Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-05-24


And, gracious, goodness, look at the
Deit. IL may be narrow, or it may be
wide; it may have plated buckle
from a cheap-John shop, or a gold one
that came from Tiffany's: but there is
a certain type of girl, wearing a sbirt
waist, who Is going 10 make thar hell
cover 10 inches, and 10 inches onlv or
die in the attempt. She doesn't die brs
she gets an awfully red face: and as for
her temper-her temper is USUALLY 100
Fahrenheit. The ether tyne Of girl
wearing belts and shirt waists don't
care whether the belt goes over q mar
gin of forty inches, or whether il en-
closes forty-two inches waist land.
These are the people who are looking
for comfort. Usually their skirts sas.
and drocp from under the loose belf,
so that the world az large knows
whether the skirt is gathered onto a
band, plated on to it, arranged In
those funny rolls like sausages." and
by this, he meant godets.
MEN ARE VERY IGNORANT
but they do not wear shirt waists.
Some vices are too mean, even for men.
The shirt waist girl is never satisfied.
She is accumulative. When she has
three short waists, she wants six. and
when she gets six, she yearns for
twelve. A fabric represents nothing 10
her except its possibilities in the shirt
waist line, and in a shop she stands
staring at bit of cotton trying 10 see
ii made up, and deciding whether its
collar ought to be white CT OF the same
material. She is reckless in buying
belts and ties. But she will wear one
skirt all summer. 1t may fray around
the bottom, IL may be undesirable in
every way, but if it is mentioned at all.
II gives her a chance to dilate on her
economy in wearing out her old skirt.
making it useful by the Intervention Of
the shirt waist. Anything that a wo-
man wears which gives her SEMI
loose appearance, always makes her A
little easier in language. 1, would be
impossible for girl in a summer silk.
made after the fashion of one worn by
Marie Antinette, and having a large
nat, gay with many roses and much
tulle, TO say a little word beginning
with d and ending with an n. but
her sister in a shirt waist a sailor hat,
an easy fitting belt. tan shoes, and no
gloves, finds 1t tumbling ont of her
lips simply because the cable car
doesn't stop when she signals it.
The shirt waist girl is supposed to be
given over to athletic games. Shs Is
fond Of carrying the necessary uten-
sis, but think she would rather sit
down and talk about how and where TO
buy shirt waist for a dollar ninety
eight every place else wonld cost two
dollars than 10 play any outdoor game.
Advertised bargain sales of shirt waists
would draw the wearer of them TO the
warmest place imaginable. and the
shirt waist fiend will stand ten deep
and lose all decency OF manner and
speech in their determination TO be in
at the finish and possess one Of the shirt
waists so lavishly described in print
er's ink. 1t is true that they are too
often misfits, and it is also true that
their material will fade under an in
tense smile, but still when they have
come from bargain counter, they have
virtues only appreciated by their buy
ers.
GOING TO SPEND THE SUMMER.
One Of the chief charms OF going away
fer the summer Is the packing Of trunks.
My advice to every sensible woman is
this: IF you have attached 10 .yoyr
menu anything that Is masculine, hid
over your keys to him and let this back
breaking. Notwithstanding business
be conducted by HIM" Man in the abb
stract is worthless as far as women's
clothes are concerned. but man. the in
dividual. can go over your belongings,
pick ont just what you want. and pack
your trunk 80 that it will lock. That Is
a great victory. ! never saw a trunk
packed by woman that would lock nj
the first call. Sometimes it does, after
the boys have jumped on it and the
strap has been drawn, but usually
woman has to tip an eXpressman 10 do
the locking He first ties a rope round
the trunk, then slams II on the floor,
and then turns the key with scorn, and
without trouble. A woman nearly al
ways knows what she wants to take 10
the country with her. but she doesn't
place her properties well. She knows
she can't buy the baby's timed food up
country. and so she wraps up innumer-
able cans of it and lays them between
Marian's organdie frocks, because they
do not make a heavy trunk. OF course
the tins leak. and Marian. who Is Is,
and expecting to look like flower in
these organdie frccks, doesn't quite
wish the baby hadn't been born. but
does wish that-well. anyhow she wish
es the cans hadn't leaked. She called
them some kind Of cans, but have
forgotten what.
One of the boys invariably reminds
you that, once you are in the country,
you have to drive four miles to buy
ink. and that when you buy II 1t Is
abomnibly pale. So, being a woman,
YOU Joy in harmony and in the trunk
with the books and your husbands half
finished novel, goes the ink. Every man
who lifts that trunk full Of books swear5
until he is the color of a lobster, and
every man who swears at that trunk
throws 1t down hoping to smash it. But
no man succeeds. However. one Of
these gentlmen manages to break the
ink bottle. and the novel reeks with
dark deeds and black fluid. And every
body Is sorry.
ON NATURES MEADOWS.
Still. everybody is in the courtyard
no matter what ones woes are they
lessen somehow when one looks at the
beautiful trees, realizes that the grass
extends further than the plot in thd
back yard, and drinks in the air 50 full
Of good tastes. City air always reminds
me of that perfume called opopanax,
the combination OF which Is only known
to the chemists, and the result OF which
is only pleasing to a rather deprayed
taste. 1t was once whispered that opop-