The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-08-27

less a women. Your worst fyrants
are those II your own sen
Only few days AGO we heard Mrs.
Livermore lecture on Superhuous
Women" She told us AL ab0u; the
beautiful thifs1-s she saw n the Ccnten-
NAL. AL made BY women. We enjosei
her lecture. applanded and indorsed Il.
but we felt sad when she told about the
beautiful things she saw NJ the Certen-
NAL that women made. Here. 10 our
way Of thinking Is the most imperfect
phase Of woman education We DONE
know what she can make. but we do
know what she cant make. She can't
make her own clothes
Now. how can women expect 10 90
out into the great world and compete
with her hrother until she ear make
her own clothes as well rs her brother
makes his? Don't tell Us YOU can. be-
cause we know better. You can't
See here Three years ago 1t NAV
have been four. but il was certainly
three Eve went into 4 merchant-tailor-
ing establishment in Burlington To order
suit Of clothes. We selected the cloth.
the cutter measured n. the proprietor
said. I've viii send the suit 10 the
house when il Is finished That was
all We never bothered about il. didn't
70 TO see how the suit was coming
along. it came home. WAS put on. il nj.
as matter Of course. Just rs we ex-
pccted il would. and there was nothing
lacking about IT, Since that time we
have never troubled the cutter for a
new measure He does not want il.
When we want new suit we merely
select the cloth and 90 out. and in due
time the suit follows Us home. II we
are thousand miles from home we
have Just to write and the suit i made.
sent BY express and fits Just Is well As
though we run in TO fuss over II six
times n minute.
Now. on the other hand. our wife
wants dress After two or three or
half a dozen stores have been ransacked
for the goods. the dressmaker i sought
out The matter of measurement Is
tedious. and then the matter Of fitting
is one of numerous and repeated trials
Finally the dress is finished and sent
home. Then it is sent back to be taken
in here and let out there, and ~ last.
after the customer has been fitted more
times for that one dress than her hus-
band has been measured in three or
four years. the dress comes home for
the last time and is pronounced BY the
wearer. her friends and the dress
maker a beautiful and perfect fit. and
it is finished
Beautiful IL certainly Is. far more
beautiful than anything her husband
ever wears. Colors and material. sfyle.
shades and contrasting bits Of
color. are all in the perfection Of good
taste. No man can improve uDon that.
But il isn't finished When it Is COM
pleted As far as the skill Of the dress
maker can finish 1t, and il is 10 be put
on. il has to be pinned somewhere:
sometimes in two or three. often in half
3 dozen places. :. always requires a
pin Leave out the pin and the dress
Is all awry somewhere. On all this
broad American continent there i not
one woman who can dress 50 IS to
make any kind of an appearance in good
society without pins
Now, suppose our tailor should send
our suit home. and when we had put on
the coat we had to pin it nj the neck?
Or suppose there were no suspender
buttons aft, and we had 10 use pins
there? Suppose he made our shirts 50
that we would have TO pin On the collar.
how long would such a shirt or suit Of
clothes STAY in the house, Who would
be responsible for the language used by
the mar Who had TO pin on his coat?
No tailor would dare to tempt the
wrath Of independent man. But wom-
an-alas. she patiently pins on the
dress that she paid some one thirty OF
forty dollars to make. and doesn't
think anything about it. We will not
pursue this painful subject Let the
women Of America take it up and think
about it, and learn. in the noble indie
pendence of womanhood. TO make their
clothes before they put them on.-Bob
BErdefte. in burlington Hawkeyc.