The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-01-28
DIGNITY OF DRESS.
Wear Neat Clothing ~ You Would lie Sus
cas.fuI m NNnrI.I, Thinn.s


cessfui i'm Worldly Things.
As the world grows older and wiser
more attention is paid To hygienic
clothing. This is not the work of So
called dress reformers. but is due
rather TO the gradual growth of intel
ligence among the masses of people
and the general desire of the majority
OF people for comfortable. wholesome
dress. Popular demand has done more
to free the civilized world from the
uncomfortable dress of years ago than
all the lectures of all the united dress
reformers could ever have accom-
plished. All reform in any direction
of habit is slow and steady. not spas
modic. Slowly We are reaching a
standard of dress which, taken As a
whole, is artistically and hygienically
nearer perfection than the dress of any
people of ancient or modern times.
Dress is often spoken of rs a matter
which it is frivolous To dwell upon at
length. and children are told not to think
too much about their dress. This is
mistake. The health and entire COM
fort of the individual often depend up
on the way in which the clothing is
fitted and the material from which il
Is made. and certainly a healthy mind
can not exist without a healthy body.
The surest way to keep children from
thinking too much of their dress is to
clothe them so comfortably and neatly
that they are never conscious of their
clothing or put to shame before their
comrades by It's shabbiness. Ii re-
quires some sacrifices to keep children
In neat dress. but such sacrifices nav.
The girl is more likely to grow up a
useful, sensible woman who has not
been put to frequent modification on
account OF her clothes. She will be less
likely TO attach too much Importance
to dress than the child who has suf-
Tered from the unavoidable sneers of
the world at her shabby clothes. There
are cases where it is impossible for a
person to dress as they would like to
and obtain their education or some i'm
oortant. lasting good. Let such sacri-
ices be endured by people who have
arrived at years OF discretion, so that
heir character is formed. not by grow
ng children. Among things that are
lon-essential to the character there is
lothing exerts 30 demoralizing an in
Iuence on the character as shabby !
ress- 81 know now as | never knew
n my boyhOod." said prominently I
uccessful business man. what sacri-
ces my mother made TO educate me
s she did. and | remember. with graf
tude to her. that. although / was a {
oor lad in school with wealthy boys. {
ne took such care Of my clothes. most q
which she made herself. that had I
o occasion to feel abaShed before
le best-dressed boy in school" This
lay seem trivial, but habits are e
'rmed often from trivial bases. It i
ikes a sensitive girl or lad often years S
recover from the continual humilia- 3
on thrust upon them IN the shape of il
othing. and they may fail for such s
JASON for years To attain that self-re- q
ant character that might otherwise d
ave been theirs. We live in the s
Ill., not in Heaven ..Rendar To a
esar. says the Scripture, those W
ings that are Caesars" Paw the W
lbute OF neat dress to the world IL Il
III would be successful in the worlds W
fairs and in worldly things.-N. Y. II
.ibune. RI