The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28
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COMPANIES EXTRACT
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between a fiat, flavorless dish
and a tidbit that would tempt
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rious styles and weights of footgear,
including a pair apiece of overshoes.
But not being quite thoughtful enough
they started out one cloudy morning
minus the overshoes, only to be over
taken by a downpour of rain that sent
their eyes to a rueful examination or
their boots.
Fifty cents had been extravagantly
dedicated by each of them to the pur-
chase of a Notwithstanding cute
and little" to stand as a reminder of
the trip. But when the rain came
down two of the maidens being wise,
decided at once to appropriate the sum
to the purchase of rubbers. The third,
being foolish, had her heart set on one
of those lovely posters of the Pan
American, representing the spirit of
Niagara by a beautiful female form
with rainbow halo above her head,
and the waters enveloping her and rls-
ing again as a mist before her.
So the wise maidens went into the
neighboring shoe store and bought
some nice stout rubbers-good heavy
ones for the price-and put them on,
and felt that if they had not pretty
souvenirs they had at least useful ones.
DllL Tie lOOlISh
her pair at home, and being naturally
Indifferent to a little rain, which she
foolishy argued was nice and refresh
ing on a summers day, bought her
poster and gladdened her heart by adj
dressing it herself and seeing it safely
posted for home.
And then they all went out in the
rain. But the water came down so
hard and fast for while that even
with their overshoes the wise maids
dared not venture out. So they all
stood huddled under an awning until
the shower was over and a rift sudden
ly shot in the clouds-and then, the
sun was out. 1t grew nice and warm
and dry under foot and the new rub
bers growing heavy the wise maidens
were obliged to remove them and do
them up in packages of newspaper and
carry them about under their arms all
day, while the foolish maiden-well, she
was an amiable sort of girl and never
once said 81 told you So"
The poster now adorns her room-as
do the overshoes the rooms of the other
two.
81 stayed here all last summer" said
n woman on a seashore piazza the 9TH
er day. to a representative of the New
York Commercial Advertiser, but
would have gone to the mountains in
August if it had not been for the
trunks"
"The trunks?" queried her compan-
ion.
Eyes. the trunks" sighed the first
woman 1T seemed too bad after all
the sea bathing and the other things I
had done to make me strong to have
to pack those trunks. knew my back
would ache for a week and my nerves
would be in a tangle for fortnight.
The more l thought of it the worse L
felt l dreaded it as / dread May NOV
ing. When my husband came down
Saturday night l told him. Being
man, he doesn't understand fancies or
take much stock in whims, but he has
seen two cases of nervous prostratlon.
and nothing is so educating as such an
experience. He looked at me and shook
his head as if to dismiss the subject
forever. Don't bulge he said. Stay
right where you are until you feel
equal to tackling EN-. Don't bother
your brain or lift your hand to do any
thing you don't have to do unless you
feel like doing it, And it was so pleas
ant and stimulating to have things set
tied for me in that brisk, decisive way,
that l just let things slide until the
first of September. BY that time had
it with enjoyment in my own vigor and
energy. But trunks to pack are awful
bugaboos to weary women.
THE professional trunk packer is a
boon and a blessing If one has many
trunks and little strength" vouchsafed
a third woman. I'm the west last win
ter I found a card in my room at the
hotel where l was staying, saying that
Miss Blank, trunk packer, would pack
n e. fraN Il
for Miss Blank. She came, armed with
a foot rule and bundle of tissue pa
per, a paper of tiny tacks and sew
eraI yards of tape. The trunk was first
measured, and the gowns for which 1t
was intended folded so as to fit within
IL exactly Tissue paper was laid be-
tween their folds and wads of it in
the sleeves and loops of bows served
to retain their shape. Anything liable
to mark or mar superintendent mate
rails was enveloped in tissue paper,
rolls of which were also placed wher'
ever folding over might crease the
goods.
Broad linen tapes were tackled to
both sides of the trays, near either end
and in the middle, and tied securely
over the contents to keep them in place
and prevent their slipping to one end
when the trunk should be handled.
This was further insured by folding
the upper parts of skirts over the end
tapes for about a foot, alternating tho
direction in which the skirts were
laid. Waists of gowns were pinned to
the tapes in places not likely to mar
them, and bonnets were laid in nests
of tissue paper and firmly held be-
tween other tapes criss-crossed the
sides of a deep top tray. If things are
well folded the more tightly they are
packed the better will be their condi-
ton upon arrival. My trunks were
three days packed before l saw them
again, but when they arrived in New
York not a frill was out OF place"
II were called on 20 suggest the
best possible remedy for feminine ex-
travagance. says Dorthy Dix. in the
New Orleans Picayune. should say
that IL lay in the possession and use
of a good mirror. That seems a little
contradictory, but II isn't from wo-
mans STANDPOINT. What makes women
continually buy new clothes Is dis
satisfaction with the old. and nine
times out OF ten the fault isn't so much
with the garment as the way II Is put
on. There are women who apparently
always pitchfork their clothes on. and
who would look like a marked down
bargain remnant in n Paris confectiou