The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-03-21
THE FAMILY.
Iy SONORA SARA.

The question of getting suitable
clothes is usually perplexing one for
the working girl. In the first place, the
majority take great pride in dressing
tastefiily, while many are wage-earn-
ers and must pay board and laun-
dry bills and must give the matter OF
dressing properly more consideration
than most girls who do not earn the
money to dress with.
The clothes best suited to the work
ing girl must be simple. almost severe.
so laces and ribbons are not part or
her wardrobe Black, dark blue, and
brown materials which do not crease
and are easily brushed are the most
satisfactory. for dress skirts, and any
suitable style in the piain-gored or
pleated effects will be proper. The
skirt should be round length, just es-
Gaping the ground to protect the bot
tom of the hem. Have albeit to match
the skirt, another OF dark leather. and
avoid those with cheap brass buckles.
1t is desirable to have one waist like
the dress skirt, q dark toned plaid.
and several white cotton and linen ones
with neatly pleated fronts always look
we'll and are easily Numbered. Never
buy a print waist for general wear: it
fades ard looks shabby. A white waist
is the working girls pet extravaganza;
however sleeve-pretectors can be worn.
and some splendid ones can be made
with white hankerc hiefs having colored
borders.
It is best to have q good collection OF
collars. but this does not mean satin
and chiffon affairs which soon look too
bedraggled to wear. yet too good to
throw aside. The white turnovers or
pleated stocks are best. II you do not
possess a neat gold brooch and suitable
pins for the shirtwaist, then button the
Waist and attach the collar with or
binary pins hidden beneath the collar.
Cheap jeweiry and strings of glass or
brass beads are 20 unattractive that II
is wonder girls will wear such cheap
articles when elegant simplicity is so
much more attractive.
Buy good linen llandkerchiefs with
hemstitched border and tiny initial
In one corner. The best handkerchief
are not cheap, yet better buy one good
one a week than indulge in the luxury
of box of lace and embroidered affairs
which never survive the first washing.
1t is not an extravaganza for work.
ing girl to buy the very best she can
afford. It,may take some time to make
all necessary purchases. yet there Is sol
much wear and tear to working gar
ments that it is advisable to get one
article at time. have it the best. and
that shabbiness which is unavoidable
confroDts the wcarer.
In the matter of underwear. theraI
cannot be much latitude for the girl
on a small wage. The Jersey or Swiss
ribbed is the very best for several -rea-
sons. It is cheap; il is co!1forta bile; IL
is neat. But. best of sH for the girl
who works such underwear ean be
washed in the hand basin IN cold water
with good laundry soap and a iittlel
ammonia rinsed in clear watcr, and by
morning is ready to put right on. III
does not have to be "blued. starched. |
boiled or ironed.' The girl who wears
il can have nice clean clothes every day
of her life.z and there is a great uplifting
force in clean body linen. Re girl can
be ABSOLUTELY sweet of soul and char
acter who is slouchy and uucleanly in |
her attire
In the matter of stockings. the work
ing girl is often extremely foolish. She
spends her small substance on cheap;
open-work hosiery, that is almost in
decent in its exposure of the flesh. |
Then the eheep. fffnsy things drop into
holes and prove n costly Investment af- |
ter all 1t is far wiser. certainly more
modest for the working girl, be she /
clerk stenographer. typewriter or cash
girl to buy plain. substantial black hose
that has wearing qualities. /
In shoes. again tiIe working girt /
SHOULD not lDuNiSc neT IdNlaoil's td-ts-. 4
Cheap. fancy shoes will ruin anybody'sl |
feet; then they soon get shabby, and
look so very bad. Better buy better |
quality: get a well fitting article, and
then keep il in repair. Leave the alb
surd. corn engendering high heels te
the women about town. and the women
VINO would like TO be thought fast, and
the society woman whose brains are
largely in her feet. The sensible. broad |
toed. medium sized heel establishes |
the quality and caliber of a woman at
once. Keep the heels on your shoes |
straight and well built up; never wear |
shoes with buttons missing. and. il you
wear ties, be sure they are fresh and |
not full of knots. Have your shoes half |
soIea--for good shoes will stand at least
one half sole-and have them patched, |
If necessary, but whatever you do, keep
them well blackened
Peticoats, There is another pitfafl |
for the working girl. Il should be re- |
membered that no lady-no real. simon |
pure born geatlewoman-wiil wear be- |
draggled white skirts. The accident OF ]
a sudden storm may ruin ones beauti- |
fully Numbered skirts. but to don them |
a second time in that condition is in