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Show Aren't Senators the Knowing People! WHILE debating on the tariff bill the other day several senators found occasion to mention the scantiness scanti-ness of women's clothes. Said Senator Sena-tor Underwood : "In our grandmothers' time the high cost of living had not forced the dresses down to the size of a pocket handkerchief, and they were really wrapped In some clothes that were visible to the eye. "Our grandmothers may not have ridden in automobiles; they may not have been able to buy Florida strawberries straw-berries in the middle of winter. But their health was much better. They lived in more comfortable homes, although al-though those homes may not have been heated by a steam heating plant. Tliey ate better and purer food, and they had more of It. Although they may not have had the latest patterns from I'aris and may not have worn as many clothes, when they bought a woolen suit they bought It cheaper, and it was all wool and not shoddy." "I can imagine some of those good old conditions of which the senator speaks," replied Senator MeCuruber. "I can Imagine the good housewife at midnight with her knitting needles working away until the 'wee small hours' of the morning to make stock- ! lngs for her little brood. It might be that four or five of the children would be stuffed Into a trundle bed that was , shoved under the other bed to keep It i out of the way (luring the daytime. I "In our grandmothers' day, the goix woman was married in her black gown and kept that old silk gown for her shroud. And it was perhaps the only good dress she had for forty or fifty years. I confess I would rather see the conditions rt today." i I |
