Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-02
PRISCILLA PEACHES
ON MAKING THE MOST OF LABOR
DAY.
Do the Thing You've Been Longing
for and Indulge Your
Fancy.
Written for The Star.

Written for The Star.
Monday is to be holiday for you and
me and the thousands or girls all over the
country who keep the mighty wheels or
business humminE. Labor day Is SO pecu-
liarly our very own holiday that It seems TO
me we ought to get Just little more out
OF 1t than any other holiday the year round.
What are you planning 20 do Monday?
do not mind admitting that I will spend
the entire day making a new shirt waist.
Perhaps l VIII even get up half an hour
earlier than on working days because l do
want TO have the waist finished for a
trolley ride I'm the evening.
'Humph," mutters girl who makes but
tonholes for a fashionable dressmaker.
that's a fine way to spend a holiday I'm
going to the lake and row and have
plunge"
And so she should because she sew. ana
sits still fifty weeks in a year On the
other hand i am my feet and never
have the coveted time to sew Furthermore.
l have been weeks storing up materials for
this one days pleasurinG with n needle.
First, studied waists and trimmings in the
fascinating shop windows, and during the
various noon hours I picked out Just the
material l wanted the bits OF embroidery
and lace, the No. 100 thread which will he
needed for the fine tucking and the tiny
crochet buttons to give II the smart lingerie
finish. II is going 10 be a great holiday
and a great waist.
Happiness and recreation are SO much n
matter of doing what you have been long
ing to do for many days. the realization OF
hopes long deferred. And recreation means
going back TO work Tuesday morning
greatly refreshed.
A trim stenographer I know has very DIFF
ferent plans for her holiday. She is one OF
those methodcal orderly girls. dubbed by
her employer fine ma chine that never
slips cog. the sort of girl who has in her
ma In nf HnR htfEin u-nf
Would he not be astonishCd III he could see
her Monday preparing for dinner party
at which she will entertain five fr ends from
her big office world? Right early In the
morning her mother will slip away to visit
suburban friends. and Ida will take pos
session of the kitchen. She is going To cook
every dish served At that dinner. so she will
probably spend the entire day In the
kitchen. You are sorry for her no doubt,
but she would not thank you for the sym
pathy. well meant though II may be. She
loves all the domestic arts. and II Will be
real happiness for her to mess about the
kitchen and a genuine triumph If her
guests. summoned from boarding houses
and restaurant clubs" praise her cookery.
Congenial Company
Holiday happiness is not necessarily rep
resented by a trip to the nearest beach
or lake resort. II you have no congenial
companions for such jaunt. you will not
have pleasant time nor return to your
work on Tuesday refreshed. Two unwise
maidens. newly arrived in a large city.
heard the girls about them discussing such
a trip for last Labor day. The two girls
from the country thought they could not
spend the day pleasantly in any other fash
Ion. they determined to visit the nearby
park without escorts. Perhaps they might
meet some of the boys from the factory:
anyhow. they going IL the rest of the
girls did. So they sailed forth in their
best frocks. which We're soiled by short
sharp shower, spent more money than they
had planned, were jostled and joked by rude
young men. and came home almost IN tears.
\ fine holiday. was II not?
Another girl working in the same shop,
wanted the same sort of trip, and she
suggested that her brother, two years
younger, but nearly n head taller, should
go with her. Dutch treat" each one pay
ing share of the expenses. 20 her amaze
ment, and perhaps his own for that matter
the girl found this brother. whom she had
always thought rather awkward and silly,
a pleasant companion. He knew more than
she did about the country through which
they rode, and when they reached the park
he took great pride in introducing to his
sister. of whom he shyly, blushingly
proud, the very incest young men from the
factory where he worked He would not
let her pay her share OF the trip, either
though he had to walk to work for week
afterward and eat slim lunches. 1t was
great holiday for the two of them who had
lived under one roof so long, each consider
ing the other hardly worth cultivating
If for weeks you have longed to lie abed
late. II your body has felt limp and your
limbs shaky. Mondays the day to allow
yourself the coveted privilege. Arrange
to have your breakfast brought TO your
bedside Indulge in the luxury OF stretch
ing and doing. Battle leisurely, curl your
self up in corner to read some book that
you have been saving for just such a
chance, and then take a quiet trolley ride
with a congenial companion in the cool OF
the evening That's the holiday
Remember that we are not all round pegs
even in our holiday pleasures. Don't force
yourself into the round hole OF merry max
ing which suits the girl across the hall Be
individual, even In your pleasurng and the
day will bring what you need-recreation
md refrpShment