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Show I Dorothy Dix Talks THE BUSINESS GIRL'S CLOTHES A blub of business girls asks me If I will loll them how they should dress. To rliis riuestion I can only reply, in i general ta. that the business girl -hould be so perfectly dressed that nil you remember about hei clothes fs that she had on exactly the thing tliut aha should have on. Something thai suited I the tfie. the place and the girl as noth-i mi. else would. The first essential of th business girl's ! clothes should h- comfort, No girl -an dp good work unlc. hei bod) Is m - as.- ! N'o gul can keep lvr mind on her work1 If her corset Is so tlj,ht that she Is suffo-l rating for air, or her shoe.i hurt her o badl that fhr feelfl that she Is all fci instad of brain. When salesgirl clings daaperatah with one band to hei countei -nd re usas to eeM turn tier head to see if she baa the thing I want, or when the h.iughtv goddess who inke my order at a restaurant restau-rant ,-mnp on head off whan I have the, temeiitv to remind her that I ordered lamb t hops and peas instead 01 the , oml beef and cabbage that she brought me ii do r.ot get angry With them pud report! thm. I take one look a the tfio, -. two sizes too small for ihem and propped up on stills that the nre wearing! and know that for hours they have been undergoing un-dergoing the suffeiliiK of the damned, and 1 realize that no buniHn .reature could exper t to look pleasant qi be aaree able while enduring aUch agony. That women are able t ompllsh as much as ihev do while thi art enduring endur-ing such physical discomfort; Is one oi the marvels of nature if vou would dress i man tip in a straight front as un yielding a.- a coal o( mall, if vou put on him a skirt so light that he had i- plait! his 1-g a round .. h othei a, , v. .ill.., I ' If you would strap on his feel instruments I of torture loft ovei from Ihe Inaulaltlon; if you would put a hair mattress ovcrj each ear; If you would smear hia face' with kalsomlne and eovei his lips with goo of a nauseous ta.sle an. I odor, and send him forth to do a dav's work, he: would collapse on tho office n before noon. Vot millions of ghla ti to do aj man's work with this nort of handicap.! and ihen wondei v. h thej don't gei i along as ia.it Bl jnen do. Aomen will never, never he able tol bold their own with p.:en in hnsmess tin j til the Iram to die.-- ir comfortably as I men do. No women can i limb Hi. ,i |