El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
Good LininqS.

To be really satisfied with ones
clothes demands that each garment be
properly lined. for then and then only
Is al enduring. good fit obtained. VIVA,
amistake many make in declaring IL is
. nonsense to pay this or that amount
for Innings and findings. They are sub
stituted by cheap atfairs-materials
bold in stiff dressing, whale bone i'm
itations, which IL is known will split,
in bindings which no salesman will
warrant, and all to save about a dollar
in the entire purchase. No one can
dispute that there is a conscious com
fort in q costume which is silk-lined.
Not only is the soothing swish and
frou-frou music to the ear, but its
spring, it's lightuess, and its maintain
ing its proper hang and place should
be considered Indispensable. III a
thing Ia worth doing, il is worth do
ing we'll, applies with concise truth
when IL comes to a matter OF Innings.
While we are more above the delusion
of prettiuess in color than the Indians
on the frontier, who select suits OF
store clothing" by the gsudy Innings.
we are not altogether blind to the real
comfort of q daintily finished garment,
even though it gladdens no eye but
our own.
AT odd little times in our lives we
unconsciously create lasting impress
sions, and IL Is worth our trouble TO be
known as meat woman, If we never
aspire to greatness.
A sad-faced cripple, one hopelessly
distorted and robbed of every trace of
beauty or winning grace, sat opposite
the writer for long ride on west
bound car. One could readily see why
she made no effort u be comedy in any
particular-the result must have been
mockery--aud she showed the
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pale gray cloth, shaped in no effort to
conceal her deformities, but to palliste
them as might be possible. Her hat
and gloves were in the same tender,
wistful coloring, and her shoes were of
fine, soft kid, but made no pretensious
to style. When she arose and stepped
of the car had a glimI se, as it were,
OF the sweet secret OF her life. Her
innate refinement, her deep, keen love
of the beautiful, was as patent to me as
IL declared by word of mouth, for the
plain, prim skirt was lined with the
most delicious shade of rose pink
rustling silk, and the underskirts we're
finished with surprisingly beautiful
needlework and lace. 1t was just q
glimpse, then the ground was reached,
and the strange, twisted figure in its
sober gray was lost in the vortex OF
two busy thorCughfares, but L tried to
fancy what her owl room was like, and
L seemed to see fresh, frsgant flowers,
and an artistic selection of art and
beauty-for she surely possessed them
in the sanctum where her personal self
drew no harsh comparisons with her
more fortunate fellowbeings.
A frayed skirt binding has sent a
chill OF suspicion through mans
heart seen upon the woman he has ide-
allied as the queen rose in u garden of
loneliness. There is little excuse for
bad edges now since the labor of re-
newing has been so greatly reduced,
and in q short time, with little eX
pense, the edge is good as new.
The question of skirt lining involves
the whole existence OF the garment.
for il something stifily dressed is selec-
ted, Just rs 90 on as the stiffness wears
out, down comes the skirt, as does
burst balloon, and the erstwhile ripples
and flutes become limp flaps out OF
hang and place all around. IL is far
better to use something which, at the
end of the season, will look almost the
same.
Featherbone, wires, ribs and kindred
extenders are relegated to the back
ground, and since skirts are narrower
their use is dead. Nothing could De
more grotesque than skirt which time
and atmospheric action has sbrunken
away from an extended edge, which, in
att ompting TO conform TO the alt .red
circumstance, presents series of he oks
and crooks, of most unlovely lines.
The dust ruffle assumes more and
more Importance. 1t is single or runs
up to four or five overlapping frills,
which may be ma lie with a pinked or
hemmed edge. The former is prettier,
more easily busted, and wears quite as
well. For street and service, ruffies
are left off and rainy-day skirts are
often finished with velvet-faced mack
intosh bindings.
Sleeve lining is no longer problem
but for summer gowns tsIet IN is some
times inserted in she small, puffy full
ness at the shoulder. 1t is 81 inches
wide, and sells for about DC per
yard.
Waist Innings, except for very
heavy garments, should be soft, strong
and OF rather light weight. Such kinds
as do not stretch are much to be pre-
ferred, as only portion of the strain
of the garment Is imposed upon them
as, after all, the fit of the basque de-
ponds upon the manipulation OF the
outside material.