Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-03-11
oUR UPPER VERDE LETTER.
Suggc sttons of Dress Reform of Interest Co Thr Lsdies.-OtheT Affairs in
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 UPPER VERDE. March S.-l Regular
 correspondence - Whenever my
 friends see me running around Sll
 day with my front har done up on
 crinping pins, they know just as
 we'll as fl l had told them, that
 some one else Is going tO stay at
 home aud take cape of the children. : These occasions when l have to fix up" make me awfully tired. Why ! cant go to an entertainment with out fixing upi' Why can't l go m my outing flannel wrapper and my
 wide felt slippers instead of being | eucased in whale bone aud steel and l squeezing my corn into a razoT-toed nuisance misDsmed a shOei l know ! that such a thing Is not to be 1 thought of, but whyi Because 1t wouldn't look well. 1 don't believe a word of 1t. l look we'll, no matter | how I'm dressed. Besides, l don't % to a smacking good supper to be looked at. l go there to eat, and how am l going to eat plate of soup. with six whole oysters in it, without grunting while clad in my unyielding, non compromising best dIeSsf One thing strikes me with admiration when 1 look at a nan, and that IS the unsnugability of his attire. Why, a man can almost turn around in his clothes and look over the back of his collar without burst ing button. Everything required in the coat of a man is that it fit smooth between the shoulders and that the waist line strikes that par ticular vertebrs directly opposite his lower vest button. II IL fits in those two particulars its all right. His pants are all right, too; just so they don't strike him between the shoulder blades at the top, or drag the ground at the bottom. Now there's a vast difference when you come to the dress of a woman. She has to carry the goods to the dress maker and the dresSmaker has ;o measure and cut and baste and try it on. Then she has to unbaste an cut and remeAsure and try 1t on. Then she takes it up, and lets it down, and tightens it. Alter tbI, she lets it out and takes it loose, and pulls out the gathers, and puck CTS 1t in two places, and strengthens 1t out, and gathers 1t up, and tight ems 1t some more. Then when the wrinkled places are all smooth, and the smooth places all wrinkled, and you haven't room to breath your last breath in 1t, she runs her hand over the back and exclaims that it is lovely fit. It almost gives me fit to think of it. Whats the use of it, anywayi The ancient Jews and Greeks of the feminine gender didn't wear Steels and whale bone snd fibre chamois and such stuf. They dressed in loose and softly flowing robes about as tight as a Mother Hubbard and a great deal more picturesque. Even the Indian maiden of our own territory shows remarkable degree oi solid sense by her primitive style of dress. None but civilized women allow their clothes to be a burden to them. The average savage female has mercy on herself to some extent. It's all right, suppose, you want 1t that way; but as for me, I'm a crank, aud every time 1 have to 20 anywhere l sit and stare at the things l have to put on until my mouth waters to throw them away. 1 wish somebody would sec the con- nection between what have written and the Good Templars' supper at Cottonwood, for that is what I ! started to write about. It was a success-that supper-iDtellectuliiy, socially and financially. 4 crowd of l nice folks came down from Jerome. Among them was your correspond l ent's old time friend, Hon. c. W. l Hull, and the genial and handsome ! editor of the Jerome Mining News" We had some excellent music fur nished us by Mrs. Frank Jordan aud | her sister, Miss Ethel. The read | ings and recitstions were good, and 1 the solos sung by Hon. G. W. Hull i were very highly appreciated. They 1 didn't ask me to sing; think they 1 were afraid I night do it. The ! supper was Iip top. and every me 1 seemed to enjoy the entertainment | very much.
 We are looking forward [, the l coming of Mrs. Johns ani Mrs. i Hughes.
 Our school closes next week. ll | has been a very pesceable and pr ,f- itable school for the children fl | Upper Verde. The work dore by the majority of the pupils is remaSk- able for thoroughness and for pro- gress.
 We Lave had a terrible storm. The Black Hills are white with snow. Thls cold snap catches some of our fruit trees in bloom.
 Peter Windes is expected home from Tempe this week to halp his