The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-04-16
GOOD DRESSING.


than one who is carelessly attired.
However much We may deplore the
vanity of dress, the fact remains that
we cannot afford to ignore the subject
altogether. l sat in great city
depot not long ago, waiting for a
train, and found considerable to in
terest me in noticing the appearance
of the multitude of people passing to
and fro from train to station and from
station to train.
1t is not considered good taste to
wear ones best clothes in travelling,
for railroad trains, waiting rooms and
platforms soon destroy the daintiness
of a costume, and it is pleasant to
note that this is generally observed
by well-bred travellers, bnt it is good
form to start out from home in sound
clothes, clean and neat and becoming,
to the wearer. Among the passing
throng, any distinguished looking
person, about whom you felt that you
would like to know who he was, or
where he hailed from, was invariably
well dressed. There is mark of gen.
tility about good dressing that no
slouch can acquire.
l have known men so fastidious as
to stretch and fold their pantaloons
in the store creases every night, that
they might retain their new appear
ance until they were likely to share
the fate of "the deacon's one-horse
shay" I am inclined to think there
are more of these fellows than one
might suppose from the spick and
span look of many who seem to have
no visible resources for buying new
clothes. Care often stands for money
in dress. But I should not like to
see the Head of the Sidneys devoting
his energies to the creases in his
trousers. It is not his nature to, and
he would be likely to make a bad fist
of it if he did, and get the creases so
out of bounds that he would look as
if he were walking backward-or
ambling sideways
To keep the hands and ears clean
and the finger nails cut are noticeable
matters not to be overlooked in making
ones toilet; and children should be
trained to attend to these things for
themselves while quite young. Hab-
its of neatness are not so much natur-
al as acquired, and good dressing,
from Alpha to Omega, is one long
siege of keeping at it.
The best-dressed woman one sees
ON trains, in waiting rooms and
similar places is not the one who
flaunts gay colors and fancy "fxin's"
galore, but the one who wears good
material quietly tailored, with hat
apd gloves of the same type.
A sensible dress that will stand the
tug of travel and general wear indi-
Gates sensible mind and is always
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and trihing mind within. By their
dress yS sAssssk AuSU suSIA ThSr~. is,
a time for everything under the sun,
but the time for fancy dressing is not
on railroad trains nor when engaged in
kitchen and farm work, and it adds
to ones high opinion of the human
family that these facts are so firmly
established. But the knack of dress
ing we'll on few clothes and little
money is not as we'll understood as it
would be if more thought and care
were used.
Every industrious person is entitled
to good clothing, and there is some
thing fearfully rotten ''in the state
of Denmark" if he can't have it.
Good clothing, suitable for all pur-
poses and satisfying to look at, can
be had for little money in these days.
Ladies' dresses can be made over into
waists, petticoats, or combined with
some other material or half worn
gown, making the old dress look
"amaist as weeps the new" There
never was a time since my recollec-
ton when the DEGREES of fashion were
better suited to cleaning up things
than now. We couldn't look odd,
for every sort of costume is to be
seen on the street, in the church or
hall, or wherever people congregate,
down to the social functions at the
seat of government, where no dress
ing at all on the upper portion of the
female body is the custom among So
ciety ladies of the upper crust. 1t is
these highest ladies of the land who
set the example of nudity to their
humber sisters, which, thank Provi-
dence, so few of them are willing to
follow, and of clothing the floor rather
than bust and arms with their rich
flowing robes. We must pardon these
ladies, however, for what seems to
us breach of propriety and good
morals, for many of them have been
suddenly lifted to their present prom
inence from very humble beginnings,
with no qualification for leadership in
apparel, and have not learned tha,
modesty is the first principle of good
dressing. It is so fortunate that we
do not have to follow unbecoming
examples.
Those of little means sometimes
make the mistake of buying cheap,
unserviceable goods, and pay as much
for making them into garments, OF
put the same amount of work on
them themselves, as they would in
making up frst-class material, which
is not the better part of wisdom.
Especially in wash goods, the best,
strongest and most fadeless is the
cheapest. The first cost may be
something more, but the satisfaction
of having something that will come
out of the wash as good as new for a
long time, is immense. One often
sees calico dresses freezing and flop.
ping on the line in midwinter. The
woman who dresses in calico when
freezing blasts are blowing, is endan-
gering her own health, making much
laundry work for somebody to do,
and giving herself cheap bedraggled