The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-02
waists are very easily laundered as are
many of the other little dress ac-


cessOries. -
hesheavier skirts and coats can be
sent once in while to the laundry,
but with the naptha soap, even these,
are not impossible to the girl who is
not afraid to use her muscle when it
comes to looking charming. In the
South the ladies dress altogether in
white the summer round and most of
] the winter and use a cotton goods for
their coats, skirts and shirt waists
called Indian head domestic" We
have never come across any of it here
and wish our merchants would carry
1t. 1t comes at from ten to fifteen
cents a yard and when nicely laun-
dered cannot be told from the fine
butchers linen SO expensive to make
up.
The homes in this town are in
state of dishabille as are most of the
housewives. The men we meet COM
ing and going to their offices have
don't forget the tacks, darling" look
that Is pitiful In the extreme. The
children look worried, in fact every
one carries more or less harassed
look. The reason is simply the annual
event known to the immaculate north
erp housewife as housekeeping, un-
known, though, in the South, or If it
Is known never noticed by us, and we
lived there five years: Luckily it only
lasts week or two here, but, @! it is
strenuous while it does last. Now it
may sound funny to hear one say they
never clean house in the South, but
1t is nevertheless true. The annual
dismantling Of home, so common
here, is practically unknown in the
South. Here housewife would think
her home a dreadful place to live in
If the carpets were not lifted once
year at least and many insist on their
being lifted and beaten twice a year.
In the South we have been in homes,
good homes, too, considered the best,
where we knew the carpets had not
been lifted in eight and ten years. Of
course we won't say they were clean,
or homes taken care of in that way
could be clean, but there is one thing
about 1t to be recommended, and that
is that the housewives keep their
youth longer, look fresher and do not
wear the worn look the average north
ern housewife does. Two weeks of the
northern woman's housekeeping is
enough to upset an ordinary woman's
nerves for a fortnight and if we
were to hear the husbands and chill
dren's side of it, it does. We do not
know that we would recommend the
happy-go-lutky way of living by the
woman of the South, but our own
women could really take it easier If
they tried.
This is the excuse physician gives
for the woman who nags. He says
she is tired and i'll or she would never
nag. The cases that come under the
physicians eye are those of the wo-
men who are tired, and who have been
tired SO long that they are suffering
from some form of nervous disease.
They may think they are only tired,
but In fact they are ILL., In such cases
the woman often suffers more from
her nagging than her husband or the
children with whom she finds fault.
She knows she does it. She does not
intend to do 1t. She suffers in her
own self-respect when, she does it,
and in the depth of her soul longs for
something to stop it. The condition
is usually brought on by broken sleep,
improper food, want of some other
exercise than housekeeping, and en-
ough of out of door air and practical
objective thinking. 1t is often the
most unselfish and most affectionate
of women who fall into this state.
They are too much devoted to their
families to give themselves enough
of any healthy exercise and diversion,
enough of maps, perhaps, or concerts.
l-Atchinson Globe.
Clara Belle in her chat with the Gin
cinnati Inquirer does not hesitate to
discuss things. She speakes thusly
the hoopskirt ball at the old. Astor
house: 1t was freak of smart society
that got talked about lot; and 1T
really was sight, 1t didn't seem
possible that fashionable women ever
had made themselves hideous with
crinoline distension like that. Yet
the portraits of 1850 to 1855 prove that
they really did. sometimes hear
prudish women talk against the cling
ing skirts of the present day, assert
ing their immodesty in outlining the
figure and displaying every movement
of thet hips. But those hoopskirts
must have been, far and away worse.
Why, when young girl friend of mine
brought out relic of her great
grandmother in the form of skele-
ton of tapes and wires, and cleaned 1t
up to wear at the ball, she found that
the lowest of the hoops was quite
stiff strip of metal. She explained
that it was what at the time of the
hOOpskirt's vogue was called "tilter."
Its deliberate purpose was to tilt"
when the wearer walked or the wind
blew, so as to display her shoes, stock
ings, and even her garters.
Are you going to wear it at the.
ball?" asked.
mot for a million dollars" said the
girl. II don't mind gown that hugs
me from ribs to hams, for that much
of me is all right; but, as you and