The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
SUMMER SHOPPING COMFORT.
Hints From . Maid on Keeping Ceoi and
Avoiding Fatigue.

Most ladies don't know how to come into
town for day g shopping in the hot weather.
They plan too much to do, and they don't
dress right, and they don't take any time
| to rest or to have nice quiet lunch, said
the maid in the dressing room Of promi-
nent restaurant as she piled palm leaf
fan over an exhausted woman.
Lady tainted dead away at ono Of the
tables yesterday at lunch. Lots who don't
faint look as though they might any minute.
don't see why ladies who can afford almost
anything should be 30 hard on Themselves
when they come to town for a days shop
ping in this hot weather. Why. they come
with lists most a mile long! I see them
marking off the things that they've got
through the morning, and there always
seem to be piles Of things left for them to
attend to-"
The reviving shopper admitted that all
that the maid said was true and added that
her feet were tired.
4That's the principal thing that ladies
should look out against-getting their feet
tired" She had drawn of the slippers and
was tanning and rubbing the feet. "Your
feet are now used to the soft, country
ground, and here you come to town in high
heeled slippers to tramp. for a whole day
on hard shop, floors and hot pavements.
it is If ladies would only follow my adj
vice and rest their feet out Of the shoes for
about ten minutes several times through
the long hard day, they would be surprised
at the comfort they'd get out OF it. But
when ! say that they laugh At me and say
keep themselves from getting tired and
worried they could accomplish what they
do in about half the time.
"That lady who tainted Yesterday had
to be in town until half-past s. The doct or
we got for her said that she was Just plain
exhausted, and that the sun had made her
sick because she was so; She had planned
q days work that wouldn't think Of doing
| even for good pay!
warm. 1t was. She had made the mis-
take that 40 many ladies make of judging
that the city will be as cool as the high
country they're in. When they come In
midsummer weather they should wear light
the dresses should he wall ing length.
| @They shouldn't wear mesh wells, for in
such excessive heat they make the face
perspire. A loose floating dark silk veil
about the hats what they want. 1t can be
lowered if the sunlight's too glary, or II the
heat.
Ladies should bring little bottle Of
cologne in their wristbags and some smelling
| salts and some powder and several hand
kerchiefs. There's nothing 30 refreshing
on a hot day as fresh handkerchief.
@They shouldn't carry packa ges. Seems
rs though they were so excited over shop
ping gain that they just must carry things
home! Most everything can be sent,
They should have little patience-it would
keep them from the exhaustion that comes
from carrying things about and keeping
track Of them.
Before luncheon ladies' should take
regular rest. They should rest the feet,
as I've said they should refresh their face
and hands with water, arrange their hair,
! and then go and eat a good meal such as
| they'd have at home-not a mixture of the
rich things that catch the eye on the bill
Of fare.
Il can tell quick as wink the ladies'
who know how to carry through the day
nicely. They look fresh as flowers all the
time, They go back looking just as calm
as when they came; Such ladies, how
ever, are very few. Most look very tired
and warm"