Evening journal., 1898-11-17
NIGHTcAps ARE COMING.
aumor Has n That the old FashfoI
I'm ucadEenr ~ TO he Re-
vivcd by Women.


Nightcaps are coming. There is no
particular reason assigned for their
revival. IL is a mere caprice of the
ficltle Dame Fashion. The fashionnow-
ndays 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 u nightcap are now wondering
how they will look. The nightcap was
familiar enough TO the people OF
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 arc formed by
the reference found in the novels of
homely English life. Mr.. PickwiclS
wore a nightcap, and so did the wom-
an into whose room he got by mistake
one night. Mrs. NiclSleby's nightcap
was much in evidence. She thought
good deal OF It and gave her son her
ideas on the subject.
People may say what they like"
observed Mrs. Nickleby on one oeea-
sion, "but there Is a good deal Of COM
fort IN a nightcap, as / am sure you
would confess, Nicholas, my dear, IL
YOU would only have the strings to
yours and wear II like a Christian, in
stead of sticking it up on the very top
Of your head like a buecoat boy. You
needn't think IL unmanly or quiz
zicnl 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 i'm 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 IL is admitted on all
hands, that they know what is good
aud 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. MCKEE
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 clscno 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
E proves the hair 20 sleep with covered
. head"
The interested looks OF the other
+ girls were intense until one of them
? declared vigorously; ~ .-r,o
q whoever said that was either some
, old woman who leaves her hair on her
{ dressing table at night and wears caps
! to conceal the fact from her pillow, OF
one OF those novelty seekers who
doesn't know anything OF hygiene, hail
p culture. or the like. Why, you al
ought 10 know. II you don't that The
p worst thing IN the world is to smother
your hair in covering at night. 4
T. wcll-groomcd head OF hair one would
have II 10 we're twisted together tight
~ an day and at night bundled up il
the close space Of a linen or muslin
n capi You can pose It upon your top
{ knot with all tho coquetry Of a French
I millinery poem, but the fact remaini
:, that it IS a superhuous and harmless
I addition 10 your toilet"
T. And then and there every ono in the
= group resolved 10 do without night
3 caps whether IL be fashionable or no
p to wear them. But whether they viii
o keep their vows or not depends upoi
; whether the fashion becomes general
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