| Show SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT by F A WALKER WALK ER DRESS to the manager 0 of a ACCORDING adomens occupational bureau many desirable candidates belonging to the gentler sex ses are rejected by isible employers because they do not dot dress in a manner suitable tor for the offices in which they desire to find places foreign visitors have ottoo often been surprised at what might be called the american womans comans genius tor for making the most of her clothes so apart from occasional excesses n the matter of f puffing al and d dowder tig ft it ta juuls L us is ft 1 f 11 the le u 01 ol 1 ealta really amounted to tills this that women who hate haie a profession or a business make the mistake it if mistake it be of 0 dressing like the other women who do not dot have to earn a so according to some the problem would be solved it if the lie professional or business woman would only adopt uniform clothes these of course would be strictly plain and would albord no opportunity to those who desired to make themselves conspicuous or create a good impression it Is admitted on the oth other er hand that every woman has a right to make herself as attractive as shet can if only those who did not have to w work ork were allowed this privilege it i would be a clear case of class re regulation a thing not in accordance with american ideas edca except in the matter of wearing furs in hot weather and going without them in cold weather when the fashions so denland demand it must be ad emitted that women display much more sense than men in dressing to suit the season of the year and the requirements of the hour when dr mary walker became a physician slie she thought it necessary in order to live up to lo the dignity of the profession to get permission to dress in masculine clothes and was uncomfortable for Jor table forever after no modern woman would think of doing such a thing when women began practicing law in america there was a great commotion among the other attorneys as to whether or not they would wear their I 1 hats bats in court they solved the problem by taking them off though they kept them on when they went to church there has been quite a controversy in england as to whether a woman about to be called to the bar would wear idear the hOr horsehair wig affected by tile other lawyers no doubt it if she had her way she would dl discard the absurd head covering wille which h has bas made most of the lawyers of tile the country go bald at an early age the fact Is that women are much less subject to tradition than men that Is why jt t Is so hard to make rules for them and expect th them 0 in to oby obey them Q by mcclure Syndicate 1 |
