| Show nA Dress Album A dress album is made by having a book of good thick paper such as is made for mounting photographs and in it pasting a scrap about two inches square of each new dress which the owner purchases Under each sample is written the date when the dress was first worn and the cost may also be added in cipher for private I pri-vate reference Imagine for a moment that your mother had always kept such a record could anything be more fascinat Isg than to turn over its pages and look with pleased interest at the bit of pink gingham which she wore to her first picnic or the scrap like the lavender silk which she had on the day she first met your father for the first time Could any thing be more interesting than stories of your mothers youth thus illustrated Now for the practical side If a girl starts a dress album and keeps it carefully I an sure thta the result will be to make her more prudent and economical in her purchases pur-chases as she sees before her a faithful mirror of her expenditure Will not her heart sink for shame as her eyes fall upon a sample of the heliotrope nuns veiling which she insisted on buying against her mothers advice and which one bright sun faded beyond remedy An object lesson like this will do more good than a thousand lectures A thoughtful girl will begin to consider as she looks over her album whether she is doing right to spend so much money on her dress while so many good causes are stand ing still for want of means and before she buys a new dress she will ask herself Do I really need it1 not Will it be pretty and becoming So by all means begin to keep a dress album and do tlot fail to learn from it the lessons in prudence and economy which it will teach to a think ing mind As you show it to your friends I think that you may safely say notwithstanding notwith-standing Solomons assertion see this is new |
