The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-09-03

III Readers.
SO much effort has been made +
induce women to adopt some regala
ton street dress, rainy day nniforu
or distinctive business suit, and viii
so little success, it Is right amus:n,
to see them arising clothed with on,
accord in blazer suits. There is NJ
doubt these are sensible works O
art, but when did women adopt 1
style because of its comfort or con
venience? And there is also room
sometimes for reasonable doubt as tc
its artistic beauty being considered
Dame Fashion decreed blazer suits,
and obedient women-kind straight.
way adopted them, that is all. They
are so good for warm weather, with
the cool shirt waist and the simple
skirt, and so comfortable in cool
weather with the additional blazer,
that one can't help hoping they will
linger long with us, and yet we are
as sure as we can be of anything,
that as soon as women are all sup
piled with them, tickle fashion will
turn to pastures new, and doubtless
give us something extra hideous and
inconvenient to make up for her
present indulgence
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| This is Republic. We feel sure
of it because every American citizen
asserts it in season and out of sea-
son. We are also fully convinced by
the same reliable methods that all
men are created free and equal. Some
people have suspicion that women
are not included in this sweeping as
sertion. Women themselves are Civ
en- to doubling it. They are violently
opposed to certain kinds of equality.
People do not even theoretically
start on the same footing with them.
The child of the gutter is not equal
with the one that comes into cul.
tured home. He does not have an
even start in life. Frequently he
comes out ahead in the end, but be-
cause he exercises logged persever.
ance and industry that might have
pushed his better favored rival
heights above him had he exercised
them. But this is different kind
Of inequality from that which star
ted out to mention. The politician
never feels offended when be sees a
hod-carrier wearing the same cut of
garments he affects himself. The
merchant does not object il his err
rand boys copy him in miniature.
They are rather glad indeed, il they
think of it at all, at whatever salts
factory toilet results those lower
down in the struggle may achieve,
and don't dream Of making of and
ordering new suit of clothes be.
cause theirs have been duplicated.
Women wish to be entirely original
in the adoption of styles.
If some one in their own circle
models herself toilet after theirs.
so long as they are not copied too
accurately, it is rather compliment
than otherwise, but when the models
begin to appear on a lower stratum,
and on down through the numerous
grades they begin to act upon free
and equal" adoption of them, then
my lady lays them aside, and sets her
self to the task of new developments.
Feminine fashions become $50 com
mon" Men feel rather disguised
when they find their individual STYLES
uncommon.
One doesn't like TO say ANYTHING
that could be construed into an Ell
couragements for time to fly any fas.
ter than he is in the habit of doing.
yet no one can feel very sorry that
the hot days of the "hottest summer
on record are numbered. The old
est inhabitant has found abundant
satisfaction in tue way the mercury
has climbed up and out of the regis
tering tubes.
Ii we have enough cold weather
during the approaching winter to
even up the temperature in the other
direction, we can have the pleasure
of our ancestors whole year of wealth
er-not the Mandy PANTY sort of
days, with their rain, and slcet, and
cold, damp winds and half frozen
ground that we have been so often
told are mot like they used to be.
We have yet to see whether we
shall prefer the former variety. Life
in the ninet.es weather nineties
this is-grew right monotonous. 1t
may be that prolonged zero days
will also grow tiresome. Perhaps
the weather will never be definitely
fixed to please u.s.
heard man say the other day
that when one could live in delight
full climate he saw no reason why he
should choose the uncertain one to
be found here-and he was going
away. His idea of delightful elf
mate was months of sunny, cloudless
days, and dry air, when he could tell
certainly "what day would bring
forth" and then all the rains in a
lump, and no indecision as to when
they were over.
Then another man who knew all
about such climate, said that the
bright sunshine grew painfully bril-
liant, that he positively longed for a
cloud IN the dazzling sky, and that
the rolling of thunder and torrents
OF rain would many times be a vel
come relief.
There is very satisfactory side
to our country. If one sort of eli
mate does not suit you, and one kind
of weather become too persistent,
any other kind can be found some
place within its borders, and YOU on
ly have to look about you to select
your pet variety.
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There is an article going the rounds
of the papers-on the secret of fasci-
mating, that from the unaminity of
the press in copying it, would argue
the filing of long felt want. 1t
doesn't say very much that all of US
do not know, yet all of US are not
fascinating. 1t says that this secret
is $50 easy to learn that it lies, all
neglected, by the wayside, while they
who would give their dearest treas.
ure to find it pass unknowing."
Lest the New DOMINION readers
pass it "unknowing," am going to