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Show i,: Dorothy Dix Talks j; If . JUDGING A uiRL BY HER CLOTHES ! j By DOKU'lili DiX, the djJJji Mt It is a sale thins lo judge a sirl j by tho way she dresses. Her clolhea j Mi are her shop window In which she I CMP displays (o every' passerby the line j 11 , of brains, and heart, and general i HI ! characteristic she carries in stock, i ifl Is a girl sloppy and untidy in up- H pearance? "Would her blouse be. E; . better for a visit to the laundry- Are Wf her shoes run over at the heels?. W. Does her suit need pressing, and j lf? lcr gloves and stockings darning? M? She is lazv and trilling. She will j W make Qie kind of a -wife who. feeds tf j her family out of paper bags, who . H wastes money, and against, whose , H lack of thrift her husband will strug- . H gle in vain. By the lime she is fortv she will have degenorated into j H a fat slattern who lives in a frowsy H wrapper, and eats chocolate creams I all day, and reads silly novels, and H who weeps because nor husband and : H children like -.every other place on H- earth bolter than home. ' j Mi But if a girl always looks spic and I P span, and as If she had Just come out I , of a bandbox, it shows that she has f c- energy, and pep, and tho determlna- Vs Uon to achieve results, and get there. IS 3 For It takes time and labor to keep ' II , vrell groomed, and only the woman i 11 f, who Isn't afraid of work and trouble! I i looks de luxe when she hasn't a de ) II rj luxe pocketbook. ' MM no Effect of Corsets j U No psychologist has as yet ex- i Hr plained the exact moral effect of cor- "il sets on the feminine character but H i there's, a subtle and occult connec-H connec-H tioi; tjon between the two. The woman ,1"-eJ-" wh0 doesn't gird her waistline up, I dart doesn't gird her mind up either. The thai woman who is sloppy in dress is in- I day' variably sloppy in her thinking. H uou She is never direct; concrete with II ,n? a aettled purpose in life, as is the te woman who laces herself Into her M wait straight front as the warriors o old life,' buckled on their coatB of mall before of e; thoy went forth to battle. Both of i I ba'$ them are full of fight, and out to j 1 .u3 win. And they do it. i rerej Therefore, if you want a flopping 1 ord clinging vino of a woman, pick out a 1 El stylish one. She'll be soft and mushy 1 oUo physically and mentally. But if you I! 112 want a dependable, helpmate wife j who will carry her half of the do- jH mestlc load, choose one whoEe moral ' jH backbone Is reinforced by good' jH whalebone, 'H Does a sirl always wear a hat thai , fl looks as ll her worst enemy had JR picked it out, and clothes that turn -ijHj a searchlight on her bad points 5n- (H stead of throwing the mantle of jjH charity over them and distracting at- jHL lentlon from them by emphasizing H her good ones? It shows thut she lacks taste, and H tact, and the ability to make the best of things. Such a girl always fumnies fHI the game of life. If her husband Is LHT rich she will spend twice as much on her establishment and got half the re- mmm suits another woman will. If her hus- band is poor she will never help him H to rise in the world, for she will "sever know how to make tho right friend a 1 for him, or to give that Illusion of prosperity that so often leads to real H1 prosperity. And always such a woman is vain, opinionated, and pigheaded, one of trip,; kind who never take advice. KIsc she' would realize her lack of clothes sense! and 'go to a good dressmaker who: Would turn her out properly. B With Cheap Jovvclry. Does a girl go to business groomed i In flimsy finery, and Jingling1 beads,) xnd bedecked In phoney Jewelry' I It shows she has no Judgment, ana H can not 're trusted to handle matters that require good, hard common sonde. ! Hn( No "woman ever climbed the ladder of' H; success in a beaded georgette blouse 1; ind ppool heoled shoes. 1. But If she dresses for business in H simple, plain waists, and tailored suits IH And shoes that permit her to think of HM hor Job inptend of how badly her feet) Hl hur, ltoindlcatcs that she has intclli-j Hj gencje, balance and the intention of HJv making good as a worker instead of. mmmi using the office as a' husband hunt smY ing preserve. I H Does a girl dress beyond her u-.eana '.' it shos that she thinks more of ht?r lool.s than she dooo of liur reputatiop. Because she sets overyono wondering where she gets hor finery, for sonic-times sonic-times she pays tor hr furs and Jin-ported Jin-ported gowns with everything tha' makes womanhood tine, and beautuui, and sometime.? he buys them with the very blood or her poor old rather and mother. The poor girl who looks like a Daily lunt ironi Paris makes a peevish pee-vish and discontented wife, who is always envying rich women and who regards a nusoand as nothing but a cash register for her to punch. The man who marries her will upend the balance of his life dodging the bin collector, and give thanks to Heaven for merciful deliverance when slio elopes with some other simp with a longer pocketbook than he lias. but me poor girl who wears simple frocks she makes herself, and whose clothes aro no better than mother's gives visible evidence that she is a sensible, unsoltish daughter, and will make a man u good, consiuerate and thrifty wife. Does aglrl wear see more gowns that are cAit tor exceedingly high water wa-ter in the suirt, and whose bodices aro C in front, anu V in the back and nought under the arms? It shows that she lacks maidenly reserve, and doesn't know how to blush, and that a man need not censor his stories over much when he talks to her. "When a man gives the once over to a -girl whose charms are as frankly displayed as a maiden's in the slave market, she doesn't look like home, and wife, and mother, lo him. But if a girl clothes herself in all the seven veils of modesty he sees in her the kind of a woman he wants for a life companion and to whom ho isn t atraio to give his name.' It's a pity girls do not realize that thoy are Judgod by their clothes. Especially Es-pecially by men. Silly clothes make men laugh at their wearers. Extravagant Extrava-gant clothes scare men off. Immodest clothes disgust men. If girls knew this, perhaps thore would bo more sane dressing, and more wedding bclla. |