The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-29
for 1Monnen.

mer.r writes a Bryn Mawr Junior, and
my first investment Of the proceeds VIII
be in a dress suit case.
This goes to prove that one more
article belonging to the man has been
adopted by the woman.
He has had the dress suit case as his
sole property so far, and has reveled IN
its convenience as he did In his cigar, be-
lieving both equally only masculine
privileges. Then sisters began to borrow
and their eyes opened.
Instead of cramping their best SILK
bodice in q small valise, they found TO
their delight that it would lie out straight
in the dress suit case and needed no
smoothing iron at the end OF the journey
So they borrowed again, and yet again.
TIL the brothers rose up in their wrath
and demanded that girls get their own
And the girls have been quick to take
their advice.
To-day every fiji de steele maiden owns
her dress suit case, or. as in the case OF
the Bryn Mawr Junior. is finding ways
and means to buy one.
And they are q comfort. One OF siza-
BILE proportions Is no more awkward TO
carry than a valise, and hold a deal more
and to better advantage. for as profess
sional packers say: 1T is not how tight
you pack. but how you pack. that ruins
or saves your clothes"
A dress suit case holds a change OF
linen. a pair of slippers, an extra bodice,
two shirt waists and a silk petticoat-
This does not count the little things
in the way of collars. ties. stockings
and ribbons that can be rolled in cor
ners.
i knew a girl who went away for W
days and she took in that case an even
ing waist, a black satin skirt, a ging-
ham gown, a cotton shirt waist, a change
of linen and a pair of dancing slippers.
Added to this were toilet articles. gloves
and collars.
1t was a bit TOO much of a load for alb
solute lack of crushing, but she needed
those changes and she secured them.
Now an institution that will help one
so gracefully out in such an emergency
is indeed too great a boon to be con-
fined to one sex. Women have philoso-
phized thus, andthey are acting upon It.
As for the cost.
They are not so expensive as some
valises, but the best of each rank alike
Five dollars purchases a very sizable,
well-made case, six gets a still better one.
and ten will obtain a lovely affair.
Since women lave taken to them, the
leather men are catering to feminine
fancy.
Different shades of color are being used,
the most artistic of which is olive green,
However. no taste goes far wrong which
adheres to the rich Russian leather in
it's uncolored state. 1t has proved itself
less liable to show the abuses of time
and the baggage mcmillan other shades
Have the name or initials put in good
black letters on the bottom There is
no use blazoning to the public on steam
boat or train who YOU are, by your sign
at the side of the case
You only want the name for identtica-
ton. and you can as easily find it at the
bottom as the side.
All these things the woman has set
tied very satisfactory; she has even de-
cided she can carry it without the aid of
a paid messenger-but what of the name?
VIII she continue to call it a dress suit
case when 1t never contains a dress SUIT
Will she give the suggestion of her per-
sonal adjournment consisting OF trousers
and swallow-tail whenever she travels2
What is she going to do about the
name?
The occupation of little Miss Wren,
of Mutual Friend, celebrity. is still a
paying one. Dolls dressmaktng is en-
tered into more widely each year. And
each year also the w-age-earning tips a
better point in the scale
The best money results are arrived at
by conducting business in a small pri-
waite way, The Lilliputian outfits are
disposed of at Women's Exchanges,
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circles md, more often still, by private
orders solicited in ones own neighbour
hood
Not every woman is capable for the
work and the market is open for other
workers. The occupation is ideal for in
valids, shut-ins and women house bound
by family duties whose purse is not
what it should be.
Some little practice will be necessary
on the part of the tyro before money
rewards are sure. Your doll dressmaker
must be well posted on the varying
modes of each season, as the doll of the
present is most thoroughly up-to-date.
However, even the invalid woman is able
to keep herself wide-awake in this regard
by subscriptions to journals which treat
the fashions.
Every article to which the modern
doll lays claim, from a hat to a hand
kerchief, is designed n fabricated by
the really clever artist in this line.
Exquisite neatness is one requirement
which is absolute in the trade. And good
taste a second.
Money payments vary. They depend
upon the number of pieces in the outfit.
the cost and excellence of materials used
and also upon the purchaser.
Ten dollars is no unusual price for a
pretty rousseau in which inexpensive
lace, etc., have been used. For the rich
outfits of some of last winters dolls the
costumer's fee was s. and upward
For the woman who feels herself
adapted to this work there could be no
better time than the present. The
Christmas trade is but five months off
and stock should be laid in to meet it.
The liberty and freedom of action al
lowed young girls of today is the sub
iect of a forcible editorial by Edward w.
Box in the August Ladies Home Jour-
NAL, That everything In life is tending
to make people freer in thought and ac-
ton is undoubtedly true, and 1t is a
healthful tendency in the main-healthful
for people Of years and self-control,"
writes Mr.. Box. But no advantage is
without It's disadvantages. The freer our