Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 28, 1913, Page 3

SOCIETY BN AUROLOONRNURNUBAVAIVTL SPHONE NUMBERS—SOCIETY EDITOR., esseesteese st emmsosoetsonRr Ot e . ] otiess fer ¢he Soclal Department ean be com- Seclety Editer by either of the above telephones. ses to the Besiety Editor, care Evening Telegram. functions, elud meetings, church gatherings and interest should be telephoned to this dopars- they occur im order that their news value is sot - E- E-EXX-XEXERE-B-K-X-] o 00 100 300 00 000 300 1000 00300 G 30K 30 K O W 00K 3% 000 10X 10 3 3¢ MEDY FOR THE PRESENT OF INDECENT DRESSING men in the streets of New York, un- der a misapprehension as to their standing, than ever before in her recollection. No matter how we may blame the unthinking American girl in don- ning the uniform of her sister of the underworld, or her careless mother in her criminal negligence in per- mitting her daughter to do so (or, what is sadder still, dressing her- self in these styles), the right point of attack is at the source of supply. The Paris dressmaker has become a degenerate, and as such it is time that every decent American wom- an should leave his designs un- bought. Thousands of clean.mind- ed and clear-thinking American women are already doing this, and the steady trend toward American fashions for American women, and the wonderfully rapid spread of the idea throughout the country, are the first awakenings of Amer- ican womanhood to the right thing to do. ‘Nor is this trend confined to the American woman. The re- buke being administered to Paris, which particularly this summer her of the American |dressmakers have felt in a marked nchwoman of the |falling off in trade, is world-wide. ent wears these |In Milan the dressmakers are united the hall mark of|in a campaign for Italian fashions e French under- |for Italian women; Spain is stand- pt the Paris boule. | ing for Spanish fashions for Span- nch race courses. |ish women; in Berlin a dressmakers’ nhardt said upon | union has established a school for merica, it was a | German fashions for German wom. to her to see ap- | en; the women of the Netherlands American women | have absolutely refused to buy mimonde of Iaris, | ‘“‘Paris styles” for over a year, and matter of my own |NOW comes London in registering an pinfon; it is an in- |eémphatic disapproval of the Paris t known and ack-|modes. ry American buy- In the absolute loes of its ouce aris and everyome |superb art in dress eesigning, Paris he French fashion |is on the wane, and no one realizes Dwn to every wom- | it more clearly than do her own world in America, | couturiers. So alarmed are these ently sald: “Here | dressmakers over the tide of revolt and women who |in America that three of their lead- skirts when they !ers came over here during the past are dressed exactly ) year “to see what was the matter.” lalong Fifth avenue‘The present outburst of indecent tement—that two dressing from Paris is the last gasp e today dressing |of a vanishing art. Paris, as a fash- ocial service work- | fon center, faces the setting sun. ays ago said that| And never was the time more pro- had been ap.'pitious for the rising of the sun in the last year by America in a firm and complete es- e the opinion of pt styles in wom- Impenetrable enig- pn by even a por- American wom- they come from, t fact the remedy of every decent five years in par- dressmakers have, n the steady de- r waning art in is styles” which ver here. Each py to lower the me more strongly st be said to the nch gentlewoman P’ are neither in- iy her. She scorns pt. They are the gordered minds of 8 who have lost nd decency. have mmercialists, and heir sleeves at the are, as one of the ecently said, see- can go “in mak- THE EVENING TELKGRAM, LAK tablishment of for American women. To say that we cannot design our own women’s clothes is idle talk. We can. We are rapidly accumulating the his- torical works in our libraries and the paintings in our galleries to fur- | nish us with the basis for study the same as did the Paris’/designers ot old. And what we have not here, we can send our designers to the Cluny Museum in Paris and to the great art galleries of the world and secure. No race is more acknowl. edgely skillful in the art of adapta- tion than are the Americans, and it is the exercise of this art that is called for in dress designing, since all modern costume must, of neces- sity, be, and is, based on historical costume. Paris hag always done this; always adapted; never origi- nated. Not a single original fash- ion, per se, has ever come from Paris—it is always based on the cos- tume of other races and nations, either past or present. But the American woman must 'give the American designer encour- agement, She must believe that her own designers know her needs, her temperament, her environment, bet. ter than do the Parisian designers, most of whom have never set foot on American soil, and are not only ignorant of her but are contemptu- ous of her. No Latin race can ever rightfully dress an Anglo-Saxon peo- ple; the temperament, the environ- ment, the climate, the needs—all are different, and it is upon thesc that proper costume rests and is based. Moral conceptions and stand- ards are likewise different. The fresher American mental outlook would be absolutely incapable in thinking in terms of the present de- generate fashions; they are the ex. pression of a tainted Latin temper- ament. Had we years ago, as we are now doing, taken hold of the idea of American fashions for American women and encouraged and accept- ed it, we should not now be reaping the whirlwind of a fetish to let a few commercialists of disordered minds, 3,000 miles away, say what our American girls and women should wear. It is our own fauit that we have allowed this spectacle of indecent dressing to come upon up, and it will be our own fault if we allow it to continue. The rem- edy is perfectly simple—we must turn away from Paris and the clothes of her demimonde and set about to encourage our own design- ers, our own manufacturers, our own dressmakers, our own indus- tries. Then we will conserve two things—own own economic inde- pendence and keep 28,000,000 o/ good American dollars at home where they belong, and our own moral standards --Edward Bok in Colliar’s. WHAT THE PRINTER DID. “My pigmy counterpart,” poet wrote Of his dear child, the darling of his heart; Then longed to clutch the stupid printer’s throa That set it up, “My pig, my counterpart.” —Harpers Weekly. the : Good Cheer— ‘GET WISE” Buy your Matting Now. 5c per vard reduction on all Mattings othing more attractive than a Nicely Furnished Home ee US---we can furnish that home for you and you will 0t miss the money either. List of Contestants in Word Contest: rs. T. J. Mardis 18603 Mrs A. E. Miller : W. H. Austin M. L. McIntosh 10313 Ada Padrick 4437 W.H.Fleming 4336 G. W. Friend Moore 13166 . G.L Crews 11167 Sharpnack 7707 E.R.Trammel 4425 Reed Tillis 4013 J. F. Wilson 1832 AKELAND and HARDWARE 3 TRNITURE 17145 1867 2326 CO. ELAND, FLA., AUG. 28, 1913. American fashions | BOYS AND INVENTORS | ) ; In every period of the world’s history the boy has counted for usefulness, The twentieth century is no exception, Two Brooklyn {school-boys—one fifteen and one sixteen—have effected a wireless- telegraph systm of their own. I'hese young rivals of Marcon may be interested to know that the famous Italian was but four- teen years old when he set up on poles of various heights his first crude apparatus, in which tin biscuit boxes filled important places. Lord Armstrong conceived, as a lad, the idea later developed into the hydraulic crane. Sam- uel Compton began at sixteen the work of devising the spinning- mule, which he finished before he was nineteen. The notion of the cotton-gin came to Eli Whit- ney when he was thirteen. Sir John Brown was a lad of sixteen when he caught the sug- gestion of the conical spring buf- fer for railway trucks, which afterwards made him rich. The list of boy inventors could be greatly prolonged. There are infinite possibilities before the boys who intelligently ask why and how. Having received fair answers, they need but pa- tience and diligence and obser- vance of the common rules of honesty to go on and win. Look for opportunity, boys. and make opportunity win. Tt is just around the corner waiting for you—Boy’s World. Some of Earth’s Costliest, Biggest and Oldest Things— The largest library is the Na- tional, in Paris, which contains 30000000 books. The tallest monument is in Washington, D. D. It is g50 feet high. The highest chimney is in Glasgow, Scotland, and is 474 feet : The deepest coal mine is near Lambert, Belgium, and is 3,500 | feet deep. The largest Egypt—106 feet. The biggest dock is at Cardiff, Wales. The strongest electric light i- at the Sidney lighthouse, Au: trailia, The greatest bank is the Bank of England, London. The oldest college is University College, Oxford. It was establish- ed in the year 1050. The largest college is in Cairo, Africa It has on its register each year over 10,000 students and 310 teachers. ] The largest bronze statue is that of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It weighs some 1,100 tons. : Damascus is claimed to be the oldest city in the world. The most costly book is a He- brew Bible, which is owned by the German government, and which the Pope offered $125.000 for, but which the government of Germany would not give up. Until recently the most costly monolith 1s in medicine was supposed to be me- tallic gallium, $150,000 a pound. But lately radium has far out- stripped it in price, bringing ahout $200,000 an ounce.—Chi- cago Tribune. Is cheer of thy own making? Then make more. Is joy of thy own taking? Take a store. Cheat not thy life of gladness; Spare thy tears; Why cherish thoughts of sad- ness? Why count fears? So free the sunshine fa!’.th, Take thy share. i “Keep heart; keep heart,” hope calleth, “Cease thy care.” Have cheer of thine own making| Day by day; : | Rliss of thine own free taking, | Thine always. Rliss of unselfish living Nobly won; o | The joy of generous giving Like the sun. ~Selected. Nothing to do but woik, Nothing to eat but food, \ Nathing to wear but clothes To keep one from going nude. —Ben King. A little girl who had been out with her aunt heard the latter complain that her feet were tired. “My feet get tired, too, when I go out walking,” said the small maiden, “but [ always think what a nice ride my stomach has been having.”—Chicago Record-Her- ald. Nt S Fio«IDES FOR SAFETY PINS Pretty and Dainty Littls Cushion Has One Feature That Is Something of a Novelty, The accompanying sketch illustrates 8 particularly pretty and dainty little pin cushion. It is triangular in shape, and is made with cream-colored satin and edged with a pale pink silk cord carried into two loops at each of the lower corners. Upon the front a neat and simple floral design is embroid- ered consisting of three pale pink dog roses, with white centers, and leaves worked in various shades of green. At the top of the cushion there is a smart bow of pale pink satin ribbon with & loop of some of the same ribbon ar ranged above it for suspending the cushion from the post of the looking- glass or a nail in the wall. The novel feature about this cushe fon {8 the provision made for safety pins, which consists of four ordinary little key rings.sewn on at the base, and to which the pins may be fastened on in the manner shown. If hooks are sewn on between each ring they will be found very useful for hanging up keys or other small articles. Easy. 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