The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-07-07
BY MARGARET r. sANGsTER.

BY MARGARET r. SANGSTER.
In order to be healthtul, the dress
we wear must be suited to the season,
the weather and the business we have
in hand. We are q in the midst of
spring with soft airs, sudden showers,
bright sunshine, and every other de-
lightful thing that belongs TO the most
charming part Of the year. But last
December, although we had what is
called al open winter, there were
piercing winds and sullen skies, and
much Of the time the temperature was
somewhere in the ne%ighborhood of the
freezing point.
A friend of mine had occasion to
take a train one December afternoon
from New York to Albany. Midway
on the journey the train stopped and
among the passengers who stepped
aboard was a pretty girl with a jacket
over her arm, nj hat On her head,
and protected from the weather only
by a thin s~hirt-waist, with short
sleeves. The shirt-waist was dainty
and pretty and trimmed with lace and
embroidery, but, nevertheless, on that
day and in that atmosphere, the girls
dress was an invitation to grippe or
pneumonia.
All last winter, any one who chose
to look might see beautiful New
York girls walking on Fifth avenue,
in the afternoon, with furs aroun /,
their necks while their feet were
shod with low shoes and their short
skirts left visible the most elaborate
open-work stockings. This was GER
tainly not a healthful style of dress.
| trust not a single schoolgirl left
her mothers home CARRIED in SO stupid
a fashion.
Now that warm weather is here, the
problem has less difficulty and the ele-
ment of protection from cold is elm
mated. You are rather better off
without hats than with them in sum
mer, unless the sun Is blazing and you
need to be screened from its direct
rays.
II you would like to have thick, soft
and beautiful hair, you will run about
without a hat whenever o can.
Mornings and evenings a jacket may
mountains or at the shore is "A very
comfortable addition TO a girls ward
robe. When sitting out of doors on a
summer evening, il is always well "a
have a wrap and either a golf cape. Il
railway rug or one of those sensible
cloaks with hoods and pockets made
so neatly by u Shaker friends. will
fill the need to perfection.
A schoolgirls dress should be well
fitting and its weight hanging from
the shoulder, should never be allowed
10 become an impeachment. An elder,
ly lady whose %girlhood was passed
90 years ago, in a southern state,
tells me that she remembers when
every girls mother did her best to
squeeze her daughters waist into very
small compass, and that a girl some
times wore tied around that same
slender waist eight or nine very stifly
starched p%ettiCoats at the same time.
II was small wonder that the girls OF
those days too often went into "A de-
cline and early faded out Of existence
Those who survived were delicate and
tainted away at any slight shock. had
very precarious appetiles. and would
have been amazed at the rude health
e the girls of our time.
Whatever you do, girls, be sure thai
you have ample oom to breathe. ANY
form OF dress that contracts YOU
powers OF breathing is unhealthful ant
far from beautiful. For a~ll-rounC
wear, few fashions exceed in common