The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-09-15
WoMAN's WORLD.
WHERE THE SKIRT AND THE BLOUSE
FALL At OUTS.

The Superiority of gVomen-A Timely SUg.
gestion to Notwithstanding Informa-
ton, Personal and therwise-Hints For
Homemakers.
A few years ago when the ''bang" was
universal two pretty girls who became
intimate always sealed the bond of true
confidence by telling each other how
they Ibid" their front hair. Today, un-
der the reign Of the shirt waist and CIR
die, the burning question is, "How do
you keep your belt DOWN." The SEEM
ingly simple costume Of blouse, skirt
and belt is really as difficult to realize
in perfection as most seemingly simple
things. The hour that fashion decreed
that the ''tails'' of the blouse were to
disappear inside the dress skirt and a
black ribbon belt was to clasp the join
ing between shirt and skirt woman's lot
received another cross.
Watch the trim scores Of girls who trip
along the streets of the great shopping
district; admire them as they advance
toward you hated, gloved and shod as
only the daughters of New York are; de-
light in the well nourished, rounded,
womanly figures in the simple silk or
linen shirt waist, the well hung dark
skirt and the broad black belt; then ven
ture to turn your head and gaze after
any one of these divinities as she glides
past and away from you. There is a ia
tai hiatus between the gathers Of the
back breadths of that well hung skirt
and the broad black ribbon belt made
moiselle has passed round her dainty
waist. The skirt and the belt it is sewed
to have slipped from under the outer
separate ribbon belt, and the wearer
knows it and is far more unhappy about
it than you can possibly be.
just as the girls thought the blazer
had solved their difficulties and drawn a
veil over that miserable divorce between
belt and skirt, which is the bane of their
existence, along came fashion again and
cut off the tails of the blazer almost to
the shoulder blades and sternly ordained
the Elton jacket. Belts that join behind
and unfurl funny little punches of ruff
aes over the offending gap OF a silk bow
with ends are applied to the small of the
back-anything rather than admit that
women are not built for the blouse, the
skirt and the belt as at present con-
structed and combined. There is m
thing really sad in the bald t~reachery of
the most desperate e~xpedients, as when a
natty girl in al immaculate duck suit
seats herself at a restaurant table for
lunch. The weight of her body drags
her skirts, the separate belt remains stol-
idly unmoved, and a large brass safety
pin, falsely so called, is disclosed, with
which she has hoped to secure all her
petticoats, as it were. to her, very verte-
bra.
The fact is the so called waist line is
as imaginary as the equator. The nat
ural girdle line is as displayed by Sarah
Bernhardt-that is, passing across the
hollow of the back, over the hips and
under the abdomen. To say that our
fair and lovely New York ladies shall so
grid themselves when they take their
walks abroad is to leave anatomical for
sumptuary law, but the fashion of the
shirt, the skirt and the belt is a theory,
and the lamentable disunion among
them is a condition which stares us in
the back.-New York Sun.