Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16
WORKING BY SYSTEM.
shiftfess and Spasmodic Efforts Re
sponsible for Loss of Time.
THE GOOD TRAINING BOYS GET.
Odds and Ends Garnered for Women Read
ers by Margaret H. Welch.
SMALL BUTTONS FOR BIG GIRLS.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.

SMALL BUTTONS FOR BIG GIRLS.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.1
Somebody wonders what becomes Of
girls time? She has no time to see half her
friends, or 80 she tells them at every en-
counter. She rarely begins letter without
explaining that want of time has prevented
her writing sooner, she is anxious to go
here, there and everywhere, but she has
''no time" Nor is this complaint confined
to the young woman at home merely. The
modern business woman is in many instances
dreadfully overworked and pressed for
leisure. One reason for this, undoubtedly,
is in both cases her want of system. When
a man starts his son on a commercial career
he begins by teaching him business
habits" Punctuality, system, promptness,
application, perseverance-he is drilled
over and oveI again In these attributes
and the average business man has ''time" to
accomplish great amount of work. So has
the woman who conducts her work upon the
same plan.
Mrs. Margaret e. Sangster, editor of the
Bazar, postmistress of the Young People,
story writer, essay producer, poet prolific,
admirable housekeeper and valuable men,
Der of her social circle, is never in hurry
and can spare an hour or two at any time
upon a sudden demand. Mrs. Sangster
works systematically. So do Mrs. E. P.
Terhune (Marion Harland) and Kate Up
son Clark, both women OF large families and
wide social interests, active members of sew
eral clubs and most fruitful literary work.
ers. But though many similar instances
may be cited, it does not yet come natural
to women to be systematic and methodicaL
Generations Of business men have implanted
hereditary business instincts which quickly
develop in most young men. It will take
an age of busy women to give them the same
chance.
The dining room in Oscar Wild's new
home near the Chelsea embankment is done
in white and has a shelf running quite
around the room. The room has no furnft-
ure besides the table and chairs. It is said,
the harmonious, smokes cigarettes before
soup and after game at dinner.
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The ambitious ohatelaine has taken 10
embro1dering bedroom sets These may con-
sist of formidable array of pieces if she
wishes to complete fnll set She must
have bedspread and canopy, table cover,
window curtains as numerous as she has win
dows, and usually two portieres The most
popular materials are linen sateen or Bolton
sheeting. A set seen nearly finished by
woman who has made it the occupation of
her summer leisure, is of cream white Bolton
cloth worked in shaded green's in fax, which
has the double advantage of looking very
effective and of wearing indefinitely.
This set was in an all-over large design of
grape leaves and was copied from pair of
old English curtains worked over 100 years
ago. A more effective pattern perhaps is
scroll, one which is used as a border. The
allow er designs at little distance look too
much like a printed cloth-ah effect much
to be regretted by the Industrious needle
woman who has spent days of labor in their
execution. Beautiful bedroom sets are
those of serge, one of fawn worked in
shaded browns being much admired This
set included the cover and drapery for a
toilet table and the design was loosely
strewn punches of clover.
White tarpaulin sailor hats are wonder
fully fetching with gala yachting costume
of white English flannel and gold braid. It
never wise to use the silver or gold braid for
continuous wear through a cruise of several
days Such trimmings are reserved for the
state occasions of day in port ora short
run of few hours.
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French women eschew the eternal blue Of |
the yachting English woman and take their |
nautical outings in gay dresses of red cloth |
and flannel; most French women are of the |
brunette type, and to these the dull navy
blue of the conventional sea-going gown is
trying. 1t is tenet of the dress
ing Of Partisan women to wear first of all |
becoming thing and second to make that
stylish one. In the matter of red wearing
in general it is wise to recall Nine Mod
eska's utterances: 'Red worn below the
face deadens the complexion; worn above
The face heightens the complexion"
If, therefore,, a woman wishes to subdue
,he color in the cheeks, she should wear
red gown or plenty of red ribbons about her
throat On the other hand, if she wishes to
give her face a certain touch of color, let
her wear red hat or red flowers in her
lair The force of this is seen in the case
If pale blonde who frequently looks well
n q red hat. Let her, however, put q red
,ow in her corsage, and the effect is at once
unpleasant 1