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Show 'Dress Well. It's-Patriotic Woman's Duty!; Says Geraldine Farrar-andShows Us How '" ' " t e' x ,mv,'i 1 ifrti fj Well Gowned Woman Pre-aerrei Pre-aerrei Morale at Well at the Food Conserver!' By Geraldine Farrar Written socially for The Telegram. Every time I read he a.iae handed out by mere men to women on not buying any new clotbee, and paten. iig up their old t hinge, and avoiding buying new ahoaa and hate. 1 feci like saying Rot. I saw a letter the other day from a woman who wanted all the women to go - without raela wear low h.ert ahoea.-If ahoea.-If we wear nhoea at all. and ap.ear In troueorettee for the duration of the war. Nothing could be more silly. Of course the woman who worka In a machine shop, or drtvee hore on a farm, or does any- other tabor which renutrws It, should dreae spproprlately In Irous-1 Irous-1 ere. Hut for the great maaa of women to think that they must abandon beauty la coatume ! abaurd. Aa a matter of fact women ought to dreae their beat they ahould dreae for : victory. Ireaaing well In wartime Is a patriotic duty. j What eUe la It except aheer affectation affecta-tion and pope for me or for the majority I of women to put on fthakj In an effort io j look like a eoldier? What would happen, too, tf we all euddnly atopped buying! the thlnge that we. have been accnatorr.ed I to buy, end begun buying troueerel tee In j khaki and olive diab? Thouaattde of! bualnesa houaea would fall, and tht price j of khaki and olive riibb cloth would shoot j akywerd. I eaidee the government needa all thia material for lha army. i noma biliicne of taxea. and war lorine coma from auoh earentlal indue! Hea aa the dotht' S buainoea. If every woman ; tn the I n td Htatea atotped buying clothea hoar could these ah ope eupport tua i government ? But aaide from tha economic queetion, the effect would ba bad aH around. A ' woman a morale depervda a great deal en I the fit of the aull acid the atvle of the i ahoea and hat ahe ia wearina. What ' would we lock like if we all went around ; dowdy, patched up and coreetleaa' Kvn Irene ;aatle coildn't do It succeaptfully. -Then think what we owe lo our men Do you suppoee lhat when my liueand haa been off on the road -for aix mnntha, 1 let htm come home and find me in a potty, tailor made alz monihe old? I ' do not Neither ahould any woman Do j you anow the effect on a tired huaband who enmee home in the evening to find I hie wife In wraper and apron? And after a aiege in the trenehee. do we want our : , teen coming home lo bnaranal. unlovely ' women, arrayed In worn-out, uut-of-aiyl, patched up and dirty garments?. We do not : , It la Juat aa much a part of otir morale aa a nation to keep our women well dreaaed aa It is o coneerve fond. "I do not mnn we ehoulrt bewaeful; I do not mean that we ehould upend on dreae mora than we ran afford. I rin mt mean that we ehoiM aacrirv-e t merely 1 being pretty any thin eeaenllal t rouree. If the time oonea when we mut wear papor clothea. and uae ration card, we will do it Hut even In bnitletorrt Vrmnc the women have made a M. nf of . wearing e harming frecke throua'"u the ' war. ao that the men on furluuch nur'it refreah their eyes and go back with r- . kindled ardor to the fiahl In defenae of beauty and love a id romance, aa well as of their country. "We In America, In an undevaitated, rich, strong, unnrld country, h no g i eacuse to let ouraelvea dowa to dreej and ; appearaoce. j |