Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-31
THE SUMMER OUTING.
How an Ingenious Woman Made Up
for Her Cottages Lack of Closets.
CUSHIONS T0 BE TAKEN ALONG.
The Cleopatra Girdls Set on Top Of the
Head Is the Seasons Fal.
GOSSIP FROM MARGARET r. WEIGH

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.f
"When was shown into the summer
quarters that had engaged sight unseen
as the boys trade jack knives" said a
woman recently, "my first sensation was
one Of delight over the big airy corner
room, with two large beds that I and my
three little girls were to occupy; my second,
of dismav to discover not . closet nor
Wardrobe in its extent Four trunks fol-
lowed me upstairs and where, thought 1,
can pnt their contents? Before
strap was looened ran down and
asked for the village carpenter,
and in 20 minutes I had him in that
room. From one window to corner there
was stretch of six feet blank space; there
he put me shelf on brackets with row OF
hooks beneath; on the edge of the shelf the
next day my maid and shirred q cambric
curtain and thus evolved press for good
gowns with shelf for bonnet boxes and
such light bulky impediments; one Of the
beds had high head board of stained oak;
we stood that across another corner of the
room, tackled valance of cambric to the
lower edge of the headboard as dust pro-
tector and in the triangular space thus Sc
cured, we piled neatly. on the
floor, the chiidren's heavy coats and
play gowns for cool weather that we
did not need every day, while to
the pine reverse side of the headboard we
nailed bag of stout bedticking as soiled
linen hamper; one of my trunks was a fiat
topped, trayless packing trunk and IN this
we keep the starched dresses and skirts, my
big shawl covering its unsightliness; dis
carded soap box from the village grocery we
have covered and use as a shoe receptacle,
and with one cheap four-armed towel rack
screwed to the door for every day wraps, and
. second fastened to the headboard for odd
wrappers and bed-gowns, we are as tidy and
comfortable as Robinson Crusoe sin his
desert island.
'Tt amuses me-" says q Delsarte priest
ess, 'fto hear mothers tell their children to
hold their shoulders up. 1t is not the
shoulders but the chest which needs eleyat-
ing. Hold the chest up and the shoulders
fall into proper position naturally. tell
nv classes to fancy . ball at their throat
which they must roll off over their chests. "
The summer piazza of the suburban and
country home shows some novelties of fur
nishings Portieres Of awning cloth, hung
on poles with rings, frequently take the
place of the conventional awning, and are
newer than mating curtains, though these
are still seen. Shirred half curtains be-
tween pillars are also . new notion this
year. They are like sash curtains in win
dows, and are made of wash cretonnes or
even cottage drapery in rather dark and
figured effects. A cottage in the outskirts
of Saratoga has these shirred curtains in
Turkey red and the combination with stone
and dark brown paint is not at all bad
Quite the most often seen in the way of
head-dress this summer at the watering
places is the Cleopatra girdle or some vari-
alton of it On the old coins showing the
head of the Egyptian Queen, it will be re-
called that a. bandeau is always seen. The
nineteenth century woman has put the
girdle little higher on her head and trans
formed the knot at the nape of the neck to
upright loops above ths forehead, but she