The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-06-07
THE WOMAN CAMP FOLLOWER
HOW THE ARMY AND NAVY WIFE
FARES
Lessons That a Wculd-Be Housekeeper Learns
in the Philippines-What is Necessary to
"Take Along" When the Summons
to Transport Comes

piece for its easy shape Take no WOOL,
silk, or other heavy hangings. They
look stuffy and discordant in tropical
house. Take no white muslin curtains,
this for two reasons: First, they be-
come quickly and hopelessly shabby
with mildew; second, they do not in
themselves sufficiently temper the
light, and you must not cumber your
windows with two sets of drapings. In
dian printed cottons prove very salts
factory, which fact will serve to sug-
gest others
Take enough mosquito netting to
curtain all your beds with curtains that
touch the ground; and choose a very
fine mesh The quality usually eX-
ported is too coarse to bar out certain
small mosquitoes whose venom bears
no relation to their size. Take a lib
eral stock of Pension powder. A table
spoonful of Persian power, shoulder
ing on a tin box lid, will render habi-
table a balcony-corner, or create a
sanctuary around your sewing-table or
your reading lamp where otherwise
mosquitoes pipe and sting in clouds.
AS to reading-lamps, if you think
wood alcohol procurable in your new
home, be sure to carry with you one or
more good spirit lamps, with a supply
of the most durable mantle burners.
Reading in the tropics by kerosene
light is most uncomfortable, and harm
full, overheating the brain, and pro-
ducing headaches and strained eyes. To
light kitchen, Railways, and bedrooms,
kerosene will do. But in living rooms
it is to be tolerated only as a ne
cessity.
Take hand sewing machine, and a
liberal store of motions" of all sorts;
and see that all your needles are in tin
foil-lined packets, else rust will quick
ly destroy them. Take set of paper
patterns Of the various garments Of
your toilette; for even if you find
mOdiste sQuatting under your own ban
ana trees, after one trial of her cut
yoI will probably prefer your own
handiwork, however inexperienced you
may be.
In choosing your wardrobe, remem-
Der these things: Your chief desire
will be to look cool and fresh and
dainty in a climate of intense heat and
moisture, where men and their collars
wilt together. To accomplish this you
will need many more changes than in
summer at home. Double, triple your
usual stock of undergarments, and have
them thin. Let all your gowns be
easily washable, and not too elaborate
ly or delicately trimmed; for you
must reckon with a species Of launder-
ing calculated to fade all cOlors and to
test the strength of every stitch and
thread White is altogether the most
satisfactory wear; although, especial
ly during the rains, one needs feath-
er-Weight wOollen skirt or two, and
some skirts of brown Holland or SINH
lar stuff, for use in out-of-door exer-
else. For mornings in the house have
eight or ten pretty, cOllarless, elbow
sleeved blouses of thin white lawn. You
will find your mornings duties very
heating, and that nothing SO contri-
butes to your comfort as does freedom
about the neck and arms Count on
seldom being able to wear any blouse
twice between tub and tub
Cotton crepes possess a peculiar mer-
it, particularly for travellers wear, in
that they can be washed and dried hur-
riedly and worn without ironing, in
stead Of following the week-long course
of the usual tropical procedure. You
will do well to avoid all silk goods
except the necessary ribbons. Occasion
ally, and quite without distinguish
ing visible evidence, some piece Of
silk will prove able to Withstand a
tropical climate. But as a general rule
all silks deteriorate very rapidly in
such conditions; within three or four
months arriving at the strength and
consistency Of tissue paper, Even your
umbrellas should be of material other
than pure silk. Otherwise you will
shortly possess no umbrellas, but only
tufts Of rags. Rubber, also, soon loses
its virtue OvershOes you must have;
but If your take a rain coat, let 1t be
Of waterproof cloth, not of macintosh
Kid gloves of all sorts stiffen almost
at once. discolor, and become useless
Take Isle in their place, if you think
any are necessary; and for great oc-
casions a pair Of silk net mitts. Silk
gloves may wear, but probability is
against it.
The common English practice in hot
climates is to wear lightweight pure
wool next the skin, in addition to pure
wool cholera belts; and undoubtedly
this is Of great importance in warding
away the chilIs that are at once SO
dangerous, so productive Of host Of
ills, and so difficult to avoid. Conspic-
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