The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-09-01

Obliged to do it don't throw your money
away on a cheap flannel suit that fades
and gets stringy so soon.
Leggings or CATERS are indispensable,
and they can be Of the material Of which
the rest of the suit is made, or they can
be black, dark brown, blue or drab
The best taste would choose the brown
or black, and it would be a good plan
to sew the buttons on still stronger if
they are bought for buttons are among
the most peryerse of the wicked and I'M
regenerate inanimate things, and they
delight in flying off entirely or hanging
by one loose, untidy string. Such suit
as we have been describing depends
much upon its trim neatnGss for its et-
feet, and no girl likes to appear untidy.
Athletic and outdoor sports and &C
tive exercises are better for girls than
too much study and reading Of promls-
cuous literature, and some wise folks
consider the healthy body and the strong
nerves they earn by this kind OF tram
ing worth more in after life to the moth
er and wife than much Latin and Greek.
Certainly it does seem q pity for parents
to spend a fortune on q girls education
when in all human probability the only
use she will ever make of her accom-
plishments will be to formulate an idea
in one or the other language, that she
expresses to herself to the music Of
washing dishes or securing pots and
pans, to the effect that all that education
is of no use to her, and she is going TO
bring up her girls so that they Will have
backs strong enough TO bend over wash
tubs and nerves that will stand every
strain that the tolls and cares of wife
hood and motherhood may bring. She
will send them boating, horseback, to a
fencing master, and they shall bloom
out in tennis costumes of the brightest
kind They shall go to the Berkeley club
and learn to box, and aside from the
three RS they shan't wear themselves
out in study and things that are OF very
little use to any woman who gets mar
ried. Then maybe a couple OF futile
tears fall into the soup kettle, and the
educated mother goes to order fencing
and tennis costumes for the dear girls.
1t never seems to occur to her that
the girls could develop physically learn
ing housework She finds that the fenc-
ing gowns are oftener made Of hopsack
than anything, as 1T is so light and heX-
ible. To be sure, it must be stylish, SO
there are big pulled sleeves of perhaps
some other material. The waist is snug
and trim, but is very elastic, often be-
ing OF jersey cloth. There is Il low turn
down collar, with q tie Cherry red is
pretty over d gray or tan frOck. Around
the short skirt there are several rows of
narrow soutache to match the collar.
The sleeves reach but to the elbow. The
stockings are always black, the shoe
soft and with corrugated soles. There is
one daughter disposed of. Now for the
other.
She is to shine in tennis courts, and
SO she gets a dainty challie frock, with
dark blue polka dots. Around the plain
gathered skirt are laid two rows Of black
insertion, q trimming at once light and
effective. The waist is OF white crepon,
made very full at the top and bottom,
and at the waist it is confined by q belt
of dark blue ribbon. The neck is cut
down just little and made square and
is bound with blue ribbon, with q frill