Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-08-31
MAKE A DL,ESS BOOK
GOOD REASONS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL
FASHION VOLUME.
A Woman May Know What Increases
or Diminishes the Size Of Her Waist
and should Know What Affects the
Chest Line.


Are you tired of cutting out fashion
ideas, pinring them TO the pincushlon
or tucking them into the mirror frame.
and losing them before you are ready
to use the hintsg
Then buy five cents worth of white
or ecrd wrapping paper, of the size
which will fold TO make the book most
convenient and agreeable for you TO
handle. Eighteen inches by twelve
are about the dimensions OF the white
paper sold ordinarily by druggists. and
the measures give a page of excellent
proportions for fashion purposes.
What you will make of this paper
eventually is your own fashion. or, bet
ter yet, costume book Every GOOD
housek"cper has her own Individual
cooking guide. No one volume ever
written is sufficient for the housewife
who has any creative ability.
From time 10 time the real house
keeper evolves novel methods and re-
ceipts. These she writes on the blank
leaves of her cook book. 10 Ice handed
along and improved by future genera
tions. The genuine houseSeeper is not
altogether ready made and never com
pletely learned.
There are good reasons for the IN
dIyidual fashion yOlumn. or the Dress
Book. as | prefer 90 call IL. confess
| start upon the arguments with hints
from mon The right sort of men look
down upon womep's fashions. The
same kind not only enjoy but require
pretty dressing 10y their women aSSo-
ciates.
Where is the pOiat of difference?
1t is a fact well known that the dress
or hat man once likes pleases him
until its hsefulnes is past. In or out
of style he enjoys what once has met
his fancy. Ear be ii from me to com
mend mems models of constancy in
any general sense without certain eN-
PLANTATION and apology. In matter of
dress | think we can learn much from
what, 3S well may be admitted, is
their blir6ly excellent taste. Blind be
cause no man other than few author
tiles knows the difference between
ruching and tucking. And il requires
an artist to tell just by shutting his
eyes whether pink and yellow go to-
gether.
A woman may know what line and
color increase or diminishes the size
of he- waist. She should understand
what raises or depresses the chest line.
She ought to knowi what length in
sleeves is ungainly. and that which in
skirts is awkward.
And to that end must the faculty of
comparison be cultivated. No person
may say To- woman: This is pretty;
that is ugly. | know why, and you
never can She is able To learn. even
as you anG L, as Kipling says. The pro-
cess is interesting and simple, gone
about trustingly. 1t is mere matter
of comparison: incidentally, of compil-
alton. Let every woman make her own
costume Look, clipping what appeals
to her wherever she sees it-unless
that should he i'm another's volume,
which Is misdemeanor-and FASTING
il on her own pages. with appropriate
comments as:
This is an ugly collar, for such and
such reason"
"Here is such back TO shirt as
seems incredible. for, look you. the line
of the form is disagreed with"
Or. as happens with the present
modes: "Thls skirt back Is immodest,
for so and So
The exercise of the perceptlve facul-
ties can find no greater common pleas
ure than in the estimate of woman's
dress. 7 here is joy in finding rea-
sons Tor these SO-calleu NHnlllpS Wnirn
exceeds any mere contemplation of the
styles.
So set to yourself Dress Book.
And buy for Ii common paper. such as
was mentioned ut the outset DO this
for several reasons. It is inexpensive;
I've cents buys lot. Keeping that size
n mind, 1t is always easy to find more
pages mt short distance and in the
most distaIt country postotlices Thus
one may add always to her Dress
Book. th jugh summering in the remote
paits,A wh,le Sunday supplements. with
fashion hints and other things. do not
penetrate before Tuesday.
After six months or year you have
YOUR D~rss Book bound-a most useful
work Of reference. testimony To your
industry and an heirloom for curious
grandchildren. Which last may or may
not concern you. But think how our
grandma, hers conclusions about needle
work, as expressed In their samplers;
about cooking, as told in their faded
writing IN little old memorandum
books, endlessly delights us.