Show FOLLOWING THE FASHIONS contributed I 1 in nth this a life of a speed eed which we are rushing through nt at express rates there are a number of things thing that confront the average man of a family that need some strenuous remedies let unlock look at the matter squarely in the face for a few moments W what hat is a fashion but folly of the riar rankest keitt type typed and who are the ones primarily to blame for this condition in a great measure it is falling directly on the mothers now in mothers dont get too exasperated pe rated but it is a fact which will be proven before we get through the mails are am being crowded with all manner of fashion catalogs and the ery cry first thing a mother does ohp when they come in the it house use is to begin devouring the them w with ith a gusto that would do a credit to the most learned of scholars and for what purpose purposed 7 the first thing said is something like this now I 1 do think this dress dresa is just too cute for anything I 1 must get that pattern ana get one for genevieve before mandy gets it and that one that a beauel why I 1 must annat have that let me see lindy also needs a new dress for the class ball next friday night and I 1 want the best for she deserves just sa as good as the others and I 1 am going to see that they have it I 1 must go to the store this afternoon and see if I 1 can get sainto bonn cloth of that kind and so it goes and the poor old man must dig up the money and keep his nose nom on tle te g grindstone rind stone early and late to supply the he demands of the accursed edicts of faehr fashion 0 n Is it any wonder that babylon fell are we any better than the babylon babylonians ianO 7 are we not following in their footsteps just as fast fa I 1 as we can get means to keep up th the killing pace paced if some of the mothers in lareal isreal could see for a few moments the source of some of these them fashions fashion for one daythan day that they are piling on their daughters it would disgust them to or else they would take a first class ticket to and trail some a of their poor benighted daugh ter w with h them bet because ause that was the fashion fashion and it certainly is the f mh fash ion in too on greats great a measure and the fashion of dress is only one of the many bearry let us view a few of the them there the a was a erv cry significant re parde mark made at one of our dunces nances recently by a man who has had a world of experience as he be was looking on at the dance he said in my younger ulger days it took a lady two hours hour to dress for the ball but now ic looks as if they spend that much time or more are to undress for thi m b ball all T this his is a mild way of put trail ting it ani and who he is to blin blamed niev mothers do you know what you are data doing g when you yon let you daughters tie go to balls and bartles with such h outrageous costumes on where they are liable to meet up with all sorts of men of the world who he care not one whist for virtue or honor and oil who have been used to the things thing of the world from om a W worldly mans standpoint 7 but B ut says on one mother I 1 r my daughter dress dres out ofa f the way and there are hundreds of nf others who a are m so rach much worse than she is and be besides des one must keep up a blittle atle with the he latest fads why what a palt paltry lame excuse to hide behind dodou do you as a mother eer e lattene attend these fanty fancy balls or participate in the parties ana see for yourself just what is gome going on and the lengths to which these things are carried carriedo 7 it is 13 truo tt the matter of the Is fas hiona is a hard thing thine to govern or control but it can be done right at home and there only as it can never be controlled in the public halls and just juat so long as aa the mothers are more foolish than the girls just juat so long can we expect to see this abominable thing rampant among our young people gradually devouring them like a hydra traded monster then when it is 13 too late we will sit down and bemoan the fact that our girls have been led away hy by others and brought down to disgrace when the very seeds of suggestion were fostered in our own homes where do these latest fads of fashion come area from is eased asked go and ask the of the lowest dives and hellholes hell holes of paris pans and and new york or an other large or city ty where there the word morality is almost lost loat sight of and you have bour answer such things are am not immoral but they go to such a length that they become unmoral mothers in israel what are you doings haye have you so lost finer feel ing of motherhood that all sense ol of the in finate is swallowed up in the mad race after dame fashion fashio nl when you were girls did you go to balls and parties undrea undressed ted in such damnable garbs as aa you now help to construct for your daughters to wear or did you then have a por par tion of the spirit of decency and anc modesty enough to tomake make you look with shame on the suggestion of such thing riv why not then still maintain that tha high ideal of modesty and help to raise the standard of our young people instead of lowering it as aa is being done every day nowa think thin of it tri it what hat it means and map mean to future generations these are a some of the things that we will have to meet sooner or later and why not begin now and not after the irreparable damage is done |