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Show NAILS IN VIRTUE'S COFFIN. Displays in Show Windows and Love of Chess Cause Women's Ruin. DANVILLE. 111., Oct. 22. Denouncing the tendency of many women to dress In a manner far beyond their means aa harmful to society and declaring that tho extravagantly decorated shop windows arc the first nails In the coffin of virtue, Mrs. George E. Colby of Chicago delivered a remarkable address at the meeting of tho Illinois Federation of Women's clubs. Mrs. Colby's remarks created a furore. She spoke of the prodigality displayed by women In the, matter of dress, and said the shop windows of the largo stores, lllled as they are with their treasures of lingerie and costly dress goods, created tho desire of possession In tho hearts of feminine spectators, hundreds of whom were led to their downfall as a result. "This passion for flno raiment," said Mrs. Colby, "is destroying our homes and dcmorallling society. Horso shows aro a display of gaudily dressed women rather than of horses We should use our Influence Influ-ence to check extravagant expenditures of money for personal adornment. I stand for individual lndepcndcnco In dress and am unalterably opposed to fad slavery." |