The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-29
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1t isn't because we are growing aCCuS-
toned to seeing them, but because they
are prettier than ever and are worn
with much mere taste and care, They
used to be horrid, ill-fitting things with
long Tapping yokes and queer collars.
Then women had not solved the prob
lem of causing the shirt waist and the
skirt to be on friendly terms in the
back. Now it is the exception to see
anything but nice neat joining of the
two. No more untidy safety pins and
sagging skirt bands. 1 do believe the
bicycle is in part responsible for
this. The bicycle girl found it abso-
lutely necessary to have an unmis-
taxable firmnCss of purpose in the fas-
tening of her skirt and shirtwaist in
the back as well as in guiding her
wheel. There had to be no halfway
measures, hence a system of hooks and
fastenings that gradually migrated to
all skirts worn with a shirt waist. They
don't hump up in the back any more
and they don't sag ut the band.
I;ut the woman who wears a shirt
waist correctly cannot dress in hur-
rY. There are details to giving the
proper effect that take time and a lot
of it. Unless she is millionairess and
has an infinite supply of sleeve buttons
and studs, continual changing of these
appurtenances is demanded. Then there
is the belt. OF course she does not
wear a leather belt any more unless
she lives somewhere afar from civili-
cation and consequently she must have
an appalling assortment OF ribbons
The white ones are most used and
therefore must be more frequently re-
newed, and there must be many other
shades to match the waists, for it she
wants to secure the. lOng-waisted effect
now in vogue she must wear a belt as
nearly the color of the shirt waist as
possible and not like the skirt. rhis
means a frequent change of buckles
unless she can afford a dozen sets, and
all this takes time. Oh, the woman
! who dresses in haste shows it when
she starts oYt in shirt waist.
1t will not be many seasons until the
men are wearing shirt waists. You
just wait and see. In fact may we all
be there to see. Poor things. I'm sure
they would be sensible If they adopted
such attire any hot day. The problem
which agitates the cOatless man is his
suspenders Everybody knows he has
to wear 'Cm if he wants to be comfort
able and happy in his mind, but some
unWritten law states that they are i'm
| modest if in evidence, so he swelters
in a coat and if he leaves off his vest
makes a feeble pretense of wearing no
suspenders by donning an expansive
and accordingly hot belt outside of
| them and his other apparel
Now the shirt waist would be boon.
He could wear the Objectionable sus-
penders under the waist which could
| drop easily over the outside, after the
| fashion Of the old time roundabout"
| the band being concealed by a slight
| pOuching of the waist. The said band
| could be fastened to the top of his
trousers something i'm the style Of the
| blouse waists of early bOyhoOd, if so
| desired. 1t wouldn't so much matter
| then if he was always uncertain as to
| the location Of his waist line. At any
| rate the garment would be a joy for
| ever and the wearer could go about
| knowing that he was correctly gOwned
| i mean WaiSted-and still be comfort
able
Of course they could be tucked and
| ruttled or made up with embroidered
| inserting if so desired Individually
| speaking. / should prefer to see them
! with fiat box pleats back and front, but
| of course there are men who would
want to wear frills. They now confine
| their eXuberant taste to the handller-
| chief tie with its floating ends but no
| doubt they would appear i'm some ex-
| tremcly giddy shirt waists. Hasten the
| day.
! There are few things more pathetic in
| this world than the spectacle of that
| lngerSOll family Clinging to the dead
| man that was the loved husband and
! father. 1t is more than pathetic; it is
| deeply tragic. Other people weep over
| their dead. others are reluctant to look
! their last upon the silent unrespOnsive
! face and lingcr long indeed by the side
! of the Casket dreading tC shut their
| darling away from the light and the
! beauty of a world which seems very
| real amid the shadows of an impenetra-
| BILE mystery. But more real than any
| thing else is the feeling within most
! grevinG hearts that somewhere some
! time, they shall meet the one who now
| refuses to answer when they call who
will not weep with them nor smile with
| them. Mingled with the deSolatiOn at
the grave is the vague consciousness
that the spirit is only just beyosd the
| reacn of the mOurner's voice, and that
We're not mortal eyes holden they could
see the familiar face and the sweet
flash of recognition.
| Few of us can stand in the presence
of death and, impressed with the differ
ence between what is and what was a
| few hours before, when that mysterious
| something We call life was still pres
| ent not feel it is that which has fled
| which is the real person we loved and
| not the Thing lying inert and silent
| uncaring for our misery and from
which our whole physical being shrinks.
! To most of us, those who were dearest
are still living and are not in the grave,
| not in an urn, not lost forever but
| however glorified their condition, still
| looking back upon us, and if only per-
| mitted would bid us check our tears
and be glad for the bliss upon which
they have entered.
|
How painfully different is the grief OF
the lngersolls-no hope, no light, no
comfort only an awful darkness, vast
| desolation, an infinite loss. 1t Is not
wonderful that they should have clung
desperately to all that was left-the
stiffened, mOtioness form, while the
real something which, after all, was
their loved one has vanished forever.
1t is difficult for one who has hope of a
hereafter and belief in a continuation
Of happiness for the soul in another
sphere to imagine actual unbelief and
sincere conviction that death ends all.
1t is not pleasant thought.
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