Show HOME FASHIONS ENJOYING till PRESENT it 11 would mould be placing too high an estimate t I 1 upon the external things of 0 lite life to say that our highest pleasure comes from being well dressed yet every woman will confess that slie she derives a great deal of pleasure from sath factory clothes perhaps wo we do not tully fully realize how much we owe our dressmaker and milliner tor for the small enjoyments enjoy ments 0 of a our skill r I 1 dally ally life we think that after wo we have hae paid our bill we slave have canceled all our indebtedness but if 1 we stop to think ot of the tact fact that every time we look in the glass and this happens at least once every d day a y we derive a sense dense ot of pleasure sure thus we may become conscious ot of an indebtedness that money maney cannot entirely liquidate one very writer has said that hat we never keep an account of our joys hut but count with great exactness all our should we add up tor for a year all the comfort and satisfaction we have had out of our clothes we would be surprised at the sum total it Is tho the small things of 0 life that make or mar our tempers tempera and it la is a wise visto woman w m lie ho sees to it that she gets all she file can out ot of each cacti days enjoyment she Is not only better satisfied with her own amok life hut but la is in a frame of mind to help hell all around her A new broom sweeps cleanest but an all auld yan kens the corners of the hoose hooie best the popular idea ot of getting pleasure out of our clothes Is centered in the brand newtown or bonnet but like many other of our theories experience disproves tile the general sentiment it if the vulgar desire to be seen in a new garment was tile the only one that we were mere capable of then the new gown would claim our affections 0 chions but we are certain that we really enjoy our clothes more after the nev newness nes b has tat A worn off find and we feel unconscious us 0 of f being looked at simply for what we ire are nearing for mu much C h as we like our wardrobe we do not wish it to lo take lake the precedence of our own personality we ve would mould rather that our friend liked us for what we happen to be than v aliat liat we look like every womans comans dress should be made to contribute to I 1 er own batis satisfaction faction rather than to to tile the admiration or envy ot of her whatever the character chai acter of al a new rown gown may be we do not look upon it as a part 0 of us like we ne do tile the older one some at 0 the greatest occasions i f our lives cairy with mith th them a lemeni branci of what ilat I 1 wore the bride thinks of her wedding dress with tin affectionate remembrance or says pays I 1 wore vol e such and 0 uch such a gown tho the first time I 1 met lyl my y husband and it if the union has haa apen bee it a happy one the dress shares with the other pleasant recollection 9 thoro there seems to be it a tendency among the tile AuF fashion lilon writers to advise won women ken to have their street dresses mida made 0 of tho the best material so that they may he be worn for or two or three years yenry and these Is in no reason why by this itin should not n 0 t be to done it if in the first farat place the dress drca was the perfection 0 the ma manufacture facture rii rs and dressmakers ra art we ive do not discard our furniture or our pictures because they are out of 0 style it if I 1 ne e like ike them we me still use them and enjoy them and L 11 why ully not wear aut ut our gowns A creat deal of time la Is consumed in the hie selection of materials and alli styles and find themselves interested in no ito many duties that they are getting rid of all the unnecessary y cares tile tho search after 11 somethIng new loan he BO often proved mure in the anticipation than in the thit we me are learning to enjoy the swett pm ent find and like the old daricek y think on our maneles ma reles lebr february uary lf Is the mon month tit i falhen hen me he have tile the most moat time to really enjoy the present and let us ua make the most moat of it whatever admiration wo 0 receive in fro wl we may feel assured that it Is 1 for far gome so I 1 e lasting virtue and let us lou rejoice in the poa PORse islon sillon of that rift |