Show Danger of o f the Craze Ca aze for fos Clothes by b Women Tomen HY IY does docs ono hear hoar this title constant con- con wHY slant stant cry o of at Cant Can't afford to marry wondered grandma a as she sat ant knit knIt- ting surrounded b by the family circle Can it bo that men Wren are unable to Warn oarn so 80 much money moncy ns as they thoy used to to I In m my young dayH days n a man of at 25 5 u was as almost always either engaged or married mar tied ried but now note I 1 am ram told that the matrimonial matri mental ago has been put on at rrt leant ten years because the tho modern man cant afford a tt wife sooner sooner Marriage Is la an extravagance now no nowadays ada aIas s but when you ou wore were young my m dear sold said grandpa looking fondly athIs at athis athla his hla a wife fo of or 50 SO years earH sera a n wife was as a n. real economy In the matter of ot clothes alone you saved covert on mine what I paid for yours I have hae net never er worn a pair of or socks you did not knit Remember 10 how row you used to tl make mako m my shirts and waistcoats and darn and renovate my suits so that drat the they lasted almost forever for tor- ever Think of ot your four our own own clothes Why hy you OU wore your our b bridal dress at rat your our own daughters daughter's wedding turned so you OU told toil me mo for tho rho fourth time Your four fur pelisse which was bought out of at tho the savings of or many years still keeps s you 1 0 warm on wintry day days after atter 36 6 years ears of at careful wear and equally care care- careful careful ful ul repairing of Out nc r. r nut But in these days das tho rho very ery sight ofa of at ofa ata a dress shop or even evert a woman's womans oman x paper IB fa enough to W scare a 0 sensible chap of oft off matrimony broke broko in Teddy thet the t J it grandson andson I 1 believe It Is this craze for or clothes whIch Is IH responsIble for tor so ao many old maids and discontented bach bach- store elors b hW lie r ro fo 1 bo be seems to toi regarded 1 i almost as a n crime I overheard over over- heard two rive girls Is at tho rho Westons' Westons ty night discussing the frock of ot other another an an- other Just look at her frilly skirts skirts said sett ono one such i Yh Rh y Jw I would not t be seen scon dead In fn an antiquated thing sold saId other r. r p Even en n Kath Lath thou though h she has hoe some som o says sas she alto tee foo feels Is s chea cheap p If It her ber he clothes othes are nrc not quite up to date It It is awfully difficult for tor a girl with a 0 small dress dres allowance not to look a a back baele number nowadays protested poor Kath at her brothers brother's sudden attack Tho Tiro fashions aro so co constantly changing that It makes ono one breathless By the time limo I have saved enough mone money to bu buy a now note frock track and am feeling ferling perfectly happy haIp at the rho thought of at having the latest fashion In m my wardrobe the rho mode has chan changed c 11 1 My lly short sleeves ought to be long m my Y gathered skirts should be bo skimpy o or r something else ciao Is equally wrong As s someone remarked the tho other da day It is fa no good buying clothes that thal will call last the they on oral only I get so as old d you OU cant can't wear weer themI them I think what you OU say la Is true truo to a limited extent put in Aunt font Sophy You all live in the tho city In Chicago o you see Bee ao so many fashions that you rot OU t naturally thinks think a good deal about oboe t thorn thom but In the fife country there arc aro still alit 1 plenty of ot girls who live Iho simply an and d dress simply and I think there thero are arc probably runny many in Chicago too There arc are lots of at girls I know who ho love pretty pret pret- pretty ty clothes but realizing that they must bo lle few tow and far tor between they think over even thing out carefully before buying never tr try to tattoo follow an g fashion and do wonders in the way y of at f m making old Id frocks like now hut Matter As to the wives calves and the mothers I kno know I find them usually moro morn Interested inter Inter- interested ested in bob baby's babs s now new clothes than their own Clothes aro of at Importance to them of at course but the tho question ot of fashion CashIon generally slake sinks Into cance be before foro the problem of ot say any 1 baby's welfare and the tho latest modes mode modes modes' of feeding and upbringing are Bre usually moro mare absorbingly Interesting than th the c newest thing In blouses Home happiness happiness and and after aCter all all iha that t is the tho on only 1 kind l which really matters matter rs s Is 1 Is not entirely lr I dependent ep on th the 0 of the tho dressmaker eo BO they thoy Just lust dress as ns nicely and as be becomingly becomingly bc- bc IY as 88 the they can anti and dont don't worry even If It their clothes are arc not the t very cry er y latest litter After all aU t what whal Teddy Tedy calls tit the e craze for tor clot clothes clothes' tea hn hOM affected only an infinitesimal t portion of at humanity added Aunt Sophy Soph nut Hut the rho p papers paper pers tell such stories of th the extravagance e of ot the tho few that the life men have o Lego begun n to fancy that women wanton aro all alike nor and 1 so eo they ere are afraid to mart marr marry Then it t seems to mo a 0 pit pity that iha t someone can cant can't t show how them what a mis mla mIstAke mistake take they are aro making commented d grandpa If |