed trousers!
Papa is fortunately large man; he
weighs over POO pounds and l am sIen-
der, very, alas! too slender. Those
trousers were faShionably large and the
very thing.
[ flew to the wardrobe, brought them
out i'll triumph. and found they would
do Just had to cut off the bottoms,
which were frayed, to the proper length,
and the band, which my ingenious"
fingers soon fashioned into yoke, and
then gathered the top on to the yoke
like the ones they have in the stores,
and there they were.
Oh, l forgot to say that ] found
place down town where they were sell
ing lovely black worsted lace for eight
and One-third cents yard. | had to
skimped, and a spool of black sewing
silk, which cost eight cents. That
made the sum total of 2425 cents invest
ed. They are funny looking things and
not half as pretty as my embroidered
muslin skirts, but really one must sacri
fee something to being sensible, and
after all this fondneSS for muslin is only
an inherited prejudice.
DIFFICULT TO MANAGE.
I was rat her shy about trying them
on, for to tell you the truth they do not
look very easy to get into. l tried to
put them on over my head, but the legs
are too narrow to get into that way. 1t
seemed to me they ought to be wider.
Mamma came to the rescue and said
that they were like mems trousers, and
men do not put them on over their
heads, but get into them the other way.
Inever thought of that; it seems sort
of improper, doesn't it? Well, | got
them on at last, though did fall down
twice while | was doing it, and looked
at myself III IDe glass. L ulu look queer,
something like a clown. if clowns were
ever black from the waist down, and
there was funny ridge around my
hips where the skirts @ were ruff1ed OH
the yoke.
Mamma said to press it, so I burned
my fingers aWfuily. the iron was so hot
and so heavy. Mamma says next time
| must not press them on the right side.
as it gives queer, shiny look. But of
course this is only the first experiment,
and things are never perfect all at once.
When l put my dress on over these
skirts have rather bulgy look around
the hips, but perhaps that is owing to
papa's shape.
must say feel very light and I'M
trammelled and expect with practice to
develop ''a 1.-THE, vigorous figure and a
strong, free grace of motion and ges-
ture," as the newspapers say Mrs.
Miller has. But do you know when
went down the elevated steps the other
day each leglet went flip flap on each
step, and have had to brush and scrub
the bottoms just as papa does after a
rainy day. He says turn them up at
the bottoms, but they will not stay. 1
hope some one will tell me what to do
about that Still. [ do feel happy, for
know | am ''in the van OF great and
glorious dress reform movement"
have my eye on papa's dress suit