Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-12
Nine. LIE Vanway Interviews
One of the Players.
And Prints a Letter from q
Very Ordinary Woman,
Who Likes to Dress and Look Pretty
as a Pink.
How to Use Pongees, Null and Cheese
Cloth-Hat for the Country-How
do Men Live this Hot
Weather?-Woman's
Way-FriIls, etc.
Written for the HERALD.


Mercy there's new disease brand
new fashionable disease!
It's the tennis shoulder. l saw dear
little dot of thing standing in the
shade by the tennis court yesterday.
She was struggling one of her shoulders
convulsively. 1 noticed her for some
time. Then said
"Can help you?"
She did look so distressed, couldn't
help it.
She blushed. Then she laughed. "Ohs
I'm only trying to keep down the tennis
shoulder" she said..
What may tennis shoulder be when
it's at home ?" asked.
"Why, don't you know? Oh, it's aw-
full" she exclaimed. "Why, you get your
right shoulder way up high when you are
playing don't you know, and your left
stays down, and there you are. read
about it the other day; so Pm exercis-
ing my left shoulder to even 'em up!"
How often do you play"
"Oh, about twice week"
II don't think you'll have a very bad
case OF the shoulder" 1 said, consol-
ingly. She looked relieved.
"Oh, don't you ?" she chirped CRATE
fully.
Queer our grandmothers never had
spinning shoulder or weaving shoulder.
isn't it?
Who does originate those fads?
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like letters. They always wake me
up. Here's one that came last Satur-
day. It's a good, sensible letter, too,
and Pm glad the writer wrote it.
''SANTA MONICA, July 4, 1891.
"DEAR MADAME: Nav L ask what Won
have to say to the ordinary woman about
wearing silk tights and silk skirts? OF
course she ought not to exist-the COM
mon-neither-rich-no woman but
she does, with other evils. The woman
who is after all comfortable, stylish, even
attractive; the woman who can afford
beside her wrapper but two street
gowns, one for ordinary wear, the other
for occasions.
Then II one wears ajersey-woven suit
OF fine wool, a fine close ribbed corset
cover, what need has she of tights?
"As to silk skirt. it is madness for q
woman, whose pin money is limited, to
do anything but dream OF one.
II know every one ought to live we'll;
to have maid; to travel; above all to
dress well-not 'loud'-but really well--
with even touch of the artistic. But,
but-there are women of taste who
must shut their eyes to much they de-
sire.
II am fond of your articles, but per-
chance they are writton only for women
Of long purse? If SO, you will not
answer this in your next article.
"You know the women who do not
wear silk tights must be stylish, even if
it is of different texture. Sincerely,
"CARRIE G. BROWN"
Now, that's what call good letter.
1t has nice pointed questions in it, and
you know just what to say when you
answer it. Well, here's the answer.
The ordinary woman is just the dear
est woman in the world. She's always
the kind that knows lovely recipes for
soup, and something good for burns.
She can make delicious dressing for
salad. and she can make an afternoon
call interesting and enjoy herself all the
time. Moreover, she likes to dress we'll,
and she always manages to look as pref
ty as pink on any kind of an income.
think she ought to exist, and not only
exist, but live.
Now about the silk petticoats. A
silk petticoat is not very expensive.
China silk, or wash silk, | mean, espec-
tally when you make it yourself. But
then, it does cost something. There's
no getting around that fact, but 1 only
advocated that petticoat because there
xryLo 10< af H.
learned the comfort of tights, but they
understand? | don't believe in 'em at
all-only with certain very thin gowns
and l said in previous letters, If you
must have 'em, have 'em light, thin,
flexible.
Pongee makes a delightful petticoat
and it comes by the piece very cheap;
enough to furnish you with skirts for
your natural life. If you must wear
white ones, make 'em of cheese cloth
if you can't afford muslin or null.
Then the tights. Silk tights are Joy
forever, but there be many kinds of
tights that are not silk There are cot
ton, there are Isle, there are wooden,
alice samee other underwear. You pays
you money and you takes your choice.
The jerseywoven suite and fine wool is
just precisely as good as tights. And it
doesen't sound half SO advanced
~*x
How do men live in the hot weather?
Talk about women's needful dress! Is
there woman on earth that wears
heavy fannes, and stiff collars and
thick cloth suits, when the aspiring
thermometer is climbing starward? Not
a woman. Women, even the fussiest of
of them, wear frills and fandangles of
muslin or lace, fine cobwebby hose, and
loose throated, billowy sleeved gowns.
Oh, and thin light corsets. That's q
fussy, stout, old fashioned dresser. A
fin de steele woman wears a cobweb
vest, thin pair of tights, a thin pair of
stockings, light little shoes, and gown
that doesn't weigh three pounds.
Where's the man whose lightest get up
weighs less than ten pounds?
Women do know thing or two, once
in while, don't theyP