The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-03
WOMAN'S
WORLD.

lNO OF itO NcAAct N--~
gathered, says Dorothy Dix, in the New
Orleans Picayune, for a bit Of talk the
other day, and the generation. as was,
perhaps. not unnatural, turned upon the
subject of clothes. Only not women's
clothes this time. Mems clothes. Hus-
bands clothes. None of the little party
had had the luek-good or bad, according
to the way you look at ito marry
Beau Brummel, who was a glass of fash
ion and a mold of form, and there was a
melancholy concurrence in the opinion
that a good part of the average married
woman's burden consisted in trying to in
duce her husband TO present creditable
appearance in the matter of dress.
"It's an amazing thing to me-" Bald one
woman, that so many otherwise clever
men have so little understanding and APP
probation of the importance Of clothes.
They seem actually unable to grasp the
significance of the fact that nnety-nine
people out of a hundred judge man by
his appearance. If he is well-dressed.
spck and span looking, you feel IN
stinctively that he is prosperous and pro-
gressive, and that his ideas and methods
in life are up-to-date. If he Is slouchy as
TO clothes, with trousers that bag at the
knees, and a decollete collar that shows
his Adams apple, and a string necktie
that is always crawling up in the back
and down in front, you can't help feeling
that he is an easy-going, helter-skelter
s3Tt of a person, whom you could sell gold
bricks to, If you wanted to- and you sus-
plcion him at once of running his busi-
ness in a sip-shod way that is liable to
land him in the bankruptcy court any
day. OF course, you may be altogether
wrong, but that is an unavoidable first
impression, and it takes recognized finan-
cal ability and long bank account to
offset 1t. A rich man may go shabby II
he wants to, but it is simply suicidal for
q poor one"
'sThats true enough" agreed another
woman, but you viii never make man
who is given to the old clothes habit see
1t. i have argued that question with my
husband right straight along through tif-
teen years of otherwise peaceful and har-
monious married life, and l have never
convinced him yet that any old thing in
the way of clothes isn't good enough TO
wear. Everytime l suggest that ne
needs new SUIT he.demands, what's the
matter with this? / haven't worn 1t but
two years yet in tone of voice that
indicates his belief that I am about to
rob him of his most cherished possession.
Then l point out that it is getting seedy,
and that the coat is too long or too short,
or too something, and that they are not
wearing 'em like that anyway this sea-
son. and he simply snorts at the imbecil-
ity of the feminine intellect that pays
attention to such trfies. It's the same
way with all his clothes. He never buys
a hat that doesn't look like last years
birds nest II he can help himself. He is
firmly convinced that nobody would no
tice such little thing as his trousers be-
ing fringed around the bottom, and that
1t wouldn't make particle of difference
If they did. Now If that was a case of
poverty and need / shouldn't say word.
! should honor him for his heroism in dar-
ing 10 go shabby, but under the circum-
stance when he can afford anything he
pleases, it's a plain case of aggravation."
The third woman reached over and
pressed the speakers hand sympathetic
ally. Just my fix, exactly she said. Il
know all about II. My husband is a dear
and a darling, but he Is one of the consti-
tutionally careless. 1t is his firm and set
tlsd belief that you ought not to discard
a coed garment because you happen to
turn the ink bottle over in your lap. or get
srlashed with gravy. l confess, l adore
neatness and good grooming in man,
and before we were married used to look
at him and say to myself. Just you wait,
young man, until get sssssion of you,
and I'll institute a reform in your ward
robe that will make your head swim. III
Sc, to the cut of your collars. I'll settle
the fate of those gay plaid trousers. in
see that no more misfit coats are palmed
off on YOU Well, / begun with enthusi-
asm. and persevered with patience, but 1t
was no good / worried my husband, and
/ worried myself, until finally l decided
that peace. was better than style in the
family, ard gave him up. What does the
good book say, Can the Ethiopian change
his. color, or the man who is in the habit
of dropping things on himself. his
spots?'
THE funny part of it." put in the first
woman, lis that our husbands, who are
so careless about their own appearance,
are so particular about ours. A man is
quick enough to notice If his wife doesn't
/ ok nice l remember. after / had been
married two or three years and had yield
ed to the temptation to become a bit care
less, that one day my husband stood look
ink at me for few minutes and then
tossed bank note in my lap, Take that
he said, and go and get you some rib
bons. or whatever II is that you used to
wear when you were a girl, and put 'em
on / did, and it was the lesson of my
life but 1t has never occurred to him that
] might like TO see him always looking
spruce and well-dressed, just as much as
he does me. There isn't a woman of us
VINO DOESN'T feel that she must do all
she can to keep the attractiveness that
won cur husbands affections, and 1t often
makes me wonder that man never
dreams that a woman may be disilusion-
cd just as easily as he can De. None OF
us fell in 1--we with a slouchy man, with
three-days stubble on his face We be-
slowed our romantic young affections on
an MISUNDERSTANDING youth, fresh from
the barber shop, and / have made up
my mind thai If ever get married again
i am going to have marriage contract
with an iron-bound clause in II calling
for a daily shave or a divorce. "A cynic
once said that the reason there was so
much domestic discord was be cause so
many women regarded marriages merely
as carte blanch to wear mother hubbards
and eat onions. The shoe fits just as
well on the other foot, and there are
entirely too many men who regard mar
age as unlimited liberty TO wear shabby
clothes and go without shaving"
The Washington correspondent of Les
lies Weekly writes as follows about the
wife Of the Chinese minister:
Madam WI has sensibiy remained faith
full to the Oriental dress. and her cos
TUNES are the envy of her American sis