Middletown transcript., 1895-04-20

60CuT0 III SOCldl anu uIduCldl pUSiIlOus >
dares to do as she pleases, to say that
she will wear this and she will not
wear that, but the business woman
who is wisest and most far-seeing fol-
lows in the wake of present-day fash
ions, avoiding exaggeration or absurd
ties SO far and so long as possible, but
even adopting them when she finds
herself forced to do so or remain con-
spicuous among women.
Good clothes may not be an essential
to success, but they are factor that
should be needed. Our clothes are
more or less of an index of ourselves,
and it is only the women who are sure
of their position in every way who can
afford to let the index be misleading.
Business women who are depending
upon their own exertions for a COM
Portable livelihood dare not do so.
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The woman who takes her daily bath
as regularly as she takes her dinner
and is equally conscientious about the
care of her teeth and hair has done a
good deal towards becoming an attrac-
tive member of society. But she must
do more. Her clothes must be clean.
Freshness and daintiness are the begin
ming of attractiveness, and the woman
cannot be an agreeable companion
whose frock is odorous of buckwheat
cakes, though she herself is combiDa-
tion of Venus and Minerva.
The Difference.
Her bonnet she wears on the back of her
head,
And every one says she's in style,
But just let man try that fashion instead
Of the usual one with his "tile,'
And people will say-for, indeed, there are
such
"We fear the poor fellow has taken too
much"
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Kate Sanborn has just been in New
York on her spring shopping trip and
says that she has now really settled
down to be real farmer. Miss San
born's first experiences, which are now
almost famous, began with an aban-
doned farm in Massachusetts. That
she gave up and leased another with
option of purchase. Lately she has
found third in Metcalfe, Mass, of
abont eighty acres, and has become its !
owner. There is no make-believe about |
her farming now. She has among
other furnishings good herd of cows,
and has already gone into the milk
business. Her chief pride is in fine |
stock, and she proposes to raise prize
animals on the new farm. She has
not given up writ by any means.
and there are no traces of "farm"
about the elegant gown she wears.
NJ iss Santorn, by the way, is said to
be one of the wittiest women in Amer
ca.
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A defect in the college life of Ameri-
,an girls that must be noted, says a
writer in the English National Obser-
1er, is this: "The arrangements are
90 much after the fashion of board
pg school, and do not allow sufficient
cope for the development of indivi-
lual character. The girls are expected
o retire to bed at fixed hour, and to
axe definite amount of exercise each
lay ;and-amore serious defect-they do
lot each have separate study. Where
he students board out, which is the
ase in most of the mixed universi-
les and some of the women's colleges,
hey share the life of the family they
oint; but where, as at Vassar, halls
f residence are provided, two or three
edrooms to one study are the usual
ule. AT Oxford or Cambridge every
roman student has at leass one room
0 herself arranged with much inge-
uity as bedroom study; here she
Torks, meditates of idles as she likes,
sceives her friends, and. mistrss of