The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-09
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WOMAN'S WORLD.

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take an outing. There was never a time
when we We're SO snugly fixed in the
matter of dress, says Dorothy Maddox in
the Philadelphia inquirer" We have
one taffeta skirt made. 1t is very ruffly,
and the ruffles are edged with lace or
velvet or satin ribbon. And sometimes
the frills climb half way up our back
and sometimes they fiaunt around our
foot hem.
The taffeta weighs next to nothing. 1t
is blue-black and that grandmother of
ours would AVE thought it a prize. In
her day old ladies wore taffeta. Today
we who are giddiest insist upon this all
around material for one dress skirt at
least.
And then we fold it into a dress suit
case along with a few shirt waists of
white. 1t all depends upon the outing
A short run from town does not call
for much if the little is wisely chosen.
There may be a delicious looking Liberty
satin that is speckless. One or more deli
cate things in sheerest batiste and one
substantial affair in silk or pique.
We start from home for the train In
tailor skirt and shirt, with jacket thrown
over our arm. In the dress suit case are
some pretty t%ri1es, things for the throat,
surely a half dozen.
A veil or two extra, wash leather gloves,
with one pair for special occasions; lots
of kerchiefs. and we are all right.
What else is needed? A night dress,
a tiny dressing sacaue, with hairpins ana
powder. cold cream and pins.
The case weighs next to nothing. We
feel so perfectly independent with the
stylish grip in our hands. and we can visit
in sweet contentment so long as that
same suit case is in sight.
of course we can travel with a storage
house in our wake. for the new trunks
are mammoth and fitted up with almost
as many conveniences as a dressing room.
Once upon a time we thought If we
owned a Saratoga we were in luck. The
trunk which carts our finery this season
is large enough to throw our commodious
trunk of several years ago completely in
the shade.
I should think poor, overworked ladies'
maids would bless the t~runkmakers, for
they have spared them many hours OF
hard labor at the ironing board.
Things never or rarely come out of the
fashionable woman's trunk in any state
but a perfect one. But, as usual, what IS
one mans meat is another's poison. The
poor porters who tug these horrible ex-
travagances from place to place must
have a time of it.
Think of our great grandmother, VINO
serenely left home with bonnet box In
hand. a giddy thing lowered upon the
outside and ample in its ~rotundity.
What would she say to the corners pro-
vided for our millinery-corners where It
can be slowed so that it may go a thou
sand miles without one sign OF having
left its mistress wardrobe.
AS for bags, they are positive things or
beauty. Many of them are finished with
aluminium. This iightens the weight OF
the bag very much. For one night stays
a bag will do nicely. 1t does not possess
the facilities of the suit case, for things
in a bag must be rolled. This brings them
out mussy. and to travel with min at
rest mussiness is to be avoided
Wherever we go 1t is well to reject use
less traps. We really can do with so
much less than. we think we can. I had
a. friend who went to New YORK TO see
her husband off to Europe.
AS the time drew near for the final
goodbye she grew more and more melan-
choly and finally just before the gang
plank was hauled in she made for nus
bands cabin, and there she stayed until
the great ocean greyhound passed the
pilots boat.
To hear her tell how nicely she crossed
in the clothes ON her back, with one extra
shirt waist and a nightgown, is to see
how woman can get along if she pleases
the smallest quantity of clothes. l
remember this same lady crossing with
me the summer before, and I am sure
she dressed like a doll. Her steamer
trunk must have been stuffed with lovely
little changes. She was no doubt weeks
getting them together, and she would
have been Mortified if she had been told
that at some time she would go from New
York to Southampton with less articles
of apparel than she would take for a
night out of town.
We all know the old adagel about the
econtended mind and the Continued
feast but I doubt If we all realize that
the cheerfulness which springs from a
contented mind is a feast in which outsid-
ers participate even more freely than the
happy possessor of the sanguine tempera-
ment.
This is how it comes about. When once
you get a reputation for being bright and
cheerful. your friends not only look to you
as a sort of perpetual mental tonic, but
they are apt to resent as a personal grlev-
ance the fact of your not always being
up to the usual pitch.
It is so hard for the elder sister, who
makes common cause with her schoolboy
brothers, to be told she is Jolly cross be-
cause her heart is heavy for once, and
they would not understand even If she
told them. Or, again. the one who is the
life and soul of the party is blamed for
the social evening having hung fire on
some particular occasion when nature re-
beleId against playing the part of uni
versal amuser."
1.-THE CHEEKY SOUL is always receiving
invitations to go and cheer some one up
and though it is a joy to comfort those
who are in real trouble, to feel that your
presence acts like a ray of sunshine In a
sunless place. to be able to call up smiles
instead of signs. merriment instead of
melancholy. on the other hand it is trying
TO be summoned by a friend who is "-n
the blues" from mere idleness, a surfeit
of gayety. or some other form of self-in-
diligence. and to feel that, not only are
YOU expected to sympathize with her tale
of self-created woes. but also to create a
diversion for her who has so much more
....t ,,d nlaa eIire in her life than you