The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-18

Csss o. 18th. SS W
"One yard of velvet being sufficient, if
cut to advantage, for both the dress and
hat, saves quite an item in the latter bill,
making the entire cost of both $500, and l
cannot imagine a more servlceable dress
for spring and summer wear, for q CASH
mere gown is not too much dress for any
time, and is allowable, if it is becoming, for
evening entertainments chat do not demand
full dress.
Another one writes thus:
Nov, the very absurdity of the thing
gpeakB for itself. | should like to be able
to arrange my plans and p~ocketbook SO
that $40 would cover my EXPENSE even for
the summer, let alone the entire wear. To
begin with, thirty-six yards for undercloth-
ing would not cover mo by any means, and
! am only live feet one and one-half inches.
What girl would like to go through life
with her underclothes made with a broad
hem and q button? Not many, | can as
sure you, for tucks and frills, embroidery
and lace are to dear to the average girl to
give them up without a struggle.
LAS for boots and shoes, / wear No. 90,
and can get a nice pair for So, and low
shoes, with patent tips. for S1.75. | get
along with two pairs of boots and Il pair of
low shoes, one pair of rubbers and two pairs
of slippers a year, the said rubbers costing
81 a pair. and my feet always look well.
But | forgot to mention one pair of foot
holds at fifty cents, the whole cost of foot
wear for one year being:
Two pairs boots. at s.. IS co
One par low l %
De pair of rubbers 80
Two pairs slippers, at 81. Observation-Disclosures. 2 90
One pair foOt-holds so
lOLal ... ..... . ....SID 10
Nov for dresses. I don't have a great
supply, hut what [ have | want good. /
don't want an apology for a dress. 1t it is
going to be wool, let it be wool, and not cot
ton. My dresses cost all the way from SO
up to $l5, and | make them myself some
times. If ] have them made they cost $40
more. Hats cost something also, bus as |
am a milliner, | can make my own
"a pretty evening bonnet is made of
cream white velvet ribbons and gold en-
broidery; a small wire frame is the founda-
ton. The edge has a PLAN binding of
cream velvet. The crown is made of the
velvet ribbon and a strap of gold up the
center. Small gold butterflies adorn the
front, and three small French tips and n
spray of white velvet roses and buds form
the back trimming. The strings are simple
ones of velvet ribbon made narrow and
fastened under the chin with a small pin.
Another hat OF mine is of pale blue crepe CO
chene, soft crown. the rim of velvet paE-
sizes, soft loops of the blue, and q large
bunch of pansies on the crown for trim
ming.
Il have not said half | should like to in
this letter. but will speak inst one word
moe about gloves. You can get n nice pair
suede in any of the pretty tan shades for
&1,b0, and it is much cheaper to buy coed
ones than to pay 50 and rs cents for a cheap
grade
This is what another woman writes:
"The more ] think on the subject the
more | think the woman who first suggest
ed that a woman could dress well on $40 a
years must have lived a great many years
ago, and she must have been on earth at the
same time Adam and Eve were. / should
like very much to make the acquaintance
haps she speaks from experience.
"She and her husband may have lived a
great way from civilization, say in the
backweods, ten miles from the nearest
~neighbor, snd one dress WAS all that this
creature required and a few pieces of'unz