The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-03-26
kLIPs FOR WOMEN
That Question Of Clothes.


so you are getting ready for
spring." said the young wife and
mother 10 her girlhOod friend. so
am /. have to. The last skirt OF
the six that belonged to my trous-
seau is a faded rag It's an awful
sensation to feel that you haven't a
skirt TO your name
TON and have made up our
minds to be reckless and care free
once more, so We are going to get
clothes-everything down to the last
couple of extra buttons that the best
tailor in town always puts into the in
side breast pocket of your satin
lined jacket.
You see, Peg Ann, our house is
paid for at last We stained it all
on the outside last year, so that's
done. OF course, We Cgght to paper
and tint inside, but We just won't
i've been married long enough to
have the nerve to boss my own mar
ried life to suit myself. You know,
newly married women always clean
house, buy an extra dozen of sheets
every now and then make comforters
and save the dabs of leftover milk
for their sourmilk biscuits, just be-
cause some other married woman
does.
Sometimes | think that married
life is nothing but copying-copying
patterns, copying recipes, copying
quilts. Oh, I'm sick of it, Well I'm
going to stop it. So, Peg Ann. If you
and every other woman in creation
wants to clean house this spring you
can just go ahead and clean. won't
I'm going to lock up the house,
feed the chickens, tie up the dog and
take the children to mothers the first
nice house-cleaning day that comes
along. I'm going to just shop and
shop and gradually envolve the most
wonderful spring wardrobe.
Il know exactly how I'll do It. I'll
go from store to store seeing and
pricing everything. Then I'll go
home. That night I'll put the chill
dren to bed early and sit down with
pencil and paper.
I'll draw up perfect diagrams of
myself in my lovely house dresses,
tea gowns, shirt-waist suits. lingerie
frocks, tailored walking suits, even
ing gowns. I'll have every pair of
gloves the exact shade of the gown
it goes with. Every pair of shoes
will be just the thing. Every hat will
have just that outlandish foreign
twist to it that makes II worth much
more than the less freakish headgear
of our home manufacture.
Yes, Peg Ann, that's just what I'll
plan and III stick to that programme
or die
But, Peg Ann, if weaken dis
gracefully as | have done in other
years at the approach of spring. III
send TO the cleaners that faithful
tailored jacket that graced my person
on my wedding trip ten years ago
Then I'll buy ready-made skirt tC
match it. I'll dig up from my keep
sake trunk the hat that was so ad
mired in the early days of my bride
hood
Il have in my remnant box a five
yard piece of pongee that picked III
for almost nothing A simple it'll
blouse of that VII go beautifully Wit
that cleaned jacket and ready-mad
skirt.
THAT old ecru lace collar whic
you thought was so rich looking tn
time / visited yon with my first bah
is faded now. but I'll dye it in coffe
and with that lacy touch maybe tina
blouse won't make the neighbor
wonder for the thousandth time ho'
much Tom makes a week and ho'
near we are to ruin. Just you wa
and see!
After the blouse is evolved ther
will be enough pongee left to draI
about that old bride hat The fror
of the hat I'm going to load dow
with three lovely lunches of violet
Then to subdue all this millineI
glory shall buy long blue genuir
chiffon veil.
| "Of course, not having my FOOLS
imagination, dear Peg Ann, you car
: conceive what a radiant figure | sha
be in all my finery. But | know
shall be satisfied and contented fl
you know really don't go abo
much and I'd rather see the babi
and Tom logged out than to be to
ged out myself. II pays me VIII,
people look at my two boys and the
two sisters and say; what stron
handsome children and how tastefl
ly they are dressed! Their moth
must be proud woman
We'll, I'm proud, Peg Ann. /
more than that. I'm a smart wont
If | do say it myself. II takes
smart woman to be poor MAJ
wife"
Cookery Gets Into Society
Society is getting interested
cookery if one may judge by the 81
cess Of the lecture on that imp,
tant science =. delivered yesterday
Mrs. Potter Palmer's art gallery.
deed, one might say with consid
able confidence that amid such S
roundings a great many society wo
en- would find a fascination in I
task of almost, but not quite, boili
an egg-which is the proper way
prepare 1t for breakfast Accord
to the gifted lecturer at yesterda
meeting. Unfortunately the avera
city apartment is not provided W
well appointed art gallery in VIII
to do the family cooking. If it ",
the reek of the gas range would
likely in time TO blacken the Cor