The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-18

hot weather. They will declare, But
l can't rest with my head low; ! must
have two big pillows, or a bolster and
one pillow, else l am miserable and
then they are miserable with all their
pillows. 1t is nonsense to say that we
cannot accustom ourselves to almost
anything in reason. Like learning to
eat new dishes, we can adapt our
selves to new conditions of living with
very little difficulty, particularly when
the object is health and invigoration.
To be otherwise is to be provincial and
narrow. and to give the impression
that our lives have been led in a most
contracted fashion, more or less in the
remoteness of the back woods.
To sleep with the poultice of smoth-
erng hot pillow at the base of the
brain during the hot weather is only
to have the counterfeit of sleep-a rest
less nightmare-and to waken unre-
freshed, with the surface of the spinal
cord bathed in perspiration, and the
nervous system on edge. If you must
have a pillow, let it be a hard-hearted
hair one, which won't cuddle up close
to the face and neck and produce
wrinkles as well as sleeplessness.
Women certainly have the advantage
| in the way of cool dressing in the
| summer, and yet if men would only
| be as Independent in the matter as
they boast of being in most other di-
rections, they could live in comfort
during the hot months. instead of go
ing about looking parboiled, or as II
they had been taking an oil bath. They
wear too many clothes and too much
of them. If they are so fastidious as
to abjure the shirt waist they can ar
ray themselves in some of the thin ia
brics now in vogue and still preserve
their dignity. To be sure, it isn't pos
sibe for them to wear any sort of coat
and still be as cool as a woman in a
shirt waist, but a great many shirt
waist men are now seen. 1t is COM
mon at the shore resorts and in many
cities. If it is in the range of possi-
bility for q man to locate properly
that imaginary line known as his waist
and bestow a belt upon himself in that
vicinity he may present very neat
appearance. But, generally speaking
he does dread to relinquish suspenders
Horrid, ugly things. Why on earth he
is so attached to this system of har-
ness passes the feminine comprehen.
sion. They must be frightfully un.
comfortable and yet he clings to them
as he would to a straw if he were
drowning. They are hot, too and
doubtless, If women only realized It
suspenders are a deal worse than the
corsets which men make such a ructior
about.
| MI. kr To-
waist man are often amusing. It Il
rather generally conceded by womeI
who are overheard in these discussion
that. while the shirt waist is admir-
able for men, collectively speaking
they disapprove of their own especia
men people going thus unarrayed.
The other day, on a hotel piazza, ;
group of women were holding an ami
mated conversation about the question
There was considerable diversity o
opinion, but it was rather interestinl
to hear the one person in the group
whose own reputation needed an ulste
at least, declare decisively that for he
part she considered 1t simply in
decent" for a man to be seen in publ
without his coat. 1t was bad enoug
for him to divest himself of his vest
Funny wasn't it? Nice, respectabl
men, whom she made eyes at, mus
go without coats.
II don't blame people for trying {
keep the end seat in the street car,
remarked a stay-at-home summer gil
yesterday. 81 like to do 1t myself, bu
on principle 1 don't any more. But
can tell you how l manage to get tn
end seat when boarding a car. l jus
hate to Chamber over people an
draggle my skirts In squeezing pas
them, so / simply trample on thei
] feet, II they are men, and stumbl