The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21

broken to pieces, and You start with
fright II anybody speaks to yDi, sudden.
". And thefcause? Well, it IL not often
oyerWOrk.
Sometimes it is mn improper way Of
living. Sometimes it is nj Improper. way
OF dressing. SOME times IN, iinDroper way,
ot eating, and very often it is combina-s
ton of all three. The young man who
sat opposite you at the breakfast table
ate some sort Of grain, chop, ain egg,
some potatoes and cup OF coffee, while
yon played with a piece Of, ioast aud
gruhlnif0 pefahse. the ten WISH sstrenE
your day wrong, The brain md the
stomach work in harmony and one rebels
when the other isn't properly cared for.
At noon you. have nh hoHr. !. You, rush
tonf, eat luncheon composed maiiily
CT sweet things and 20 back to the Of.
nee and sspend the rest aof your hour
either IN reading or fancy work. Now,
ever if you can't have, more than piece
Of bread and butter and a glass Of mill;
the food should be nourishing, and yo,,
ought to stay OUT in the fresh nir FOR
the remainder of your time, even # YOU.
only famuse yourself by looking in the
shop windows. For that time should be
a rest to you and a ciiahge, consequently
YOU should be where the air is different
ferent Sights than those Before H ep You oi n
the office: About your clothes. A silk
gown is very charming. It is feminine.
It is becoming and every woman likes to-
nave one, but after the silk gown ia got.
ten and the dress1naker's bill is raid.
new ahout your flannel underwear?
would the rheumatism be quite as bad
or would that pain i'll your, shoulder
come quite so often if you were proncrly
dressed? And wouldn't the wool gown
ne Just as becoming. and wouldn't you
pc a"great dea! more comfortable if YOU
wore 1t and the proper underwear in
stead of the silk frock and Door. thin
and miserable undergraduates? | SYM
pathlze with you in your desire to look
pretty, but you can look quite as pretty
and be great deal more comfortable in
a less expensive gown.-Ruth Ashmore
in Ladies' Home Journal :.
f.. A New French Petticoat. =
A petticoat seen in recent exhibition
OF gowns of an uptown dressmaker will
do much, It is expected, to mitigate tha
encouragement of fashions arbiters thnt
dresses are still to be worn with volu
minous skirts. The expense and .weivht
of the stiffening fabrics that are USUALLY
employed in the fashionably hanging
; skirt are two serious detrimcnts that
women who must dress 4 la mode have
had to accept.
The petticoat in question is in general
appearance the ordinary silk or Saline
petticoat, with wide flaring ruffie
around the bottom, which is held out bv
q continuous featherbone sewed in its
hem: On the under side, however, 1t
of ribbon steel. slipped into braid pockets
that with in6nitesin,al lightness but am
pie strength, hold the dress skirt. under
which it is worn, i'll perfect position. It
was the beautiful hang of the wide skirts
that attracted attention and elicfked in
quiry as to its achievement
The whole attachment weighs but two
ounces and half, and as no lining is
needed in the dress skirt it may be real
lied how great a saving of weight is
secured.
MY customers" explained the dress
maker, take two petticoats, one of dark
silk or Saline, for street wear, and one
OF light silk, with lace-trimmed founces,
for. evening wear. Then any dress in
OF these. and. no stiffening of any sort
is put in the gown skirt. The petit
coats, are cut a peculiar shape to fit the
attachment. and the result is the soft,
perfect hang which has been noticed.
a loop on either side of the dress skirt
ut the back side seams fastens to but
tons on the petticoat, so there is no
no crushing of the skirt if it is sat on
all day, as the elasticity Of the steel
made especially for this purpose, pre-
vents all that. Another thing my custom
ers particularly like about it is that
one hand grasping the steel curve near
est the waistband, holds a dress up easily
and completely: Every woman has com.
planned of the difficulty in keeping these
full skirts clear; of the pavement when
necessary"
The petticoat has French name, and
presumably halls from the home of clev
er Observation-Disclosures York Journal.
Finding a Girls Vocation.
1t is constantly impressed upon DO!
| during the four years of college train
ing that he must find out what he is
good for; he must either be fit or read!
to be fitted to do something which vii
have definite market value. But the
destiny Of the girl who goes to college
is carefully concealed from her If yor
! marry YOU will need biology, the sci
ences Of life and reproduction; hygiene
the wisdom to attain and preserve health
| sociology, the laws which govern indi
viduals in society; chemistry, physics
economies, all the sciences which may
help to solve the problems which the
housewife must meet; literature and Ian
! guage, the vehicles of poetry and in
| SEPARATION. No one has the courage to sug
gest any one of these as suita ble-nay
| absolutely essential-to the successful
fulfllment of her probable vocation il
life: Young women are turned blindly
adrlft .among Il mass of subjects, witt
no guide but a perverted instinct ant
with many a hindrance in the shape O.
tradition and ridicule. In all ages mer
have united in alteration of the dignit,
of domesticity and sacredness of mother
hood, yet any loving, foolish, unframed
inefficient creature has been held to be
good enough to be wife and mother
We do not expect a man to become ;
distinguished engineer or professor O.
Latin by studying little literature, his
tory. music and language; vet we ex
pect a woman to undertake an occuDa
ton for which, in this age at least. ;
certain definite kind of training is neces
sary, without anything more app1ica bic
than general culture. Prof. Mary r
Smith in Popular Science Monthly.
The American Woman.
| The most interesting of the American
women, by far, are the married ones
from six and twenty to 40; after that
age they are apt to become suddenly
gray and taciturn. Their faces dry up
and grow sharp and colorless; you scarce.
ly ever see anyone approaching the com
forta hln hanny Nnplish matron of 40 tf