The National tribune., 1909-01-28
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By sENoRA SARA.

The business woman will not wear
white muslin petticoats unless she In
tends to wear all white. White skirts
under dark ones soil very soon, and q
soiled white petticoat is horror. II
you must wear white ones, let them be
90 short that they do not show bit
when you walk. The business woman
will carry the waitest of handkerchiefs
but they do not need to be embroidered,
nor need they be costly. Indeed, the
plain linen handkerchief which can be
purchased for 10 cents is quite good
enough for ordinary use. The under
wear Of any woman-at least that
which comes next to the body-should
be changed every day of the world. II
this custom were followed there would
be much less sickness, much less sal
3owress of skin and much finer COM
plexions. The hot bath once day--or
G sponge bath, for, of course, all wo-
men have not daily access to bath
tub-and the daily change of body
clothes will keep you sweet and clean,
and you cannot keep your body In con-
dition to go among civilized people
unless you are careful in this particu-
Tar respect. The odors which are given
Off by the body in the effort to elimi-
aate from the system those active pois-
ems which IL retained would make in
valids of half the human race are COM
mon to all. No one escapes from this
disagreeable fact. If the body Is not
Kept clean and the underclothing is not
changed every day the fetid matter
which escapes thru the pores Of the
skin is reabsorbed by 1t from the cloth
ing, and that is what makes the sallow,
unhealthy woman in nine cases out of
10. These odors make you very un-
~elcome guest in a crowd; and, oh,
that crowd after the heat of the room
has got busy with those odors! You
get a double dose Of the poison, for you
breathe 1t in thru the nose and mouth
into the lungs.
Do not use perfumery, no perfum-
cry Of any kind whatever. Do not fol-
low the foolish custom Of hanging per-
furne sachets Of orris root and such
truck among your clothing. The dead
edor Of sachet smells is only shade
less Objectionable than the body odors.
In church or crowded public vehicles
end at society functions the various
4evorite kinds Of sachet scents are SIM
ply sitting. You almost imagine your
telf In an Oriental harem, where per-
1umery is used for the express purpose
Of Disgusting the foul smelling oils and
grease stuffs in which the Oriental
beauty laps herself to preserve her
Jmoothness OF skin. and to whom
bath in real water would be a distaste-
0ApoIIGACS. LII buOtt, Tie use Ol
scents Is now considered vulgar and
felegated largely to the demi monde.
perfumed soaps are an aggravation to
The tender skin, and as most Of the
perfumes used In them are cheap they
always present to the sensitive nostril
Che suggestion OF decay. Some people
are so extremely sensitive to these odors
that they can scarcely remain in the
room with them. I remember busi-
ness man who found a piece of scented
soap in the desk drawer after his
otenographer had gone away, and the
perfume in 1t was SO strong that 1t all
but made him i'll, and he threw 1t an
erf1y across the room thru an open win
dow, wondering somewhat smphatfcally
Why clean woman cared to have such
putrtd odors about her, and II clean
woman would use such stuff"
A business woman never has any
Nnsiing, banging things about her. The
Aarbaric "side arms of silver from
which depended half dozen silver
chains to which was attached tiny
mirror, scissors, nail file, memorandum
book and all that sort of trash. has hap
billy gone out Of fashion. But in their
place we have the long bead chains.
fhey are an abomination, and the busi-
hsss man In the first place hates the
elatter Of the things against the desk
ind chairs and then he cannot afford
% take time to do the polite thing when
the chain breaks and the beads roll un-
Ser bookcases, desks, tables and chairs,
and he must stop debating and pick
Them up or seem a brute.
Being business woman myself, /
know that what I have been telling is
true. The business woman must be
Rim and trig and businesslike il she
would succeed. She can be all woman
egain as soon as she leaves the busi-
hess environment and can get into So
Saety attire; but for the sake Of the
thousands of business women who must
ouffer for the sins of the few foolish
Virgins I have tried to tell you plainly
hat you cannot be bird Of paradise
end q business woman at one and the
tarne time. You will succeed In being
Neither. Now, just mark that.