Show the old settler written from salt lake city my dear san Juanc Jua ners rs most of the efforts of men are made along the lines of trial and error with the idea of finding better ways and making progress 1 all the same there are notable I lines in which men have made no progress for at least years one of them is in the he matter of clothing I 1 was wa 3 going to say that in this i respect they have made no more rss ss than rabb ts and pigeons pigeon but that would hardly be fair to the rabbits and pigeons pig cons for their dress has tended to a greater uniformity for mity and to the form and color best suited to their needs by a survival of the fittest but men at different periods in that time ime have adopted some of the most outlandish lut landish garbs imaginable and i if f we I 1 judge adge by costumes costume dug up from the most ancient I 1 euins ains most of the fashions today arl arc I 1 less useful and less sane than they were at the first there are iiams more vital than dress but in this age of improve ment which is supposed to rach reach every field of human comfort and it is is simply astonishing that no progress pro giess has been made and retained if it were possible to know all the grotesque ways in which men have dress dread d s nee nce they found it necessary to wea clothes it is probable that some of the costumes long since obsolete would be found to be better eboth both from the point of use and appearance than any that is found today but comparing what we have today w ath th the earliest forms that have be been en found it is dis courage ng to think that this proud human family should be so unprogressive gres gressi sive vp continued on page 16 the old settler continued from page 1 the styles in the da daa of qeeen F slizabeth lizabeth were rid culo asly ax rava gant but there were times before and since when they were rs Ps bad or worse we look back at them and smile but believing qs is I 1 do that the race is too progressive gres sive to go on forever with nothing but whims and fads I 1 am looking for a time when reason and common sense will determine how men and women should dress and when that time comes there will be preserved in museums the popular costumes of today and men will look at them and tell fl tb la story of the negro who was haled baled into court and the judge said now mort johnson I 1 assume that your name is martin johnson no sah answered the darkie my name is what fools we poor mortals be johnson yours for a really scle Mc pattern of bloomers ALBERT R LYMAN |