Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29


as If the historic lady who wore rings on
her fingers and bells on her toes had come
to town and taken possession of IL. The
! belt is largely responsible for the popularity
OF the chatelaine. A white leather belt.
with gold serpent for its buckle. has
nude LOOK unless there hangs from It's lett
nide gold rhateane shaped like the half of
a deyil.f fish, with the long gold chains from
eneh of his points tipped by some gold toy,
There the key in gold of my lady'S jewel
Guse and the kew, also in gold of my lady's
ffayeling bag; there's golden set OF tablets
Hf,d golden pencil. with star sapphire set
IN the end, that doesn't write; there's tiny
1Kold walnut that opens and shows wee
little powder puff there's pair Of gold scis-
sors. a gold penknife, gold scent bottle
fsOme odd gold coins, indeed any little trifle
That costs lot of money and that may come
4 n a basket of roses with somebody's COM
iments for somebody else's chatelaine. In
|31ddition to the chatelaine, there is, tucked
4way in the belt, a small purse OF knitted
fpd, but it IS the end of the long thin
Hrban that, is about the neck. And then
( ~ ere's the chatelaine watch. 1t may match
"a the other belongings, or /: may abso-
jptely contrast with them, but as time means |
to''the summer girl, since she has !
tfains to catch, il must be a watch that goes, |
|N@h Paris every gold chatelaine has all It's tiny
7 Belongings studded with the gem that my |
ndy has selected for special wear this season. |
+ Perhaps she has chosen the ruby, the gem
that signifies intense love; perhaps she has
selected emeralds because they will bring |
her good health perhaps the glittering. ever
changing catseye is her choice, for II Will
fetch her good luck. or prettiest of all. she
may take the turquoise, that perfect blue
cool looking gem, because 1T will make her
friends true to her; but whichever has been
her choice it must appear in the handle of
her parasol, the brooch at her neck, the
rings on her fingers. the buckles on her
shoes. the comb i'll her hair, as well as the
necklace that encirces her pretty neck.
The French woman is nothing il not con-
sistent, and when she chooses color or
gem IL reigns triumphant until another cap
rice causes her 10 cast it aside and forget it.
The most severe critic of the belongings of
womanknd is the laundress. She gauges
ones social position as we'll as the length OF
ones purse by the kind of underwear she
has II in her power to make beautiful or
otherwise. Too often she prefers that they
snail be otherwise, and rags and rips and
bits of torn lace are all that represent much
money and the aundress strength of hand
One bit of machine sewing on fine under
wear, and your laundress disapproves of
YOU The young woman who has decorated
her belongings with tucks done by the sew
ing machine had better do her own washing
and develop the muscles of her arms II she
wishes to retain in the eyes OF her laundTess
the position which is hers by right: The
wise maiden has but few pieces OF each
kind of underwear. but her lingerie is fine of
Its kind. and whethei she chooses to wear
linen cambria, silk, nainsook or lawn the
sewing must be of that wonderful Kind
which is done in the convent else. being
equally fine the work of some decayed gem
tlewoman who Is paid very good price for
it, While the silk petticoat has retained its
vogue fine materials that wash better than
silk are chosen for garments that must touch
the skin. But, oh. the wonderful petit
coats The very latest, which is as carefully
fitted as ii it were glove, being smooth
ABOUT the hips and faring below the knees,
is of pale gray and lavender changeable silk,
with its front aud sides hand embroidered
in hower,de-luce in white. silver and gold
thread. Every stitch of the embroidery IS
done by hand, and the flowers are so close
together that il seems as If they must be
brocaded in the silk rather than worked on
it. Its COST Well, it costs more than many
diamond ring, though nothing ike US
much as q political position, 1t may be
bought for $3.50.
PITY It's, It's true, but al the seaside or in
the mountains there is really the most per.
fectly open and general use of powder aud
rouge imaginable There was time when
the women who INDUCED in such doubtful
ii luxuries did 1t very secretly and trusted
that nobody knew about it, but all that has
been changed, Nowadays mademoiselie'
best Young man does not hesitate to tell her
n that she looks a little tagged out and that
II he thinks lust a touch of rouge would
IA improve her appearance, or il he decides
N she has too much on he will walk her of tc
IA some quiet corner tell her so, and taxing
49, out his immaculate linen handkerchlet
idantily shade it of for her. Some girls
are adopting fashion peculiar TO English
women aud rouging themselves quite up tC
Nfheir eyes. II is IA fashion that is nelthel
pretty nor refined The English girl lack:
tbe American girls ability TO make up hel
face artistically, and the American girl, be
lieving herself clever. copies stupidity
Some of the so-called beauties are made iC
have such burning red compilations tina
they look as if an apoplectic stroke wer
Imminent and remind one of the ladies il
"a the heather lands who refused to receiy,
any articles of civilized wearing apparel ex
t s cept the stays. Then each required thu
j services of two strong warriors To pull then
NN sufficiently tight to suit them, and the glov
4 they got in their faces and the size thei
n waists proclaimed answered exactly to thos
WI of smart girl well known among the Fou
E Hundred.
Missionaries attempt to say that tigh
Ia lacing women are dying out, but don't bt
II n lieve that women die from oyerlacng. The
grow ugly-they certainly do-their nose
H get red. their skins have muddy look, an,
y A their eyes lose their luster, but they don
"a die. Providence keeps them on earth a
H horrible examples My own especial fad
TYP that wel-ftting corset is a JOY forever
i4 but when it comes to wearing those mol
NJ rible corded waists or health bodices /
8 which one is bound 10 wrigg.e fee temple
W to ask, "Why should woman wrigSle !
III Inefe Is certainly uOlulllb pltttN ~ wv ~
and ii she were child she would IN
doubleday receive what in my younSt
"a days was known as a warming up IL
behaving in such way. Every woma
should hold her body easily and ~
4 affectedly and be properly supported. 1t
an odd thing, but the disappearance of
corset usually means the rapid following {
everything else that is feminine, includin
IA the knowledge Of what is right and what
ID wrong. never met q crank i'll my Lie
VA crank on the subject of dress or tree low
W. of doing away with babies or letting me
'H stay at home and rock the cradlc-who hs
M not begun her downward career by chstil
III away her stays. Just as soon as SON
I" pretty girl who has au exceptionally sma
+" waist appears on the scene the sossips
~ the hotel announce that she laces. As
f that were crimel The normal America
girl has a small waist. Nature general
gives her good figure, hut all the womt
who have lost their figures through age
carelessness insist upon downing the OF
woman whose shape is good. III the oil
M old DAYS the scandalmonger used to have
n have TO sit in the stocks. What pity thu
U don't revive that custom now
III Women say the most horrible thin
about women without tlinching, and q
III summer SUM- which makes all the wee
H spring up seems to bring the scand;
monger to the fore with them. It's mo-
~ of Your business and it's none OF mi
a where a woman gets her clothes, but that
II favorite question OF the disseminator
7" news at the summer hotel. It's none
81 your business and it's none of mine WI
N and what people are as long as they beha
themselves properly in public and don't