The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-08-19
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For Women They Form Hair the Fun OF
Going Into the Country In summer.

For women one half the fun of going into the
country for the summer consists in coming IN
town for the day. Not that there is anything
very important to come for, In spite of frequent
references 20 scrubbed memoranda: but men
are such failures rs shoppers that IL is neither
safe nor pleasant to intrust such business tn
them. Even the dearest husband, who thinks
1t no hardship to race up to Harlem for a dog,
or ransack tho city for a special golf outfit,
turns sulky the moment he Is asked to match "A
bit of dimity or fetch down half a dozen pairs OF
stays on trial. He never sees when he can find
the time, invariably makes q mess of the whole
business. and then winds up by losing his temper
when mistakes are pointed out to him.
But II husbands only knew IL, they would actu-
ally save money by. being "a little more thought
full and amiable. Here Is a story to prove II.
The heroine is a lady in West Chester. whose
fon veil and Il pair OF patent tie clasps, brought
about an expensive matriInonial jar In her fam
tion was just seventy cents, and Tor ten days she
honestly tried to persuade her husband to get
them for her.
On three occasions his excuse was lack OF
time: twice he declared that he forgot all about
them; once he left the package on his desk, and
another evening, when II Glanced 10 be folded
in n newspaper he had finished reading. IL was
carelessly tossed out of the car window. After
that he began all over again, but without any
better success, and ut the end OF the following
week his wife stopped speaking to him
into town to do her own shopping, the result OF
which pointed a moral her husband Is not likely
to forget very soon. 1t made the difference he
tween 20 cents and $40 to him. Four hours
use OF n hanson, luncheon at DelmOnico's with
two women chums from Hampstead, Il lovely
SEQ hat for cost ON account OF removal, a frOck
that was. being given away at a marked down
sale, and some ridiculOusly cheap Dresden fig
urines footed up the difference. The man says
his memory has grown so keen and sensitive
that he can recall the lace pattern on his own
christening robe.
Nor do these amateur country women find II
bad fun to make the trip back and forth just for
amusement. They know most of the COM
muters. and the men who stop In town all sum
mer are desperately civil in their pleasure at
seeing one Of their own kind in the city once
more. such u woman from the country L. al
ways a picture OF crisp, cool elegance. English
women never recover from their surprise at the
train all day and look as smooth as silk at the
end OF the journey. For these brief trips back
and forth during August she usually wears a
bodice OF clear pale lilac lawn spotted
with white polka dots. It's IA French shirt, Just
from Paris, and quite different, OF course, from
anything seen IN the shops. In an inch
wide band down the front, in long wedge-shRped
stripes on the shoulders, and forming eXagger-
atedly high and deep rolling collars and cuffs, Is
the ~stiifest OF white pique. The chic look "
gives Il remarkable, and where the neckband
comes together there is a crimpled jabOt Of the
lilac lawn. Her tsring skirt Is black, OF richly
leather. her gloves white. hat a rough saffron
straw dressed with black violets and aigrettrs,
while over II is drawn the lOng-tesired white
chiffon veil. She Is tidy, cool. and correct, and
remains 81 In spite of hours of unremitting toll
over the counters.