The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-03
MY LADY's APRON.


Let the heart of man rejoicel An old
time custom that he always loved is in
vogue again among his womenfoIk.
Inc apron which grandmother laid ten
derby away IN her bureau drawer a long
long while ago is come back once more.
Redolent of lavender and Of sweet old
fashioned ways, it seems almost a sacred
reno handed down from the quiet rest
tul past to the rushing restless present.
tor the busy, active women who will don
the apron today are very different from
the dainty, old-time matrons whom it used
to grace 1t was the change in woman's
status and occupations perhaps, which
mad something to do with the way the
apron was suddenly whisked out of sight
generation or so ago.
At any rate 1t is recorded that it went
And once more it as suddenly returns
to favor. Why it was discarded man has
always been inquiring. He never found
out any further than the eternal femin-
inc because" and he has always been
lamenting that it was gone. For the
masculine mind the apron stands as the
badge of dear domesticity which he re-
grets to see his women relinquish, the
emblem of femininity which he would
not have them part with for all of the
modern strong mindedness and independ-
ence.
some sort?" many a man has asked In
vague sort of way of his richly tea
goWned wife. cit would be so much
more home-like, you know" he has beg
ged, remembering a long ways back that
that was mothers way
But it hasn't been the way of the woman
of the period, and she has told him so In
language that was meant to be convinc-
ing when she explained that aprons had
gone out of style. To any but the mascu-
line intellect that explanation would have
peen authoritative, enough. Mere men,
however, usually gathered but little
meaning from it and went their way
dumbly wondering why women
wouldn't wear aprons any more.
Well, they will wear them now, and
men everywhere will be so delighted to
hear it that they will not stop to cues
ton why If they did they might be told
that women are going to wear aprons
now for the very same reason that thew
wouldn't before-because fashion. that
authoritative arbiter of feminine DESTINY
IN Dress, has said that it shall be so.
Aprons are to be worn afternoons al
nome, for tea drinking by the woman
VINO pres1des at the table and ''pours''
and by the girls who serve" But most
OF all they are worn at the little chafne
dlsh suppers In the evening to which men
are invited
FOR these occasions the daintiest, most
1etchlng creations imaginable are devised
so 1t is not at all to be wondered at that
the men have voted the girl with the
apron the most adorable vision that has
daWned on their mortal sight in MANY
seasons
For this girls benefit, some of the new.
est ideas in aprons are here shown.
1here is one of China silk. with the
dearest little heart-shaped bib. Most ot
i the aprons, by the way, are made with
DDS and silk Is a material almost as
much used as sheer stuff Of lawn and
muslin. Quaint Powered dimities and
hand-embroidered nainsook are also in
| demand.
This particular china silk apron is edg-
ed all around with ruf1e and is EN-
proloered in forget-me-nots. Of a differ
emit design is pink dotted white muslin
made with a pouched border for pockets
and trimmed with black velvet ribbon
A White china silk bound about the ede,-
with lavender ribbon and decorated with
an embroidery of French knots makes a
DAINTY apron. It has pointed ''hand-
kerchief bib," and is tied over the
shoulders With lavender ribbons, ternin-
atlng in big bow knots. Very filmy and
fetching is sheer lawn elaborately trim
med with valenciennes insertion and lace
rutf1es. Just like the apron that grand
mother wore" is prim little affair in
apple green silk with the corners and the
pockets embroidered in a paler shade of
green. A butterfly apron has the point
ed bib trimmed with lace in that effect
and the apron itself trimmed with a deem
ru1f1e Of glace.
dotted muslin trimmed all about with
rufties of the same has the effect Of
sweet simplicity.