Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1896, Page 20

20 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 80, 189¢-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. SEWING AT HOME Pauline Pry Makes a Reply to Her Critics. WHAT IS TRUE AND FALSE ECONOMY Value of Women’s Services in the Household. EGOTISM didn't, look at me. abused by equal But to my —yea, many rounds as like. they fancy they A couple of weeks ago I wrote a story art of sewing at home, and suggested for the women the phold: werk according to the rule by which men achieve success setting forth the bad economy and bad practical consideration of these organization of hous in the business world: Never do anything for yourself that you an pay others to do for you. As a result of this, publi behind my back, women who do their ing at home have assaulted me with char as false as the logic with which they have sought to back them up One woman says with a chord of mingled superiority and contemptu dignation sounding through her “Pauline Pry is clearly opposed to dome economy and home industry.” wuline Pr 2 great many | m: »ple in the world who, nouch in comfortable circumstances. able to live by her motto: ‘Don thing for yourself that you can ers to do for you." OF WOMEN ID YOU EVER SE a worm turn? If you and want to, I can stand it to be a man, patronized by a baby and trodden upon by a woman of intelii- gence and experience own. when women who don’t know the a, b, e's of a subject don't know so much as the meaning of the words they vse—presume to contradict me and try to teach me something, my proverbially en- during nature revolts, and behold me now in the ring ready to meet all comers in as would and in private, by letter and in print, before my face and aw ses to forget that there are t do pay Even if one can do nored. But I don’t mean to fight the truth out on any score of sentimentalism. I sald this economy is the economy of bar- barians, and 1t 1s, by the altogether worldly Ught of political economy. One of these erroneously self-styled econ- omists deciares that the rule I suggest for the organization of household affairs, “Don’t do anything for yourself that you can pay others to do for you,” is depen- dent for its application on the possession of wealth, and adds with cheerful inability to receive an idea or reflect on one, “Even if one can do it, I think it a very bad plan to depend on others entirely for everything. I am one of hundreds of people who have become suddenly poor through misfortune, and I am very thankful for everything that I learned to do when I could have had it done for me.”” ‘The dominant error of this 1s In the wo- man seeking to make the necessity, of her emergency a rule of the housewife's con- duct—in confusing frugality with economy, and not one woman in a hundred—no, not one in a thousand—has any clearer notion of economy. The theory of woman's labor at home is that it is not only her duty, but her chief glory, to compass herself—single- handed, If possible, and if not, always with the assistance of unskilled labor—etery one of those utterly dissimilar and conflicting industries which sustain the life of the family. Cooking, scouring, washing, tron- ing, sweeping, dusting, marketing, nursing —these absolutely must be done, and so warped is the conscience of woman that in addition to all these lines of labor, a truly good woman doesn’t feel that she has quite done all she should until she has also done the family sewing, mending, dressmaking and millinery, besides making embroid- ered dressing gowns for her husband and keeping the creases pressed in his trous- ers, Hottentot Domestic F ley. This is the industrial idea of a Hottentot or Zululander, who is his own cook, carpen- because he need in the order tem of ter, butcher, tailor and king, has not sufficiently ad of civilization to profit by the s; exchange, division of labor and specializa- tion of talent, which in the industrial heme of enlightened Christendom permit each man to do one thing well in the inter- ests of all, and, in return, to command for his own needs the separate services of all. I want to beat it into the brains of wo- have brains, just the place in the industrial order of the reason of their Hottentot do- icy, and make them see, as many as see, how their interests suffer in consequence. It requires only a moment's attention ar thought to perceive that in following th I success in life, “Don't do yourself that you « ou,” this entails firs necessit of acquiring in equivalent of the needs yo of others to supply 2 advise women to go t instead of a ing for making their own assume that these women are y capable of earning the cost ssmaking. I know this is not the case with a large majority of wome women who get married for a living, who expect to earn all they have by the sweat of their hy brows, and who feel no moral o natural a n to make the most of any ty with which th > f : y have be . I think it a very bad plan <o yeu on | endowed, but are content to do and be sule- others ent for everything. I um one! ly as the accidents of mat << eee eietom ne, weqeg | Making -the virtue of wifely eee L saan wae bse y | mask to cover the unint learned to do when I Have had 1¢ j Cucient Character of (thetr done for me. “There are a great many women who, if they could not make their own clothes, would look old-fashioned and “low4dy,’ but if they know how to sew they can fix over @ great many things and mike a pretty gown out of what they would have been ashamed to take to a dressmal she knew how many women have one sim- le waist pattern, and use ‘hat for the asis of all the gowns they make, cutting or whatever out of newspapers the rev they embellish them with, and do it with- out any fuss or worry whatever? I sincere- ly pity the woman who caanot make out the paper pattern of today, for surely noth- ing can be more simple.” The Effect on Men. Still another even more clearly elucida’ the n nits of her kind by ing my with the summary an- she's mad at it, and on @ warrant of her wrath proceeds to es a law of « answer- argument ment that rrespondeace that “an nt ir rt waist v th a bright man would cons! What So cheap are the pretty sum- ods that a girl of moderate means who makes her o well as her wealth F-otto: ‘Don't di 3 ng for you can pay anybody to do for This same describes at length the self-satisfaction a little girl med 'y making a shirt waist for her- an app r sister who foll in successfull. self. I want to say to this little girl: “Bless y ! his r ess you, my dear! I love and respect you for every earnest effort you make in any direction, whether you succeed or fail, and I'll whethe tell you confidentially that, thinking of you, I ¢ame pretty near holding u y story | sewing at home vee Sigg AE after it was writt » fear- ing it might hurt your feelings and baron you with discouragement, instead of clear. ing your mind as to how best to employ your atility and energy. But I finally let it go, believing {t might be better to hurt your feelings a little bit, and thus set you think- ing about the truth than to let you go on in a metakes notion all your life. “Now, my dear, while interes! are locking about for an pier ae d ma to act as referee for the fight, I mean re engage in with those who have as- saulted my wisdom and humane i!nten’ a u e ‘ention, = point = : fact or two about tee conomy and philosophy. th gcanomy phy they preach and Not Economy at All. Thelr economy is the economy of bar- Barians. It is opposed to the interests of civilization in general, and does more than any injus- tice of our laws or any opposition of men can possibly accomplish to hinder the best evelopment of woman. It is a purely selfish economy as narrow in its scope as the minds through which it operates. ° Moi frugali over it Is not economy at all. y they preach, had sufficiently meaning of wort is a It ts quite another matter exact knowledge of s to comprehend. broad scheme whereby money are most wisely adjust- ends of human life a scheme of strict saving, its severe purpos: sto make excludes puld en In the x is the economy m od old New England » par excellence nemies advocate a child, not only jon of home-made ef the I have experienced f in the p cloth int of atflic but in kindred ills suffer ich as corns aequ shves econom- {cally bought several rge In an- ticipation of a year’s growth of feet, and in the saving calculated by the standing order to the children permitted to go to the cel- lar for an apple to “be sure to pick out the specked ones." I have not only eaten specked apples to gave them in accord with this regime of economy, but I have also eaten dried cake and stale ple, kept for | company until they were too bad to send even to a church festival, and so the di- gestion of the poor children was called in to suffer and to save them. I recall with tears this minute a picture of an old man I was wont to see every evening last sum- mer in Maine struggling with cold pudding, clammy vegetables and goodness knows what not that could not go on the boarding house table again, and which, perforce, his thrifty wife would have him eat at night before going to bed because it was too good to throw away and would spoil before morning. The Housewife's Conduct. In this scheme of eccnomy money and material things alone are considered. The sacredness gf human life, the moral obll- gation we are under to prevent cruelty to @nimals, including man, {s absolutely ig- wonder what Pauline Pry would say if nf wo- actual value of domestic labor. seem simple enough at a first attempt—a mere calculation, thus: women have no alternative in adju economy of their households but ke slaves or force their husba so. They must make their own clothe contract hopeless bills, and in a choice be- tween sacrificing themselves or their hus- bands, certainly those are to be com- mended for heroism who sacrifice them- selves. But my. little-girl-who-made-her- shirtwaist, don’t let these women mislead you, and do let me show you wherein the particular virtue of these Hottentot econo- mists is still a general vice An Eco le C1 They render inexact, and to that extent useless, all the calculations concerning the cost of lavor of the world, and by adhe to thelr misfortune as to a lard excellence in home foster ciency of women, especially in branch of work pe aining to home try, and, to a lesser degree, in every h of work in which women anywhere to work ds to do her. stan industry, th Wri Las The of weman w the fam in detail, but of ey that ich enter into ihe cost of living in the production o food and the general care of the home { without any sort of mention. The work of woman is Ub cipher. Increasing he value ¢ foid, in itself it is a Edward Atki economist I have know that mestic labor has economi In estimating that “half the lif a mere struggle for food kinson says: * Measure the struggle for life in terms of hours rather than in terms of money should find that a very much grea of life was devoted to the preparation of food than is represented b: the measure even of one-half. You will ov- ferve that in these computations of the cost of living which are made in money ail ruggle of Mr. At- part that we obtain is the cost of food delivered | at the ho be ma¢ se, but no computation is or can in terms of money of the labor of the housewife or children in preparing that } food for use. Every one knows how con- tinuous and how arduous this is, and herein lies a great waste of force. What further waste of force there may be in doing the family washing, ironing, millinering and sewing Mr. Atkinson does not touch upon, and he nor any one can Measure what the waste of force in any of these industries is, only as an exchange of services establishes its value. I have percelved in my own experience that a computation of the force women expend in domestic labor will eventually result from the engagement of women in werk outside the home. A woman who has established the fact that her services are worth 3 a week in a profession cannot be logically content to expend her force in doing the work of her household until she has proved that her energy thus expended 1s earning what It Is worth. In order to make a com- parison and arrive at the fact of the mat- ter, this will necessitate determining the This will Value of Domestic Labor. “TI earn $20 a week at my profession. I can hire a cook for $4 and housemaid for $3. Therefore I waste $18 worth of myself in attempting to do my own housework.” She may even consider the matter more broadly and reason further: “I not only waste $13 worth of myself in such a transaction, but society at large loses the benefit not only of that waste measure of my ability, but also what meas- ure of loss the cooks and chambermaids suffer in consequence of my having placed myself In competition with them.” Having proceeded thus far in the arith- metic of domestic economics, the profe sional woman strikes an awful snag. I'm black and blue and half crazy from run- ning against and stranding on it myself. In pursuance of my calculation, T have hired my cook and my housemaid, and resumed my professional duties; then'I dis- cover that such ts the inefficiency of la- bor in the home, to supply this Inefticlency so much of my energy, of my time and thought must be diverted from my profes- sion that I In turn become inefficient, and my commercial value is conditioned by the incompeterzy of women whose sole means of support in If work. It becomes thus a matter of selfish In- terest to understand the reason of this in- 3 tency and to overcome it. I hava figured this out at any desk, but I into the kitchen and proved incompetent servants are the direct e is doing house- not have gone that and inevitable consequence of the Hotten- tot domestic policy which decrees that poor equipment and unskilled labor shall provide all the necessities of a household. The whole trouble with servants, amid which every woman suffers aloud’ or in s‘lence, results frcm considering domestic labor as exempt fyom the conditions of labor In general, and seeking to make a sort of sanctifying slavery out of it in- stead of administering its affairs accord- ing to business rule. “A Jack of all trades is master of none.” This is equa'ly true of a Jenny. Specialization of talent and correspond- ing division of labor is the plan of organ- ization on which labor in general pro- Sresses. To incorporate this plan in the heusehold requires first of all that girls and women should go to school and learn whatever branch of home industry they checse to engage in, as a man learns olvil engineering or Greek. The privileges of apprenticeship are as little possible for an pay | or | ot} Suspect that If we were to | wel production and | girls row as boys. The capable housekeep- er, a tradition of whose aspirations good wemen still seek to keep in their lives, is @ repidly disappearing iretitution, and at the tead of homes of today are women either tco busy outside, or too worthless, to train girls they may press into their service. Once begin educating girls as thoroughly and expensively in various branches of housework as they are now educated in various professiors, and their application to the actual problem of labor in the home will instantiy develop the impossibility of one woman doing well more than one branch of it. It will also result in equip- ping domestic labor with tools and labor- saving devices, such as are now provided as matters of luxury in the homes of wealth alone. Egotism of Women. You frequently hear unkind mention made of the egotism of man, as if he were the chief egotist of creation. But for colossal, corrupting and consuming egotism com- mend me to a woman—the good woman who thanks heaven she can do something of everything and sniffs at the practical hu- mility of the woman who preaches the wisdom of aiming to do one thing well. When these fatal egotists shall have fall- en where they now stand before the on- ward march of the true new woman, I have beautiful day dreams of the Utopia, the rule of « universal sisterhood that is to follow. The sister who is a born schocl teacher and no kind of breadmaker will assemble the tots of the neighborhood in her home and teach them happily, while another wo- man who is a genius at breadmaking will bake her bread. Still another sister who sews exquisitely, knows how and loves to, will put her working time in sewing, and pay another sister who has a genius for 1t to do her marketing. Each one will do her best and utmost, not selfishly for her and hers, but with broad economy and ev widening love for all who need the fruits of her efforts and who serve her needs in turn, Yes, doubtless my Utopia will dawn a very distant day; but I don’t mean to quit believing in it and pointing to it because I shall not live to see it. IT want the little girl-who-made-her-own-shirt-waist to be- Neve in it, too, and before this little girl Beis a y from me I want te tell her some- thing else. Tam glad you made a shirt waist, and I hope you'll never wear a ribbon collar with it. In everything you make and in eve thing you wear, think of tli Have it clean, have it su simple, have it serviceable. moral obligations of a woman's dri fulfilled, then, if you be beautiful, The ribbo} » flimsy stuffs, the supertluc ttachments I sce girls - men we E rve all other unsui of what they with more despair of my of bloonne less wife house in prefere The si evils, th wear, fills. me sex than the sigh ele, or of the life a to a bie sight chil ling EWN. T have been trying for some time past to Kk a law that should govern the manufacture of my own cloth and Un pretty nearly satistied to make it this: Don’t get anything to wear that mi not gly be given toa poorer woman if you do not realize the horrible off ene-s, the sin of ge nd ding finery in connection with poverty, v homes in the lirst alley you come across rn. Here you will doubtiess learn 1g, too, of the political economy of aman, both an artist and a , on this you need to know: if you area young lady, and employ a certa number of Ss for a given time in ma number of and serviceable dresses, s of which you can wear one f the winter, and giv poor girls who have’ none, you your mo mnselfishly, But ify the same number of umber of da autiful ounces f dress, the real politicc tion of your fine toilet i have had a certain ing four, five r your own ball nomical signifi just this—that you num of people put for umber ef days wholly un by the s of an! cold; and yo said to them: ‘I will fced you, indeed clothe you and give you fuel for so many days, but during those days you shail work for me only: your little brothers need sloties, but shail make none for them nd needs clothes, but ake none for her; you y . iit you shall ou shall make and t tn ‘Tt may to do this, their work we haps benevolent pay for Privolity in Dress, a th which you come, by usand t have paid the act of But have time, to work only f . when, by purchase, you have i : n with the strength 0 d taken for your own Nfe 2 pa of cthers. So long as there are ¢ nakedness in the land around you, frivolity in dress is a crime. in dy when we have to work at. it ma lace a are time, othing better to set people y be right to let them make ut Jewels, but, as long as thery who have no bl ets for leds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it nket-making and tailoring we must rk at—not lace and pe able fir You see, lit shirt-waist, w ter into the ¢ sewing. As for you, madam, who pity me because I'm not able to make out the paper pattern of today. and who peacock yourself hecaus you “sew and fix over a great many thine: and “make a pretty gown out of what you would be ashamed to take to a dressmaker, you are absolutely and eternally outside any hope of reasoning with you, so, a Somebody-or-other advises, merely preach and leave you to your conscience, trusting a miracle may one day inform you that not only economy, but the divine virtue of charity might be served if you were to figure out intelligently and broadly the cost of the pretty gowns you pride yourself on making. And as for you, the woman who draws a ravishing picture of how a maa loves to see his wife do her own sewing, you are an old maid. If you had had any experience with men you would know that men hato the sight of sewing as much as they do spring housecleaning, and any man who doesn't—well, not the meanest truth I ean tell about him fs, he does fancy work him- self. fe PAULINE PRY. > Written for ‘The Evening e-girl-who-makes-her-own- at very serious qu ns en- pparently simple matter of r You Can’t Reverse the Engine, John, By Hosea Bigelow, Jr. Ob, Yankee Doodle is the tune, That's goin’ round the world ‘The stars and stripes" plaguey soon Be everywhere unturled, Hawaji's gor president And’ Cuba's chance Is fair: —You can't reverse the engine, John The music's in the alt. Georze Washingion! Well, time would fatl; ‘The thing ts old to tel 'Twas he that caught the Ion's tafl And made the critter yell, And Jefferson, one of our lights, He writ that dockerment: —You can’t reverse the engine, John— To which all men assent. Joun Adams, too! Oid Sink Er Swim! He made a speech, one day— And Daniel Webster qnoted him, In Boston town, they say. If God has given men their rights, They're right to take ‘em, too: You can’t reverse the engine, Joba-= Named Yankee Doodle Doo. ae Conceded. From the Indianapolis Journal. Iceman—“We are selling ice at a loss right now.” Mrs. Wickwire—'I believe you. I’m cer- tain that the fifty-pound chunks you leave have suffered a loss of from six to eight pounds before I get them.” ———+e+____ The Unnumbered Texas Coloncls. From the Galveston Daily News. The correspondent who inquires how many colonels there are in the state of Texas cannot be definitely answered. Cul- berson received about 215,000 votes in 1894, but some of them deserted him before his inauguration. His vote in 1896 will approx- imate the number of Texas colonels. | ‘how 1 cli | | i i | i i FOR A SEA VOYAGE Hints Drawn ie the Experience of a Traveled Woman. THE KIND OF CLOTHES 10 TAKE There is a Deal’ of Comfort in a Flannel Wrapper. ABOUT SEASICKNESS HE EXCURSION has assumed propor- tions which the old- time vender of Fourth of July lem- onade never dreamed of. The Sunday school picnic has de- veloped from a trip to the woods or a near-by lake through the annual excursion to Niagara Falls or this city, until now ‘ . » nothing will satisfy th’s thirst for co-operative sight-seeing but a voyage to Europe or a visit to the Holy Land, ‘Time was when only the millionaire could enjoy the privileges of seasick 1ess and for- eign hotels, but now the prudent school ma’am may see Europe and possibly Ca- thay on the savings of a year or awo. The exodu as begun of round-trippers who have bought tickets, for tran tion, boarding, lodging and entertainment during a voyage from here to Usypt and back, including all interesting points that intervene, for $575, One's sympathy out to these wanderers who are about to start upon a journey not knowing what they shall eat or where they will lay their dis for weeks to come, yet certain to come to a realizing sense that they are as y in the hands of the potter in the on to the manager of the trip, and th must, eat the eh provided, or go) hu the mere thought of a voyase veean is sulficient to obscrce th antages beforehand, and then the How in ount to eny Seypt,” o is recom- res t ured. acqu, pe or the sufte h bed and Gree.an fare, to speak of the mar | tyrdom of i Kk and weary traveler who longs to rest one day in a fore rushing on t> fresh fie new. What to Wear on the Ste As to what is the correct war European trip, nearly every one who bas ever crossed the ocean has the same cpin- icn, that the less there is of it the bet That women agree so perfectly upon thi matter may be due to their innate propen- quiet Spot be aud pasta or. be for a sity for outwitting the customs officers, It would not be possibie for them to bring so. much dutiable goods back with them if their trunks were. filled with American weariag apparel) Every one says: “Limit the number of pieces of baggage to one Steamer trunk, one large satevl and a grip.” Many who go for a short vacation 1 the irank, carrying only a change of ercl thing and a few necessa arucies | n the darse satchel, What to wear important 40 consider. F hing to suit the cl ith js the uture espa Lbecde ritis easy | nate on Uh is ry $s very penctrat- a lady of good lress of stout plain, with an Lup Gight. [shold pre capes because a 4 Practical tints. “For as L should have two hats, | one trimmed sailor te wear on deck on ivight days. the other a close-titting cap to wear while reclining in the steamer chair, A Tam would also be an appro- priat ex have two suits of under in hts to suit both hot and woolen is always preferal there i exposure bn with cotton haps high, waterproof shoes would better than low shoes, but 1 should haye wppets anyway, for iUs very hard to wrap on ven in a steamer rug. A steamer rug and chair are necessities, and neit is very expensive. two we be- to cold with “To wear in one vin or even on decic when wrapped in a rug I should have a lcose flannel wrapper of some pretiy, | bright color, but made ver in; if cne i ck fancy fripperies but aggra- vate one’s distr probapili that T should wear the wrapper ottener than the dress, es few days of the vo! > these mi: age.” 1 be added a few comforts, such as a pillow or a light shawl or scar: to throw over the head when the breeze is very strong. Some people recommend an air pillow on account ef its shrinking capacity. When not inflated it’ may_ be folded up and carricd in the pocket. ‘This docs no: scem exactly suited to the e: gencies of a sea voyage, however, for when inflated the pillow is, of course, very light, and should a gentie sea breeze happen, along at just the right moment, the air pillow, uniess it were provided with a hall and chain attachment, would soon fit off into space, balloon fashion. Appropriate Costumes. One of the very be: tt wraps on ship- board is a fur cape, for the strongest wind cannot penetrate it. Among the costumes I have just mentioned, a gray boucle was fitted with a lamb's wool cape and a gray Tam o' Shanter. Another tume had a Scotch plaid skirt, in which red and green were the predominating colors, with rough brown jacket and velvet trimmings. A long steamer coat covering the entire dress looked serviceable and warm; it was gray, with black trimmings and comfort- able pockets. A light tan covert cloth had a trim look about it that cnly the tailor-made gown can have. Aside from one 's wardrobe the chief topic of conversation among prospective yoy- agers and their'friénds is how to prevent seasickne Sime" say not to eat any- thing, others a‘ivisé eating all the time. Here is one mote Variation: Never begin_a‘voyitge on an empty stom- ach. Eat whenéveF hungry, and saturaie everything with cayenne pepper. Tho pep- per stimulates the stomach and prevents that terrible nausea,’ of which no one who has not experiénced it has any compre- hension, and robolly who has will ever ferget. Her, Theater Hat, From the Chicago Posty It had just come from the milliner's. “It's magnificgnt!"" exciaimed her dearest friend. “I haven't seen a more beautiful theater hat this yeur." But it did not satisfy her. Her dearest friend might rave ever it, but she knew that there was something wrong with it. “It is high enough,” she said, “but it lacks breadth. I do not believe that it would cut off more than cne person’s view from the stage.” Then she ordered the necessary altera- tions to make it a perfect theater hat. ser Didn’t Keep De Luxes, An amusing example of the ignoranco of booksellers is related by the Literary World. Searching for a de luxe copy of rilby,” a correspendent called at a well- known establishment, and on asking if they had a copy, received the answer: “We have Du Maurier's ‘Trilby,’ but do not keep De Luxe’s.” This is almost as bad pn the steamer is the most | first considera | drinks. Fruit and healthy look on the from trial. well as though sewed with cable cord. belt should be an inch higher ilate. artificial means must be adopted, is the very simplest. worse by the attempt to lengthen the w: in the back, at the expense of the front. A side view of such a person is a laughter- convulsing sight. spit ng are unsightly. 0! as the inquiry for an epidemic (academic) dictionary which not long ago startle a bookseller’s assistant. 66 @ SOSSSCHOOOS MAYER BROS. & CO., 937-939 F Street. Many Big Bargains for the » First Week in June. We'll celebrate the beginning of the summer months with a reduction sale of marvelous proportions. We've cut prices right and left. You know the goods we offer you— you know there are no better in town. You know what buying best goods at these prices means. i HATS REDUCED. We've taken the lead with Hats this season. The stocks we show—the varieties they give for a choice and the prices we quote leave nothing to be desired. Panama Sailors 4 Sale Price, $1.25. 7 A fled with é } i ld f. 51 KO, $1.25 and $1. , Sale Price, 6gc. me Ladies’ Bievele 1 5 Worth all of $1 Sale Price, 89c. One tere tabl } sold ark €) Sale z ~ and SSe, Price, 49¢.. Short Back I yy nant ilors—one of the , Sale’ Price, g8c. up Hand $2. Price, g8c. : Imported Tewtorn Pats with tace edges, very pretty and stylish, 99-cent } Sale Pri | Sale Price, soc. oF Strtw Alpige Hats, trimmed and lined. si *, Sale Price, Children’: Tt Sale Price, $1.69. Garden Hats 1 white only, , Sale Price, 2c. Sale Price, 12%c. Sale Price, 25c. that sell Sale Price, 23C. Ribbons Reduced. Hats that 8, nicely trimmed. d> up of Hats that yard. : TT st Ribbon bargain ever Sale price, 17¢. f ilats that were Fi et ats that wer Sale Sale Price, Umbrellas Reduced. Sale Price, 44¢ stand filled with 26-in. Englii Sale: Price, Sale Price, $1.31. Flowers Reduced. ‘Thousands of bunches of loses, Violets, Palms, Pansies, ete. az in value from ents to 75 cents bunch, ple filled with Roses, Dal- It Flowers worth from 85 5 bunch. A large tab siex and Fi cents to § atin Violets in white, cream, natural and yellow, 3 dozen to a bunch. 3¥c. valu No matter how low a you'll have quoted you on Ribbon, it's invariably the case that we quote a’ price lower, No. 50 Albsilk Taffeta Ribbon in black, white and orth 2 cents @ You'll find on trays filled with and Gros G wide, BALe IP No. a ur Ribbon count Patter Alleaitk Satin Price, 15¢. h All-silk Satin A lot of Ladi Gloria Umbrellas, Gloria Umbrellas that sold at §1 94c. A stand of Ladies’ 26-in ria SE inbred saaee handles, paragon frames. English Glo- I sticks, Intest $2.00 values, shedule t ‘ou wish to in Take ple . ut more especi of food th ho rich pastry. Sumner with desserts of ripe tt ne in hot it heavy for most not to say injurious if taken wh+ tired or overheat. Hot arin be avoided, hot tea when one is tired excepted. Neither should one go to the other xtreme 1 take to ice-coid drinks want and If you cool to make your s restful for thi | make covers for all the furnit the curtains at windows. rim prints and steel engravings, then take your ease. gather There will 1 dust and The ideal life is that whi ason and the place to self. It is said that a dish of vinegar placed stove and kept simmering while cabbage is cooking will prevent the odor filling the house. It is worth the A little women who eats onions religious- ly for her complexion declares that half a cup of black coffee will destroy onion scent on the breath, even if you've eaten a peck. It might be weil to try the remedy on one’s small brother first, perhaps. You will find the heat less oppresi eat mealtime if you will have clean linen and a neatly set table. way toward making eating supportable in hot weather. It really goes a long This is the way one shirt-waist girl keeps ‘soul and body” together: She anchors her waist to her petticoats first, both back and front, with a safety pin. of her dress skirts made moderately tight and fastens it over the shirt waist; pulls ‘Then sne lifts the dress skirt s back and pins it to the waist and corset strings with a long black-h She fastens it on cach side the Then she takes the belt, which she preve to have like fast mm front, and, putting the other end around hi skirt belt, and smooths down, and pins it. She has the belt then all around. ightly in the the waist down evenly aded belt pin, same wa her waist, and pins one end draws it smooth! over the When she gets that done she is dressed as she had the skirt and waist She says that the the back than in front, and that is a French idea that American girls will do well to assim- If women stood properly there would he no sag in the back, but they do not, so and that A bad form is made t. Keep your rooms dark while the morning sun is on them and you will find them much more habitable in the evening. There may be things more discouraging and distressing than a whining woman, but history has not recorded them. The mother who is constantly whining and ding, nagging and fretting, loses all influence over her children and alienates all her friends. Sweet sixteen, if you are going to take up the fad of making this a “white summer” take a bit of advice, and make it a ‘‘clean” white summer. There {s nothing prettier for young girls—or older ones—than pure white, but it must be spotless and perfect- ly laundered. A dress that is soiled about the bottom fs a thing to taboo. And limp sleeves that are streaked with much per- There is a famil: four girls in Washington who have solved the problem of affording white attire most admirably. Seven white dresses each, and at least four a week in the wash was such an enormous lot of laundry that it was about to break their father up. So the: bravely declared their intention of “doing” their own dresses, On Tuesdays they are invisible to anybody outside of the family. The cause could be found in the big family dining room, where a gas stove and four jolly > discom- tired these een white dresses. You'd never *t that amateur hands did it, either, those dresses on the street. It Wouldn't be a bad idea for some other girls | re rs purse and their by doing some of s, either. | chalet, | From the Westorinst of legumes, butter, bread or oat ca’ ery, raisins or dates, nuts would be neither tasteles expen: | tious. Jt is a common notion that a vegetarian must eat enormously and have the diges- tion of an ostrich. | take. re thirst-quenching | tting room | mmer at | small expense, get green and white chintz a Then put white matting on the floor, & down all the big heavy picture a few framed if you like, so that they are goud, | end no hangings to stuffy, and not half the cleaning to da that | there would be with heavy floors. itself to the un- | smi] | arpets on the | adapts | cess is necessarily not digested. Nature takes what she requires and leaves the rest. Moreover, a too rapid digestion of food is not desirable. From the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. It's a wee bit shocking perhaps, but it’s awfully funny, the remark of a dear little old-fashioned lady from the country who ventured course of lectures last winter. her city relatives took her to hear Robert 3%. Inger: ture x tence, and the next day she lis tened to a lecture on hygienic underwear | proved Well, chemise! And she went back to Huckleberryville a wiser but a sadder woman, Soa AN are combining to make pri nt | >-— STION OF DIET. mple vegetarian meal might consist cel- town, nd ripe pears, Such a diet . indigestible nor sive, and would certainly be nutri- rawberries, ete. such and ials. singer. But thi is quite a mis- jal condiuions im- orate a nature. It requires also ‘thus, pure al- | the clot We may be made ; 2 Very Experiments as to the not desirable. ven if correctly conducted, may entire which we daily re- The latter is of various kinds, For instance, starch is slow If more al- | tended, soe 4 Modern Iconoclasm, u. Tracy, Stony into Boston dissipation via a tion One night the oll express his views on the fu- chairs a dress reformer. “The combination | before She—“Why is it that some men are so calm and “Probably they are not expected to be accepte SS S@SSCSOOSS SOD SHOSOESS Suits Reduced. make all necessary wlterations free. English Denim Bicycle ing of skirt, jacket and bloomers, fancfly trimmed in’ buttons. Sale Price, $4.50. white, box Jackets, 5-yard skirt, yalues. Sale Price, $1.89. Waists Reduced. Percale Waists, with high elite collars, auranteed colors. bishop sleeves, value, Sale Price, 75c. Skirts Reduced. Sale Price, $1.25. Hosiery Reduced. tan and white a spliced heels ai Sale Price, 25c. Collars Reduced. s in all the latest shapes Sale Price, 11¢. Shirt Waist Sets. Silver-plated Sets. Worth Black and White Euamel Sets. Worth 2sc. Leather all colors Sale Price, 19¢. Kid Belts worth 3 Sale Price, 19¢. educed. Tecks in black Ties R Price, 19¢. Gloves Reduced. Sale Price, 25¢. Sale Price, 65¢ Handkerchiefs Reduced abroidered Handker 124y-ceny Sale Price, 7c. Chiffon Bargains. Sale Price, 9c. MAYER BROS. & CO 937-939 F Street. RECIATED TRIBE And it Mad era Singer Sc At La Gre performer was nadvertently al joke which indispos who ha local local singer belongs to all has a host of friends, the secret or esteem. All the came At the end were loud and contin ed calls for the local In the confusion the leadin Such a meal as we have mentioned | ‘Stinguish may be casily digested, even by a person living under the artific | posed by modern life on dwellers in towns. ‘The human intestine is longer and larger than that (for instance) of a lion, and does not require food of either too concentrated or too bulky | a due admixture of foods. bumen to starve on cheese. relative solubility of animal and vegetable albumen, ¢ be in the highest degree deceptive. The an:ount of albumen 3 guire is relatively small, and needs a large | usher, but as his agitation w quantity of respiratory food tc be taken with it. which differ very much in the rapidity of their action. and alcohol is quick in produsing its effect aS a Supporter of combustion. bumen be taken than Is required, the ex- iz man did not granted that he was being ¢ led for, step- the curtain and m ped befe large tray of a small tablecloth. ed out another stop in his smile, and, lift- ing the tray with one hand and remc the cloth with the other, disclosed to view choice collection bages, carrots, onions and other delicacies of the season. White with indignation he ¢! covered with a apkin the size The gentleman pull- harged the collection with the force of a ( the head of catapult at the retreating aim was correspondingly nobody was hurt. Later the real situation was explained to him, and after due ac- knowledgment on the part of the person the bouquets were really the performance triumphant close. for whom General Grant's Last Cigar. From Scribner Men of the greatest prominence, such as S. Grant, . Jay Gould, Leland Stanford, William C. F. Knapp, Ford for two or time, and devoting sunlight to an examina- of the horses, discussion of bre party room upstairs y and Sheppa Gays at a ding topics. After dinner Frequently too much for the dear old lady. | smoking she exclaimed, ‘‘no hell and no | and if its wal What is the world coming to?” | oom that ex-I