The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-18
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WOMAN'S WORLD.

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sZin$ny times does a woman dress
ADDRESS during the day? asks Dor
hpIaddox in the Philadelphia In
Aa" The fashionable beauty need not
lXr.Let the poor. dear thing with only
ae really nice tailor-made gown to her
{iame, a couple of wrappers, a morning
Eiacket, a shirt or two and perhaps two
Nine frocks, say her say.
Y This woman is a type. As such she
t*rises up before me an accusing spirit
'kevery time I am inclined to harp on the
Subject of rest.
can seem to her liurying out of one
bet of clothes and into another. She
changes her attire a good half dozen
Zines a day, and sometimes oftener. She
IS. without exaggeration, dressily more
pverworked than any sister of hers in
fthe beau monde.
She begins the day in a wrapper. She
Noes this because she must do things"
Before breakfast. Experience has taught
Pier that any gown worn for one hour in
khe house is not ~presentable for the
street.
And after breakfast she slips out of the
rapper, kicks off a shabby pair of slip
and gets, with all possible dispatch
a. street rig. By the time clumpy
fare buttoned. a wrap and hat
Red, hands gloved and a market
red she feels as if she had been
nor twelve hours instead of two.
&he palpitates off to her market man
palpitates home again. She is hur-
very much hurried. Anybody can
this by the hunted look in her eyes
. two red spots on her cheeks.
Tome again, this housewife looks her.
over and concludes the street suit
1t come off, well-for a dozen reasons.
re are more things to be done and
#rould never in the world do to at
pit them starched up in this fashion.
&ne wrapper goes on again. Just as
settles down to some task she must
khnish a card is sent up and it belongs to
g. woman who would never III the world
| excuse the wrapper
! OFF goes the wrapper and on goes a
skirt and house Jacket. The caller stays
for a good sixty u 1t is getting
near lunch time, so jacket and skirt re-
main on.
Luncheon over, the owner of the skirt.
so far spotless and the jacket still in
freshest ribbons. remembers she must
wash and dress baby for his walk and
tlltI1 Sll l-l+ RAS oHag tAN ~ - s~~-
that has justscotae upstairs and then-she
won't ever try to think of the other
things that ought to be done before night
fall.
She shakes her stiff ~corsets. a treasured
silk pettieoat, her nice skirt and the
house jacket and gets back into an old
petticoat. easy shoes and the wrapper
There had been fond hopes of a fifteen
minutes nap, but the shadows gather all
too quickly and the busy one, before she
has had time to take a good long breath.
finds she must dress for dinner. Husvanu
always likes her to look spruce for the
late dinner.
There rs a quick survey of wardrobe
fnery. An old standby is twitched from
its peg. 1t is not half bad under gas
light. So it is put On just as a latch-key
is turned in the front door.
Dinner over husband beams. He has
a surprise for his dear one. Tickets for a
play she has wanted to see for a long
time. The tired little woman smiles as
as If the most delighted creature in the
universe. She feels if she does not keep
on smiling she shall dissolve in tears.
Then She is told to hurry and dress. As
IL she had not been hurrying and dressing
since she first got out of bedi She is q
wise little body, so cheerily sings out
s.AlI right. WI be ready in no time.
DEAR Goes to her room and drops IN
a chair and wishes she was a man that
she might use cuss words over her skinny
outfit, then rumages until she finds what
she wants, gets into her clothes on rail-
time. and when she is ready to start
"a as tuckered out as if she had helped
with a family wash.
A type is this harried one. A type who
might well be forgive if tempted to
throw things every time she is offered
silt-edge %rest-cures by
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A woman may not be especially de-
Evoted to children, says the Puritan" or
Heel any acute desire to possess them.
and yet, nine times out of ten, If she has
Ito take some small boy or girl shopping
hr walking, she will, half unconsciously,
begin playing mother.
There are certain ways of pulling down
little skirts and settling caps that are
distinctly parental and possessive, a man
ner of grasping small hands and answer
k,g shrill questions that proclaim to ali
8svorld, This is my jewell; for few
* can avoid a trace of self-conscious
stem treating the community to a
HSH61elr OHSpflIS- Pdt e q SPIN
~fnothssmall relative in charge, and
- lures. mother the most maudlin
Her lem all in her air and ges-
gent p
i've ye is a masterpiece of indul-
bible .aism, and If the unapprecia-
ion cAr shouts out an unmistak-
shoes., a look of sharp mortifica-
4rs4 her face. She buys little
ticks with an air of mature de-
Smpered by half humor-
kess, and the clerk, if she
business, asks questions about
he and smiles sympathetically
TALL garments.
may restrain herself from
re believe in the street, but
n~nterful of frilled caps or
e trousers, she is a moral
cannot resist the alluring
otherhood. She may love her
and exult in her freedom,
meath the eternal feminine is
elamoring for its birth right.
s,ylders is one beauty i'll
unnecessary. Any girl
"a little energy and will
ne herself straight and
W-rself a good carriage. 1t
natter of doing and perse-