Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-10-27
No. az
NIGHTCAPS ARE COMING.
Runor Has Ii That the Old Fashiez
In HeadSear Is to Be Re-
viyed by Women.

Nightcaps are coming. There is no
particular reason assigned for their
revival. 1t is mere caprice of the
tickle Dame Fashion. The fashion now
adays seems to be to revive old FASH
ions, and perhaps that is the reason
for the newest freak.
Fair young women who have never
seen n nighteap are now wondering
how they will look. The nightcap was
familiar enough to the people of o
generation or two ago, but there are
few women who are willing to admit
that they have ever seen one. The
ideas of the majority of the people of
to-day on the subject are formed by
the reference found in the novels of
homely English life. Mr.. Pickwick
wore a nightcap, and SO did the wom-:
an into whose room he got by mistake
one night. Mrs. Nickleby's nightcap
was much in evidence. She thought a
good deal of it and gave her son her
ideas on the subject.
People may say what they like,
observed Mrs. Nickleby on one >occa-
sion, ''but there is a good deal of COM
fort in nightcap, as l am sure you
would confess, Nicholas, my dear, IL
you would only have the strings to,
yours and wear it like Christian, I'M
stead of sticking it up on the very top
of your head like bluecoat boy. You
needn't think it unmanly or o quiz
zical thing to be particular about your
nightcap, for have often heard your
poor dead papa and the Reverend Mr..
What's-his-name, who used to read
prayers in that old church with the
curious little steeple that the weather
cock was blown off the night week be-
fore you were born-I have often heard
them say that the young men at col
lege are uncommonly particular about
their nightcaps, and that the Oxford
nightcaps are quite celebrated for
their strength and goodness; so much
so. indeed, that the young men never
dream of going to bed without them,
and believe that it is admitted on all
hands, that they know what is good
and don't coddle themselves"
The kind of nightcap they used at
Oxford is still in vogue among men.
Any woman who doesn't understand it
can ask her husband. But the other
sort, like the good, simple Mrs. Nickle-
by wore, have been entirely out of
fashion until just now, when they are
reported to be about to regain their
former vogue.
The chief thing women are asking
about nightcaps just now is whether
they are becoming. A group of girls
were discussing this question the
other day when one of them declared
her opposition to the new fad.
''Of course they are becoming" it
was agreed, or else no woman would
think of wearing them. One OF those
in the party told that she had heard
a report that some one had recon-
mended them because "they say it i'm
proves the hair to sleep with covered
head"
The interested looks of the other
girls were intense until one of them
declared vigorously:
"Whoever said that was either some
old woman who leaves ner hair on her
dressing table at night and wears caps
to conceal the fact from her pillow, or
one of those novelty seekers who
doesn't know anything of hygiene, hair
culture, or the like. Why, you all
ought to know, II you don't, that the
worst thing in the world is to smother
your hair in a covering at night. A
well-groomed head of hair one would
have if it were twisted together tight
ly an day and at night bundled up in
the close space of a linen or muslin
cap! You can pose it upon your top
knot with all the coquetry of q French
llinery poem, but the fact remains
tn. = is superfuous and harmless
addition to your toilet"
And then and there every ono in the
group resolved to do without night
caps whether it be fashionable or not
to wear them. But whether they win
keep their vows or not depends upon
whether the fashion becomes general.
Chicago Times-Herald.