The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-01
THE BLOUSE OF TO-DAY.
1t IL No Longer Cheap and Ill-Fitting, foY
1t Has the Sanction of Fashion.

Cheap little shirts are no longer n
demand. The day was when a blouss
meant ahirt of cambria or muslin,
which could be worn with the skirt OF
a summer dress when lined bodice
seemed too thick. It was comfortable
thing also for wear under an outdoor
jacket. A little later and it came out
in woolens, warm enough for winter.
but it remained humble and unpre-
tending-quite the poor relative of tho
stately, more expensive waist, made 70
match the rest of the gown. Then it
took an aspiring fit, and determined to
push forward in the world.
The blouse Of to-day is costly thing,
fashioned in velvet. satin, moire an
tique. It actually dimes out, it goes to
theaters, and has become one of those
elegant personal requisites which no
society woman can manage to do with
out. If you want blouse to wear with
one of those everlasting black silk
skirts which has survived its original
bodice, have velvet or satin blouse to
go with it.
It is almost impossible to enter
store without becoming the purchaser
of a blouse. You may only require a
paper of pins, but you will be decoyed
to the blouse department, and once
there, your fate is sealed. If one sue
cessfully resists the pink cambria with
its polka dot, it is only to succumb to
the seductive graces of the shot silk.
There Is sort of fascination about
these garments. The girl who once
takes to blouses never quite gives them
up again. 1t is mania. and must run
its course ere one can expect to see the
plain gown waist and skirt in one re-
stored to US.
The blouse is an incalculable boon to
the girl who knows how to put or her
things. but it is fraught with disaster
to a careless wearer. Considerable judg
ment must be exercised in the purchase,
or that pleasant futter of excitement
which always thrills woman who has
made a good bargain will be succeeded
by dOwn-sinking of the heart as she
finds herself the owner of blouse that
is too wide at the neck, too short at
waist or sleeve and of gigantic proper
tions in the shoulder piece. Our shirt
factories are turning out these blouses
by the dozen, and as the supreme OBJ
ject OF the wholesale makers appears to
be economy of material, the difficulty
of obtaining satisfactory fit is as
great as in any other ready-lnade gar
ment: no amount of pulling and twitch-
ing viii get badly made blouse into
position, and girl can no more wear
bad-ftting blouse than man can wear
a crumpled shirt.
Speaking of shirts, we are threatened
with an epidemic of colored shirts.
Already triangular surfaces of bright
blues and vivid pinks are observable,
where once the glistening wilderness of
three-ply linen held sway. Girls will
have to consider how these bright
dabs of color will harmonic with their
dresses and their compilations. A girl
may find her heliotrope muslin or Gre
pom killed by the blue-breasted Adonis
who honors her with his attentions,
while a red-haired girl will DO wisely
To keep the pink-shirted admirers at q
safe distance. Some very pretty blouses
are made of unbleached, undressed
linen. and they are unsurpas sable for
dura bility. A girl can make these linen
blouses really dressy and ornamental
by little embroidery in cross stitch in
Turkey red. blue or green coston.-N.
Y. Advertiser.
No one can choose his duties H
nay accept or reject those presented;
there is no third course. He may shut
his eyes and try to persuade himself
That some things more pleasant, and
not those painful, difficult things, are
what is required of him But it will
be of no use. They will remain duties
Just the same. If they come TO him al
,he order of Gods Will, his only hope
If peace and true prosperity lies in
nanfully performing them He will
not escape by fleeing the pain or the
.rouble from which he shrinks. This
s inevitable to every ONE who lives
But he may very easily escape the con-
,olatiou. the high support, the glorious
brill of JOY, which come only to him
Who stands msnfully in the place al
Gifted him and holds till death the post
% which he was assigned.
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