The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-13
Dress Among the WORKING Girls.
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Dress Among the Working Girls.
On the subject of dress. it is wonderful to
note what change the working girls clubs
have brought about in the toilets of their
members. Such wise women as Miss Grace
| Dodge, Miss Clara Potter and Mrs. Mary
Storrs Haynes, the daughter of the Rev. DIR.
! Storrs, who have influence in them, have
used this influence so wisely that lady
VINO was guest at a little club reception
Tue Otner evening was moved to ask OF a
bright girl with whom she was talking:
would you think it discourteouS II L
We're TO say something very personal?"
Not at all, was the smiling answer.
Well, then, l have been thinking that |
never In all my social experience saw such
well-dressed company Of young women"
DO you mean because we don't wear
plush and jet and those things?"
fes," this hesitatingly; Il did mean
just that"
The slight figure drew itself up proudly.
NO seif-respecting girl would put on taw-
dry ornaments; we think them vulgar"
how lar this new spirit may go WAS illus
trated recently when il little outing was ar
ranged Tor dozen club girls laid Off" from
WORK. They were to meet at The Grand
Central Station, and ride a few miles out of
Town TO the residence of lady who had sent
for them TO initiate them into the Joys of
toDogganlng. AT the appointed hour they
Were on hand III their quiet tasteful dresses
OF dark wool, and with them was working
glri not club member. This unfortunate
outsider wore a piuk cashmere frOck,
trimmed with velvet, and the club girls re-
fused To fraterniZe with her, because, as one
OF them put 1t, - if she thought such il loud
dress as that was fit for railroad train, she
| couldn't be nice TO know" Poor forlorn
pink cashmere required the utmost efforts of
her hostess to keep her spirits from drop
ping to zero, for she was Stunned all day.
A Notable Trousseau.
Still speaking of clothes, shall l take for
granted any curiosity on your part, and is
such curiosity to be considered pardonable,
or will 1t be piece of vulgarity, pure and
simple, if l gussip a bit about our richer
| neighb0rs? Among the daintiest things in
the trousseau of Miss Shepard, the daughter
| of Colonel Elliot 4. Shepard, and who be-
came Mrs William Jay Schieffein on Thurs
day, were the fans. One which came, among
many other gifts, from the brides grand
mother, Mrs. William II. Vanderbilt, was
a charming old-time fancy in dehcately
! carved saDual-wood. Each stick was richly
! lnlaid with gold, and the sticks were tied to-
| Gether at the bottom with gold ribbon,
| cruSled with small diamonds and emeraldS.
The mount was yellow old lace, worth in it,
| sell small fortune. There were several
| old Vatican fans with wonderful paintings,
TO use which TO cool the cheek, even Of
daughter of the Nanderbilts would ap-
| proach the barbarOuS. The amount of lace
used IN the rousseau was something al
most unprecedented. II the bride adds to
| her collection she can easily make II, before
Inc lapse oil very many years, one of the
most notable In the country. But however
she may take unto herself the dignitieS and
adoInmehts of matrOnhood she can never
make herself look prettier than y hen at one
OF her little charitable entertainments no
long time she StDul fair slauhar GIRL
with blush gray eyes, wearing blue silk
1rock frlnged with small piukish flowers,
with guImpe of white null drawn up about
her throat, her only ornament a necklace
OF small pearls with one huge, pear-shaped
pearl hanging in front ms a pendant
Uniforming Chaperones.
It's very logical when you cone to think
OF II, 50 many are warranted in assuming
the dignitieS and responsibilities of chaper-
onage only by technicality; they are Just as
young as their charges and a thought more
giddy, but they happen to be-married. 1t
is well, therefore, that in opera box or gay
assemblage there should be some outward
and visible sign whereby humanity, or so
muehe Of it as happens to be within gazing
distance, may know of a surety that such
and such sweet buds and opening blossoms
have complied with the formalitirs REQUIRED
by very considerable sections of the flower
NOl anu udNo lhlT ana fascinating
duennas for their guardians. No regalia
can ever be adopted formally, for there
would be strike of chaperones If the sug-
gestion were made above whisper that they
be put in livery; nevertheless the matter
adjusts itself without agreement, without
consultation; some subtle influence working
| insensibly but making its effects manifest
along the line OF the eternal fitness of things.
! The Louis XIV coat is what this psychic
| farce has brought into favor. Half the
| chaperones wear il, and will you promise
| Lot TO count 1t against me if | so far forget
| myself as to say it's very "swell?" | saw
two fine ones the other day at the exhibition
| OF George l. Seney's pictures. One was of
| rich dark green velvet with deep cuffs. flap
| pockets and waistcoat of green white satin,
| embroidered in gold. Its wearer had three
| pretty girls in tow, but rival with a purple
| velvet coat and cafe-au-lait satin Waistcoat
! had four.
Grace Greenwood Small Economics.
One rainy morning few days ago it hap
! pened to me to surprise Grace Green
! wood sewing "Do you," she asked, ''use
the needle?" Truth forced me to confess
| that had lite knowledge of its gentle
| mysteries. 'You are Fortunate" she said :;
take good care you don't learn; if one be.
| comes business woman it behooves her o
| know that she can't succeed if she fritterS
away her energies on too many small econo-
| mics She mustn't work in an Office all day
and then sit up half the night to make her
| own dresses. Ii man earns only So a
| week he doesn't try to save by stitching up
| the seams of his own coat or trousers. If
| he did he would never earn any more than
| So. He puts his head into his business and
| schemes to make himself more valuable !;
| then he buys coats and trousers with his ia
| creased salary. A woman saves at the
! spigot and breaks down. I've wasted half
my life sewing, but'-thiS with a reminis-
cent smile-"I was brought up to sew and l
| like it,"
Mrs. Coils.
Mrs. Septima Coils, the wife of General