Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-21
The Path Acro.. the Fields.

Around me was the beauty
Which only summer yields,
The shadow OF the woodland,
The bounty of the fields.
The CLEAN Of shining waters,
The murmur OF the sea-
The. varied book Of Nature. d.
All opened wide for mel ,
Amid these scenes of beauty !
I spied a pathway there,
All fiowerless and dusty.
All hard and brown and bare.
No dainty gown swept over.
No foot in dalliance strayed
Along the narrow limit
The tread OF Toll had made.
But weary men and women
At morn and eve did pass
Beside the way ~unshaded,
Amid the sunburnt grass:
Their steps were slow n heavy,
Their garments bore the soil
OF the hard worlds grim workday-
They walked the way of Toll.
So close against our pleasurs
Is the undertone of Care,
OF those who. all unsheltered,
The heat and burden bear.
. And the fair summer memory
Sweet harvest to me yields.
Yet ever lives the picture
OF the path across the fields!
-Harper's Bazaar.
It seems that the winters tailor gowns
are mostly arranged for.
Narrow skirts with stitched hens and
coats very much longer than we have
worn for five years seem to prevail.
The seams of the coats are also stitched,
and the only trimming upon 1t is the rolled
velvet collar, like the one placed OF the
mems o%vercoat.
American good form has not yet aban-
doned tho plain tailor gown, with its per-
feet out and entirely good fit, and they
have also had the good taste to remain
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ness OF the affair to the lining.
One can use the most brilliant piece of silk
shown on the counter, both in the coat and
skirt. Plaids are yet among the novel;
ties, but n best tailors tell me their Gus
toners prefer the c~hangeable t~affetas, no
matter what else they show them. Proba-
bly, it is because We do not get so tired Of
the neutral lining as We would of brilliant
colors, and again it is more than possible
that nothing wears so well as the change
plaids are apt to cut and wear where the
colors do not This may be true or moi,
but I have always ex~perienced better wear
kind of silk shown.
Another fact of the new coats for tailor
suits is that they button over close up
to the throat. only showing a bit Of the
shirt waist and he tie. This enables a
woman who wishes to wear her tailor gown
in the weekdays over a linen shirt waist,
to put about the throat an elaborate collar,
which serves for a more formal occasion.
For example, / know q woman who has
a black tailor suit. She wears 1t over linen
shirt waists. as 1t is so warmly lined. for
shopping and informal visiting. If she Is
in a hurry and wishes to attend a more
elaborate affair. or for church service, she
slips around her throat a collar of yellow
velvet, with a narrow plating of black at
the top, fastened to a chemisette of tucked
yellow velvet, inlaid with black satin rib
bon. A Bernhardt bow of fine yellow lace,
wired to stand out, and caught in the GEN.
ter by a brooch, finishes II.
With a pair of yellow gloves and pat
ent leather boots, she is sufficiently well
dressed to appear at eight out of ten &C.
casions.
The convenience of these fronts Is that
one does not nave to change the whole
bodice Just for this showing at the neck.
Any one can have a variety of these col
lars. and they give a dressy effect that
nothing else will do.
give these pointers to women who wear
tailor gowns, as I do not know that all
women are familiar with the transforma-
ton / have learned 1t by watching wom-
en of affairs who nav to make every min
ute count in their social lives.
The incoming tide of fashionable af-