Evening journal., 1898-10-31
NIGHTcAPs ARE COMING.
aumor Has IL That the old Fashion
I'm HendEenr Is 60 be Re-
vIved by Women.


Nightcaps are coming. There is no
particular reason assigned for their
revival. 1t is aAmere caprice of the
tickle 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 q 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 are formed by
the reference found in the novels Of
homely English life. Mr.. Pickwick
wore 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.
"Pcople may say what they like
observed Mrs. Nickleby on one ocea-
sion, "but there is a good deal okcom-
fort i'm a nightcap, as l am sure you
would confess, Nicholas, my dear, II
you would only have the strings to
/ Yours and wear it like q Christian, in
/ stead of sticking it up on the very top
of your head like bluecoat boy. You
needn't think it unmanly or quiz
zical thing to be particular about your
/ nightcap, for | have often heard your
poor dead papa and the Reverend Mr.
| What's who used 10 read
prayers in that old church with the
curious little steeple that the weather
cock was blown of the night week be
fore you were born-I have often heard
them say that the young men at col
lege arc uncommonly particular about
their nightcaps, and that the Oxfor'
nightcaps are quite celebrated fcl
their strength and goodness; so mrel
so. indeed, that the young men nevcl
dream Of going to bed without the a
and I believe that it is admitted on al
hands. that they know what is goo'
aud don't coddle themselves"
The kind of nightcap they used a
Oxford is still in vogue among msn
ANY woman who doesn't understand !
can ask her husband. But the othe
sort, like the good, simple Mrs Nickle
by wore, have been entirely out o
fashion until just now, when they ar
reported to be about to regain thei
former vogue.
The chief thing women are askin
about nightcaps just now is whethe
they are becoming. a group of girl
we're discussing this question tn
: other day when one Of them declare
her opposition to the new fad.
"Of course they are becoming"
was agreed, or else no woman woul
! think of wearing them. One of tho'
in the party told thSt she had hear
a report that some one had recon
. mended them because they say it in
: proves the hair TO sleep with eovere
2 head"
= The interested looks of the othC
girls were intense until one of the
declared vigorously:
+. "Whoever said that was either SON
old woman who leaves her hair on he
a dressing table at night and wears cal
: to conceal the fact from her pillow, {
= one of those novelty seekers WI
q doesn't know anything of hygiene, ha
p culture, or the like. Why, you q
; ought to know, if you don't, that Il
r. worst thing in the world is to smoth
- your hair in a covering at night.
II well-groomed head of hair one wou
h have If it were twisted together tigh
= ly al day and at night bundled mp
: The close space of a linen or musl
10 cap! You can pose it upon your to
N knot with all the coquetry of Fren'
,r millinery poem, but the fact renal
% that il is a superhuous and harmle
4 addition to your.toilet."
b And then and there every ono in 4
y group resolved to do without nigl
D. caps whether it be fashionable or n
r TO wear them. But whether they W
,e keep their vows or not depends upr
y whether the fashion becomes gener
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