Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-23
DREssMAKiNG BY WIRELESS.
No Rest for Worried Husbands Even
on the Sea.

The sea, the SEA. the open sea,
The blue, the fresh. the ever iiee'
From an old song.
Of course. the sea is never Tree. II
usually costs from 800 up. according
to tho location of your CABIN But the
latest news from London passages the
end of the freedom from land worrl-
noorts which has contributed no little
IN the nop,larity of the ocean with
nereons who are overworlled by bust
ness and by extravagant families. and
who like to get Il week or Two of I'M
INTERRUPTED rest between continents to
store IN energy for the shock of no.
tel bils and purchase beyond the roll
ing main.
pressrnaking by wireless is the latest
innovation. Husbands who have been
accustomed to sitting down in their
deck chairs and feeling that there
could not he any raids on the pocket
books until the end of the voyage Will
now take a new view of travelling upon
the transatlantic ferries An exclusive
old Bond street establishment which
has enjoyed an honorable career as
parveyor to the nobility and royalty
mas signed contracts with the Cunard
Line, according to a cableSram to the
NeW York Herald. to exhibit every
thing in ladies' wears on board the
Mauritania ard Lusitania. All expert
representative will travel on each OF
the steamers. Living models will be
on Board to wear an extensive array OF
the latest style costumes. The models
will not only hold receptions. but will
n
wives and daughters of wealthy pas
sengers to buy clothes. Orders will
be transmitted Ly wireless and cos
tunes will be ready when those who
have ordered them arrive. This Am
crican provider will settle while his
ship is being locked.
No more tedious" hours absorbing
health germs from the salt air and
Snoozing gloriously from luncheon I'M
til walked up to be told it is time for
tea. No more tedious hours playing
bridge III his smoking rooms or shuttle
board on deck. No more tedious
Fa"S doing the reading that has been
LETT Indone on land, or doing those
things to the reputation of fellow-pa
Sengers that ought to be left undone,
but constitute the sauce pquant for
the feast of idle gable. Hereafter
crossing the Atlantic will be like being
confined for five or six days in q de-
partment store surrounded by a bot
tomless ocean. The ressimist Iamen-
ted that there was nowhere to go but
out; nowhere to Gene but in" But the
pessimist could at least go out. The
father of a dress-loving daughter and
the husband of Il Wife who has a
grande passion for the latest thing i'm
everything. and week of nothing to
do but yield to-the temptations of the
purveyor. cannot go out. Imprisoned
IN gilded cage. helpless. hapless, he
must submit to the bludgeonings of
fate.
1t took brave man to go to sea
when boats were cCckshells and canvas
the only propeliins power. 1t will take
a Drawer one when boats are hotels
and department stores combined. But
only on fast steamers at present will
these shopping facilities be established
Those who have always preferred
slow boats. fer one reason or another.
will now find that they have the added
attraction of freedom from the neces-
sity of discussing clothes throughout
the voyage and being swamped by
bills for the same at the end OF it
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