The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-17

IN these days. IL tney Woulu Only pan
their summer dressing with an eye to ease
rather than style they'd soon find salts
factory solution. Keeping up with the
fashion in the matter Of dress is heating
process. Fortunately woman can look
stylish without doing so, and, further
more, she can look and keep cool.
Those who can afford to flee to a cool
summer resort as soon as the first hot
spell comes do not need 10 trouble them
selves about such trifes. They buy trunk
load after trunk load of beautiful cloth
ing, says the New York Sun, aud have
something suitable in weight and texture
for every change Of temperature from
the melting TO the freezing point Not so
with the stay-at-homes. who, through ne
cessity or choice, remain in the sub-baked
city or go to some resort where there IS
absolutely no dressing, as women are
wont to say of unfas hionable and mex
pensive places. A matron and two young
women met in the parlor of fashiona-
BILE department store recently to do some
shopping. But they got 10 talking and
almost forgot to make the rounds of the
shop One of the girls was tall, slender,
drawing voice.
II wish 1 had an allowance of cool
thousand a month" she remarked, and
then I'd take some interest in trying to
get my summer clothes together. AS it
IS I'll have next to nothing, but it really
doesn't matter much, I suppose, for we
can't afford TO bulge out Of town this
year. tell you it's a trying thing to be
respectable, bat poor. I'm discouraged.
This thing of keeping up appearances is
wearing me out. I've half mind not to
buy rag"
'fBosh and nonsense" exclaimed the
other girl, who was vivaclous and had
bright blue eyes. 'Id rather be dead
than without clothes. OF course 1t IS hard
TO get pretty things when one has no
money, and wouldn't know exactly how
TO go about it, but you know how eXquis-
ftely the bankrupt girls dress, and they
tell me that they dress out of the ragbag"
IT'S all very well to talk about dressing
out of the rag bag when it is filed with
magnificent materials and real laces," an
ewered the tall girl discontentedly. but
when your bag is filed with rags that
wouldn't be acceptable al a first-class pa
per factory, it's another thing. l m dead
poor, and what l want somebody to tell
ously. l don't believe such thing is pos
sible. Surely there is some way for a
poverty-stTicken woman to keep cool"
"Of course there is" answered the ma
tron, "if she only considers ease in dress
ing. Right here let me say that l DO not
approve Of these ragbag dresses. They are
like self-made men, an way. Don't you
know how proud a self-made man always
IS of his job, and how he is always an
nouncing the fact that he Is a self-made
man. as if his whole being did not bear
the stamp of a creator who is novice
Well these women who dress out of tie
Tagbag are much the same way. l ueVer
saw one yet who was not always ready to
brag about it, and I never saw one who
didn't look as If she did that very thing.
The shirt waist and the duck or linen skirt
have reVolutonized life for the poor wo
man, 1 think. l really believe that it is
possible for a poor woman to dress far
more comfortably in summer to attain far
greater ease in dressing, than it is for her
rich sister. She can buy her entire OUTFIT
with a view ID ease and not style. Ger
tanly there never was more comfortable
rig built for outdoor wear in hot weather
than the cotton shirt waist and wash skirt.
The shirt waist, II a woman can wear 1t
al all, is the most becoming bodice that
she can get. 1t shows the lines of the
figure, giving her a trim, neat appearance.
There never was such infinite variety in
in shirt waists this season. They are built
for every shape and size. We have the
plain, rather scant styles, with very long
waists for the TOO, too stout woman, and
we have those tucked around and gathered
very full for the slim, undeveloped figure.
There are thin. fluffy waists for the women
who can't wear severe tailor made gar
ments ana thick ones of pique, cotton
cheyiot, duck and the like for the stun
ming girl who looks best in stiff linen"
you can talk all you please about the
shirt waist" interrupted the girl with the
small income, but I consider il a very ex-
pensive article OF apparel One can't pos
sibly get along with less than eight, for
the beauty of a shirt waist lies in its inn
Inaculateness. Men like nothing better
than a waist fresh from the ironing board
and dislike nothing more than one that Is
crumpled and slightly soiled, so it takes
q lot TO do one. Then it is easier to find
hen with teeth than a lauLdr-ss who cah
do them properly so the Laundry bulls
amount TO something, ! can tell you. FL
Taily, it is impossible to get a pique or
Bingham waist made to order for less than
81, and I call that a heap of money TO put
in a negligee garment like a shirt waist
How full your head is of foolish no,
tons" exclaimed the matron. Now tell
Ine frankly, what do you think of the way
that dress?"
"You are always daintiness itself and
er girl.
II often envy YOU the allowance that
you have to put in Clothes" said The
other.
And it is even smaller than your very
small one" confessed the matron win a
merry, contented laugh. I've found tb.
secret of how 10 be comfortable. though
poor. didn't mean TO tell you. when We
got into this conversation, but l shall. I
dress with perfect ease and manage to
keep as COO as Western land breeze an
simmer, and l haven't been 10 a summer
resort in seven years either. How do 7
manage? This way: You see l am a
ready-made figure-that is. ready-made
things fit me, and they would You to, ."
turning to the tall girl That's The grea.
advantage for poor woman. I'd like 90
have my shirt waists made to order To
but / wouldn't dream Of being 50 extravs-
giant. My three best ones cost 50 eacn.
and felt dixie a spendthrift when ipdpio'
e6 in them. All the others cost &. 10 aacb