Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-31
CARE OF THE WARDROBE.

tion.
The zone dress and wear it, plan,
though in some respects q good one, is
not by any means the most truly eco
nomical one. For instance, there is no
saving in wearing ones street gown
during the hours at home. 1t is better
after the visit or shopping expedition.
both for comfort and economy, to ex-
change the toilet that is dusty for
clean robe. 1t is scarcely possible to
come in from an excursion of any kind
in dainty. order, SO in the interest of
her personal charms a woman should
get rid of her street costume as soon as
may be after she arrives at home. The
garment should be thoroughly busted,
shaken, pressed and hung upon a
hook in the closet Occasion
ally touch the soiled spots
with benzine and examine the
seams for broken stitches. Never
wear a wooden gown in the kitchen. 1t
retains odors and smoke, and soon be-
comes offensive as well as shabby. 1t
is saving in the end to have fair and
Indictment weather costums straight
through, Even macintosh is not an
adequate protection against the raw
ages of storms of rain or snow. Have
gowns for occasions" if it can posi-
bly, be managed. 1t will be money in
the pocket to do SO. It is the same
with shoes. It's pity to wear the
fair-weather walking footgear through
mud and slush and rain, for a wet shoe
never is as nice again. It's shape is in
jured and it has lost double weight in
wearing quality. It is better to keep
a trim, serviceable, plain pair of shoes
on hand for this kind of spelling" re-
serving the better pairs for kinder
weather. Even for fair weathe it is by
far the best economy to have several
pairs of shoes at time, wearing them
alternately. When not in use they
should be stuffed with soft paper and
carefully covered from the dust 1t is
needless to say that shoes should be
carefully looked to as to loose buttons
and torn button holes Rain ruins kid
gloves No matter what price you pay
for them or now superior the quality,
1dampness will make them lose shape
and break. This theory of saving also
applies to a sufficient number of under
garments for various necessities OF
wear. It is the same, too, with pocket
handkerchiefs, fchus and the SMALL &C.
cessories of the toilet. As for hats, q
small shower will make chaos of the
smartest confection from a milliner's,
and the sensible woman will provide
herself with a soft felt derby or close
plain bonnet, on which the elements
may work their will without spelling
either her looks or her serenity.-Bos-
ton Courier.
Slavery In Siam.
Slavery has been abolished in name,
but it can never be abolished in fact,
for the slaves have no means of sup
porting themselves outside their mas
ters' houses Every member of the Si-
amese upper classes can fetter his ser W
ants or throw them into prison with
out any kind of trial or permission be-
ing necessary. One morning went to
call upon one of the ahlest and most
enlightened of the ministers, a man
who has been to Europe, and who once
actually got into serious trou BILE for
trying to inaugurate a sort of woman's
rights movement in Siam. I made my
way by mistake into part of his
grounds where visitors were not ex-
pected and 1 found slave fastened
down to the ground in an ingenious
Kind of pillory in which he could not
move hand or foot, while another slave
/ tortured him with severe strokes of
bamboo rod at the word of member
of>the family in order to force him to
confess to some misdeed.-Contem.
iporary Review
The Woman Turns.
Proud Young Woman-No! wouldn't
marry you II you were the last man in
-khe world.
Fond Youth rejected but not crushed)
You can bet your sweet life you
wouldn't I'd have too good an assort-