The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-04-05

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aNow for dresses. don't have i CREST
supply. but what ! have want good :
donst want an apology Tor dress. Il Il Is
cotton My dresses cost all the way from
IS up to $15, and I make them myself
sometimes. If / have them mafze they
cost $40 more. Hats cost something also.
but as / am mlulnar, can make my
own.
"a pretty evening bonnet Is made Of
cream white velvet ribbons and gold am
broidery; q small wire frame 1s the
foundation. The edge has plain bind
ing of cream veiveI. The crown is made
OF the velvet ribbon and strap OF gold
up the center. small gold bHtterfEes
adorn the trout. and three small Trench
tips and spray OF white velvet roses and
buds form the back trimming. The
strings are simple ones or velvet ribbon
made narrow and fastened under the
mine Is OF pale blue crepe de chine, sofr
crown, the rim OF veiveE Dansies, soft
loops Of the blue and a large bunch Of
| pansies on the crown tor trimming.
Il have not said half I should Ike TO in
this letter, but viii just speak one word
! pair of sueue in any Of the pretty tan shades
/ for $50, and it 10 much cheaper to buy
good ones than to pay 50 and 10 cents for
8 cheap grade
| This Is what another woman writest--
'sTne more / think on the sub ject the
more / think the woman who hrst sug-
gested that woman could dress well q
| $40 year must have lived a great many
1 years ago. and she muss have been on
earth the same time Adam and Eve were-
/ should like very much 70 make the
! acquaintance of this economical piece OF
humanity. Perhaps she speaks from ex-
psrience. She and her husband may
have lived great way from civilizations
say IN the backwoods. ten miles from tbs
nearest neighbor, and one dress was al
! pieces of underwear. On wash day she
went TO bed willis her husband washed
| the one single dress, and in shat manner
she. of course. could do nlcely on SO q
year. and even less
.sNow this daring woman may have had
I this experience, but there are many OF her
sisters who have not, and heaven forbid
that they should have. Ii there is q man
4 who viii tell his wife that she can haye
SO this year to furnish herself in CLOTH
ing-just $40 and no more-and be ex-
| poets her TO look nice and stylish, he
ought 10 be horribly ashamed Of himself
II that nisn were my husband would
take the $40 and use 1t to pay my divorce
fee.
Then again, supposing loved that
stingy man, and would rather dress on
$40 than be separated from him, should
decent looking suit in which GO appear az
the opera house with my lord and master.
Obi yes. we would 60 TO the theatre, aud
my husband would have three so suits
of clothes hanging in the closet, and
new oyercoat with seaiskin collar ana
cuffs. You see, to have all these things
himself, he can't give his wife more than
SO a year, and then he would wish =
were $50.
II have friend who says she can dress
on $40 year, ana You can. too, Tor size
(poor soul) is obliged 20. For instance,
buy dress at 9 sale, say twenty hye cenb
goods marked down to ten cents yard
wouldn't 1t be lovely dressf Shoes sha
can buy for 81 pair, and cowhlae ones
at sixty cents Everything else she can
get at the same reasonable rates. aud ~
the end Of each year she wishes herseiz
! anything but married woman.
81 believe in economy, aud am mar
ried woman, but l cannot dress on ~
| year and look well. ] should be sur.
prised If my husband should think q
such thing. but he never has yef
have got a whole-neafsed man Tor nus
band, and thank heaven and the MINIS
ter who married as that I didn't make
mistake and marry q so year young
man.
Girls, Nnsne~-
Frances Is s.unsfafned sad fr1es"