The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-08
AGREAT SUMNER EXODUS
SAILING AND SUFFERING ON THE
DEEP BLUE SEA.

DEEP BLUE SEA.
How a Woman Should Dress for an
ocean Voyage AID European Trav =
cling Bohemian Hints for Those
Who Do Not Care for the Grand
Tour-Women's Doings-
(Copyright)
NEW YORK, June IA good number of
us are, or shortly will be, sailing and suf-
fering on the deep blue sea, for 100. 900
Americans are bound to Europe this sum-
mer. luis an excellent thing for us, in my
humble opinion, for in spite of the blgness
of great, gray London town, and the glitter
of naughty Paris of boulevard and Champs
Elysees repute, most of us come home again
more than content with this wonderful.
yeasty America. with its upright and down.
right solution of mans equality with man
it is still left for new republic to assert
woman's equality with woman-its marve l.
nus possibilities for earning a soncy liveli-
hood, and its thousand and one admirabilities
which need not here be enumerated, not
least among which is the evolution of a race
Of women travellers, some few of whom
have sane ideas on the subject of travelling
gowns. :.
You may lie rolled up like a cocoon in a
steamer chair, you may boat among the
Hebrides from Oban to Syke, YOU may
climb Helvellyn or Journey about muleback
in Switzerland, and all in mental peace and
serenity if first you go to tailor or a good
dressmaker and have constructed for your
self staunch little frock of stout wool. If
last February you foresaw your summer
outing and had such a dress built then, you
are now SO much the happier, for the "new"
mas been worn off it, and you have lost that
first reverential regard for il which would
have caused you to grieve if an unexpected
lurch of the vessel had sent a rill of your
neighbours soup trucking over your dra-
peries. A February gown is the more suit
able let me hint, because it was presumably
fitted over your winter fiannels.
If uDluckily a gown for voyaging is to be
constructed between the resolve and the
start, remember that a mixed grey serge for
gives and forgets small insults most readily.
1t may have white neck piece, if you like,
of spriggled percale to button in, or YOU
may give it little character with black
revers; but it must be in design severely
simple, for the deck Of an ocean steamer is
the scene of perpetual whirlwinds which
play boorish jokes on draperies and it must
not be of the kind over which you mediate
half an hour before deciding on the easiest
way of putting it off or on, because
trick bodices whose dear, dainty. deceptive
folds are held in place by many hooks and
eyes cause the heart of the woman who is
struggling despairingly with her first state
room toilet to sink down and down, and
finally to ooze out-don't tell me hearts
can't ooze-at the tips of her toes. 1t must
be comfortably pockoted.
Women who have made more than one
voyage sometimes have their petticoats-
these of course are colored-bound in with
their dress skirts for ease in DOMINIC; if
they don't wear, that is, those modern
things that are bifurcated.
The number of wraps one needs on ship
board varies greatly with the Individual,
but is. Judging from personal experience.
commonly exaggerated. True, the stormy
Atlantic is at all seasons, and in its mildest
moods, remarkably open to the wind. but
woman who protects herself with medium
weight flannel underwear, such, for in
stance, as she is accustomed to use on a
sunny day in early December, will be apt
TO enjoy deck promenade in June or july
in a not too heavy ulster of rough faced
cloth, with a deer-stalker's cap or a soft
felt hat on her head, and her understanding
secured by means of low-heeled. perfectly
fitting, gaiter shoes. For the proper enjoy
ment of a steamer chair in a sheltered
corner with one of w. Clark Russell's tales
of shipwreck to while away the time, a
carriage robe or a big shawl is essential,
and, of course, a woman whose health is
not vigorous, cannot supply herself with
too many coverings.
A canny Scotchwoman who crosses the
Atlantic ferry every summer tells me her
greatest comforts, when the screw is kicking
out of water and old ocean is tossing her as
a nurse losses a baby, "now you go up, up,
up, and now you go down, down, downy,"
are her flannel wrapper in which she can
sleep if need be and which she can wear to
her sea bath in the morning, and lace
scarf which she throws over her head when
she removes her hat in the dining saloon, it
not being convenient" to give much atten-
ton to her hair
Appropriate dress on shipboard was ex-
emplified by Mrs. Kendall when she sailed
away bearing so many American hearts
and dollars-thoss she will bring back in
October, but these she will retain-in a
tailor dress of creamy brown tweed, fas-
tened at the throat by a little coral pin.
Over her shoulders she had long cloak of
darker brown, with Capuchin hood that
would cover her hair and her soft
tweed cap in time of need, and on her feet
were low-cut shoes-some people have a the
Dry it makes them seasick to stoop to use a
boot-buttoner-with overgaiters.
DO these paragraphs go into details I'M
necessarily? | have seen a woman bring a
Ou sulpDOdIu III a lOW-ueCk6u aIQ
short-sleeved frock. The woman came from
Texas, and the change of climate was so
Violent that it did not seem to be her fault
the little girl lived to land at Liverpool.
And when In ''furrin' parts" what to
wear: In general way one has to be
clothed more warmly for summer travel on
the other side than here. 1t made curl
Gus impression on me, if | may introduce
personal "reminiscences, on my first voyage
When fhn shjnJS 6natnr enid In uta,,
sighted Ireland: Have your warmer
wraps ready; people are apt to take cold in
the chill breeze of the land" To be per-
sonal again, found it necessary to put on
as heavy clothing nights and mornings in
the English Lake district two years ago in
september as am accumstomed to wear
ing 10 New York on mild day in midwin-
Ter. That season was exceptional, but on
the tight little ise a woman walking the
streets in tight lawn frock with sealskin
cape over her shoulders is not an uncom-
mon spectacle, and it's we'll to be on terms
OF intimate acquaintance with ones fan
nels.
When the summer traveller crosses the
channel she will find Paris about as hot as
New York at the same time of year. A
woman whom nobody accuses of not know
Ing how to dress herself is going to spend a
fortnight at little French watering place
IN very quiet way in July. She says she
Is going to take one cloth frock aud three
cotton ones, and buy dinner gown in Paris
10 fetch home.