Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-28
ATTIRE OF the SUMNER MAN.
Plaids and Crepe Ties Are Offered, and Hat
Bands Of Silk and Tnlle.


for this he needs a bathing suit. He
will WOO the mountain nymph and, for
the sweet task, he requires Knockers
and a sweater. He will stroll along
the sands and walk the green fields,
and for both of these pastimes he
needs clothes.
But the man who stays at home and
reads his ledger must also dress. If
the others need cooling garments he
needs still cooler ones. Ii the others
delight in pretty things, flannels of
varied hues, short coats and fancy
vests, he delights in them none the less
because he must wear them to work
instead of sporting them by the sea.
There lives no man this season with
soul too dead to appreciate the new
hats. They are making derbies of
straw, which. however. you are COM
PEELED to order, made in advance for
you, and they are also making high
hats of straw. looking rather odd, you
may be sure, but cool and summary.
Until the advent of the Spanish war,
and the first summer in the tropics of
Cuba and the Philippines. there was no
such thing as a helmet. except upon an
eAploref oI HldH Oh eCCtHtTlCltieS.
The wearer of a straw helmet felt that
he must be talented indeed before he
dared intrude such an article upon the
public gaze. Now they are wearing
these cool tropical hats every day in
New York and many of the men wear
tulle around them.
Net. tulle, figured lawns and silk are
the favorite trimming for the summer
hat. Mems sailors have their twist of
colored tulle; and mems soft Alpines
are decorated with a winding of gay
silk. The prejudice against feminine
trimmings is wearing off and you see
them all the time. There are silk
scarfs with their traceries of scarlet
and there are lawn scarfs with their
bands of bright silk.
The summer girl. be she sweetheart
or sister so long as she be a friend,
can decorate the plainest of last sum-
mer's hats very prettily. Let her bar
gain for her work. A dollar saved is
a dollar earned and goes just as far in
ice cream sodas. With last years grey
felt. and a little soap bark judiciously
applied in solution of warm water,
she can make new hat.
vi, IL Silt bt III ave, she 'fD UP tiic
hat in gasoline and gently massage it,
in the day time, until the spots are
gone. But let her not do so by gas
light as gasoline is treacherous
article to handle. When the hat has
been dried and aired, until it is fresh
and spotless, let her expend a dollar
upon the gayest silk scarf in the haber-
dashers window and not Sickle over
a quarter or so in price. 1t is the best
article which costs the most. generally
Let her take the scarf and, if it is
too "slinky," let her line it with crino-
line. and with this hearty substance let
her twist the hat until it is trimmed.
A knot at one side concludes the trim
ming.
If the man be disinclined to gay
trimmings. what is the matter-in the
words of the younger brother with
winding of white tulle or even a
broad fold of black taffeta which, by
the way. is very swell. this year. Any
thing to get away from the straight
stiff sailor which is not too becoming.
Sailors are made becoming by being
supplied with rather broad brims and
trimmed with gaily colored bands OF
all descriptions. The brighter the band
the handsomer the hat and the more
expensive. as a rule.
The white trouser is in Trouserings
come in beautiful linen duck, cut on
the newest lines. These articles bell
around the ankle and fit around the
leg. They are creased and modish and
quite different from the linen trousers
of childish memory when all that was
o. Cd Wi n nd
latter even being lacking after a wet
ting.
The correct trouserings include the
bluest linen, fine and soft, also the
coarsest of white duck. so heavy that
it becomes an army crash. Men differ
in their fondness for these materials.
many claiming that the coarse variety
holds its own the best in dampness and
in dust
If you are in your own business
where every energy is strained to do
we'll for yourself, then cast thoughts of
economy to the winds, purchase a
dozen sets of washable summer suits
and wear them all the time That is
practically the advice of New York's
most famous physician who declare
that men injure themselves and de-
stroy their gray matter. every sum-
mer by over-heating their bodies with
unsuitable dress.
New York in summer runs parallel
with Bombay in climate; in the former
they wear broadcloth and felt; in the
latter nothing but linen.
Chicago is a little cooler, in degrees
| than New York, but sweltering enough
sometimes; and for the South there
should be no argument. Every man
should wear the thinnest he can find
and rejoice that he has nothing
warmer.
Shirts are growing fantastic. A man
who buys shirt is asked if he will
! have the stripes running up and down
or horizontal. He is questioned upon
his tastes regarding a blouse front; if
he wants soft bosom or a stiff one;
whether he will take a shirt lin TWO
materials or in one. This means that
the race of men have wide latitude
| Of choice and that the day of the stiffly
starched white terror is past.
THE VALUE OF WEEDS.
Don't mill I'm yroods and Tho, Ioo..o