The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-01
LUCKY WOMEN OF TO-DAY.
They Can Buy Things Their Mothers
Had to DO without.

Owing to the achievements of mod
ern machinery a woman to-day can
have things that her mother had tc
do without, says a writer in the New
York Sun.
She can buy a hemstitched linen
cambria handkerchief for one-half the
sum that her mother commonly paid
for cotton one plain hemmed.
She can buy all her household linen
for bed, table. bath and pantry, fin
ished with hemstitching ready for use,
and at a quarter the cost of old time
articles in this line that required
measuring off and making in the fam
lily sewing room.
She can have washable ribbons,
something undreamed of by old-time
shoppers, and washable dress goods in
all the delicate hues that were for
merly believed practicable only in silks
and woollens.
She can have mercerized or silkoline
Innings of any color for her gowns
costing 10 cents or IL cents a yard,
light in weight and lustrous, whereas
her mother had to put up with plain
gray or slate-colored silesia, heavy
per cambria that would run, shrink
and crinkle.
She can have a rain coat or mack
intosh that is soft. pliable, durable
and hecomingly colored for less than
her mother paid for a stiff, gummy
waterproof that became unsightly af-
ter a brief period of wear. She can
have dress shields for a nominal sum
that are flexible and satisfactory; she
can have light weight overshoes of
graceful shape, instead of the clumsy
galooches formerly used.
She can get u pretty comforter for
a few dollars that middle century
housewives could have secured only
by putting the ma terials in a quilting
frame and working tediously for
hours. She can have a Marseilles or
honeycomb bedspread for the sum
that was customarily expended on the
plain yarns to he hand-crocheted or
knitted into bed coverings.
She can have thin blown tumblers
for her table at a price that astounds
the shopper of fifteen years ago, tum-
blers pretty in design that put to
shame the heavy, corrugated goblets
that cost ten times the amount and
dainty cruises and cruets with cut
glass shoppers are hers for a song.
She can have whole sets of spoons,
forks and other silverware essentials,
of quadruple plate, gracefully shaped
and durable for less than the price
her grandmother paid for ordinary
pewter. or metal table utensils.
She can have a big beveI edge
French plate mirror framed in golden
oak or veneered mahogany for one
half the money her progenitors gave
for a small glass in pine frame.
AS seven to one is her advantage in
looking glasses both as to quality and
quantity.
She can have Holland shades OIL
good spring rollers for her windows
that her mother would have paid
three times the present price for, can
have wall paper at 81 25 for nine
yard roll that will successfully coun-
terfeit leather, tapestry. or thing, and
can get her stationary, If necessary,
at the rate of sixty sheets and envel-
opes for a dime and a nickel. The
lineoleums and oilcloths she gets for
slight cost would make the old shop
pers envious.
She can have a ready made cash
mere house gown. velvet trimmed and
of good cut, for the price her mother
paid for the materials to construct
such a garment. She can buy a cot
ton wrapper, princess style, for $3.50
that would take the amateur dress
maker a week Of steady work to build
and trim.
She can buy embroidery edgings
from three cents a yard up that are
superior In quality and pattern to