The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-01
Stockings on Their Arm..

Stockings on Their Arms.
in addition to theScustomary position bv
many girls this winter. Like many things
zone III the interest of economy, the prac-
tlce IS Kept secret, from escorts, at least,
out just 60 into woman's dressing room
at party or dance and anybody who
mas 50 much as half an eye can See Not
every woman can afford to have long,
warm evening wrap with fur-lined
sleeves to wear with low-necked,: short
themselves with pulling heavy warm
stockings minus their feet. on over their
bare arms. Escorts little dream of the
display of hosiery under coats that has
been made this winter.
This wearing Of stockings to protect
b beee arms trnng is i ne" says girl who has
this season, and l lay it all to the stock
ings. Wouldn't the men laugh if they
knew that? You see it was this way:
Last winter and the winter before I
never dreamed. that could go out in full
dress without a carriage One night last
fall man called to take me to recep-
ton without a sign of a carriage. Mother
positively funny, for we both had OH our
most sparse evening gowns. We held a
consultation and tigared that we would
hurt this mans feelings if we telephoned
for a cab. So we decided to make the
best of it. The idea came to me to cover
our arms with stockings and our necks
with knit wooden shawls and to slip dark
skirts over our light gowns. We did so
and went to the reception in the cable
car. We were as warm as bugs in rug
and had a real jolly time, and the man.,
who is struggling author. was $40 in
Imagine my amazement when we got in
the dressing room, which was crowded
with women. and found half of 'em with
stockings on their arms. They'd come in
the cars, too. That settled it with me. |
saw that it was possible to go out in full
dress comfortably without carriage and
| made my mother tell my friends when
they asked me- out that 1 positively re-
fused to go in a carriage. The result?
Oh, I've had more invitations to go out
this winter, more escorts and more steady
beaux, as our second girl puts it, than
any girl in my set. &~,- Ills
=; s. Engaged COUPLES. ssE -
The behavior of engaged couples in So
ciety towards each other and their
friends varies greatly. Some of them act
as if they wished to make themselves as
conspicuous as possible. They never
leave one another's side, talk together in
low whispers, dance every time with
each other, and, when not dancing, sit
out together in tea room or corridor-in
fact, conduct themselves in such a mall-
ner that they are spectacle and a
laughing stock to the whole room. Is it
any wonder that the friends and rela-
tivses of such foolish pair as this
feel ashamed and make the engagement
last MS short n time as nOSSih!p2
Others again there are who act upon
quite the opposite plan, and from shyness
OR from some cause Or another avoid
each other in public so pointedly that
they attract attention almost as much as
do the ''over-fond." Moreover, this acted
Indifference gives occasion for unkind re-
| marks, and it does not do for any of us
to forget that society's tongue can be
very sharp and often speak words that
leave cruel sting behind. The middle
course in this, as in most others, is the
best. Those in authority should neither
grant too much nor too little freedom,
and the engaged couple, on their side,
should remember that there are other
! people to be considered as we'll as them
selves. They may be '.all the world to
one another, but custom, good feeling
| that to neglect the little courtesies and
rules of social life is always a sign OF
selfshness or il-breeding Neither man
| nor woman need or ought to be ashamed
of true and honest affection nor dis
loyal, even in seeming, to his or her
| plighted troth; but a certain moderation
and reserve is surer sign of real love
than the 'obtrusive parade" which
| some engaged couplestsseem to 4consider
the correct thing When the latter course
| is pursued, the onlooker-even the least
cynical-is apt to murmur to himself,
''The lady doth protest too much, me-
| thinks" To display what should be her
deepest and most sacred feelings before
the public gaze is, to say the least, not
| only an exhibition of bad taste, but an
| ofense against that feminine reserve and
maldenly modesty which nature has be-
stoyed upon woman as her best gift and
| truest safeguard.-Philadel Times.
To Prevent Spring lis. q
After the mild winter, sickness is likely
to prevail through the changeable spring
which follows. ( Irrita BILE conditions, run.
| ming into zulcerated sore threats and scar
| latina, are. swhist&We have to; dread with
children. q When these evils are upon us
| what is the advice Of boards of health ?
Take up carpets, take down draperies of
| all sorts, keep the patient in an airy room,
give lightest and most nutritious. food pos
sible. :;zs - e x - :.
Keep lighted fires and burn sulphur
| through the house. All this is just: as eff
! fective by~way of precautionary, ten
times better. Then why not put the
household s@on preventive measures at
| once? Keep the fires in or ready to start
at moments notice morning and even
| ing, till May is out. Many a family has
saved a ton of coal and been glad to pay
| from $40 to $50 doctors bill in conse-
quence. Take down all draperies from
! windows to. lnantels. They have to be
cleaned anyhow. and heaven knows how
much dust and diseased air clings to their
folds In otherwise we'll ordered houses,
! where ventilation is looked on with sus--
picion, the stagnant, yitiated air of bed
rooms penetrates to other rooms and set
ties in hooks and corners, becoming the
| finest kind Of disease culture bed. Out
| with them, if not to the wash, then to the
! drying closet for a two hours baking IN
| hot air, or to the open air, and sun, SOW
ereign germicide,. for all the sunny hours
of a week, until the fabric smells fresh as
if newly washed. Then, and not till then,
take them down and fold directly, will,
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