A Woman's Dress

Bob Buriïette, in the course of ao article in tbe Burlington Hawkeye od the rights and wrongs of' woiuen, says : Our wife wanta a dress. After two or three or half ;t dozen btores have been rausackcd Por goods, the dressmaker ia soughtout. The matter of ineasureuieot istedioua, and then tlie luattorof tittingisoneof numerous and repeated trials, l-'inally the dress is finished and and sent home. Tucn is sent back to be taken in here and let out thcre, and at last, alter the custoiuer has been fitted ïuore times ('or that one dress than her husband has been measured lor thrce or four years, tho dress comes home for the last time and is pronounccd ly the wearcr, her fiicnds, and the dressmaker as a beautitul and perfect fit, and is finiuhed. Beautiful it certainly is, f'ar uiore bcautiI ui than anything her husband ever wear. Colora and material, style, blending shades and contrasting bits of color, are all in the perfect ion of good taste. No man can imnrove upon that. Hut it isn't finishcd. When it is coaiplcted as far as the skill of the dresainaker can finish it, and it is put on, it has to be pinned. Somewhere ; t-ouietirues in two or three, (ift.cn in h al I' a dozen places. It always reqairM a pin. Leavc out the pin and the d re.se is all awry soiucwherc. On all this broad continent theic ia not one American miman who can dress 80 U to make any kind of an appcarancc in eood society without piw, Now, suppoae our tailor would send our ¦uit home, and wlicn wc liad put on the coat we had to pin it at the back ? Or suppose there was no suspender buttons aft, and we had to use pin there? iSuppose he made our shirts so we would have to pin on the collar- how lonj; would such a shirt or suit of elothoHstay in the house? Who would be responsible for the lanL'ii'iL"' used by the man who bad to pin bis e )at ? No tailor would so dare to tempt the wrath of an independent man. Hut wüiiian - alas, she patiently pins on the dre8S that she paid souie one $'M) or $40 to make, and doesu't think anytliinr about it. Vu will DOt pur.-uc this painful subject. Let the women of Aiuerici take it up, and think about it, and learn, in the noble indepundence of wotuanhood, to make their olothes before they put theui on. Judge Bluck is quoted as sayiog of GeD. Garfield's raother: " She is a sterliüg, admirable wotuan, who has done herlife-work well uodcr very disadvantageous circumtunees. Sliu has heard it fhuader a great iimny times in her lile."