Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-27
Charming and Dressy Ef-
fects In Boudoir Gowns
Empire Effects In High
Favor Tinted Innings
Clean Through Sheer
Materials : Rich Laces
Deck Frilly Matinees
The Trail of Modish-
ness Everywhere.

Never was there yet born daughter of
Eve who did not covet the title of Mladi
Ilninty.
While the attribute of daintiness is sup
rnsed to be inherent in the sex, like so
many other desirable things, 1t is often
times the result of training rather than
-, instinct.
cynical Frenchman-one really I'M
AGNES that he knew tride too much
about our sex and a little too less Ito
coin a phrase) about his own--announced
a century ago that to really get correct
estimate of IL woman one had to catch
her en- deshabille. And in this Inter day
one must acknowledge that he struck upon
the one point in woman where she is most
likely to be found wanting.
While the French have not any nde-
quate equivalent for our word home,
they most assuredly do know how to
make that same home attractive, and the
French woman's house and home gowns
are things of art In themselves The
tailor-made gown is thing for street and
public use only. The reception toilette,
the theater and ball gowns have each
their separate uses, and are kept for such.
But for home wear there are charmingly
dainty effects In lingerie materials for
breakfast, and in more elaborate materials
for the rs O'clock" as they call after
noon tea, borrowing the English phrase
into their own tongue without even an
attempt at adaptation or translation
Speaking of his mother the other day,
middle-aged man said that In all his life
he had never seen his mother when she
could not have sat at the instant for her
photograph! Could any one thing In that
old lady's long life have been more elo-
ouent of her cleverness than that one re-
mark of her sons? He went on to explain
that while she gave herself up, and will
ingly, to the rearing and educating of her
family of seven children she never neg
lected her own appearance, and dress
with her was SO much part of her daily
life that it was accorded the respectful
attention it deserved.
II can well remember" he went on.
when was very small boy-in fact,
II Is one Of my earliest recollections-that
something happened in the nursery In the
middle of the night and woke up to see
my mother tucking in my small brother In
his crib She had on some pink wooden
thing, very long and loose, and flowing
with quantities Of lace ripping all over
1t, and with her long hair braided down
her back she looked TO my cnlidlsn lmaSl-
nation Just like an angel.
AT breakfast she had always pretty
little gowns or wrappers, as believe they
called them then, made from shower-of-
hail muslin. and always with lots of lace
and smelling Of lavender. And even wheD
hard times came after the war she always
had those same dainty little things OH In
the horse-things that went into the
washtub every week, they tell me, but
which seemed TO my masculine estimate
of things the very qulntessence of dainti-
ness and charm. And then she always
bad fresh. crisp ribbon bows to tack on
TO them.
..Oh. | tell my daughters that they
should take pattern after their grandmoth-
pr and when | find them in a dressing
sacque that has seen better days topping
an old skirt for breakfast | always ask
them If they would be willing to have
some one or another of their admirers get
n snapshot of them at just that minute.
My inotler--heayep bless her-never
iouked like that
For those favored mortais, who can
IF I'D 10 regard laundry bills with in
Inference and patronize the dry cleaner
constantly, there are the most charmingly
effective designs for house wear that
could well be imagined. Delicate tints
have preference where white is not fol-
lowed as q fad. As in all other de-
partments of dress just now it is the