Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1895-08-22
woMAws WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
A Man Tells Us What Men Think Of wo-
mans Dress

lean Review, on the subject Of wOman's
dress. 1t is from the man 5 standpoint,
therefore well worth considering, for
women do attire themselves more or
less to please man, and quite right too.
He says, this gentleman who reveals the
secret workings Of the masculine mind
on the all important subject, that IL
most all men abUminate all forms Of
women's attire that merely aim to be
'mannish, that are adopted only for the
sake of making smart appearance"
that is to say, when women put on
the collars, neckties and hats usually
worn by men just for the sake Of look
ing like men and nothing else, then
that disgusts men, and | dom wonder
Men are not so beautiful and admirable
that anybody should want to initiate
them servilely, and nobody knows that
better than men themselves. On the
other hand, Mr.. Crandall generously
says: Men donot in the least object to
their wives, sisters or daughters wear
ing gym suits for athletics, divided
skirts or Turkish trousers for bicycling,
or even for business, so long as the
touch of femininity, of modesty, is new
er lost sight Of III the making of such
costumes, but he looks for that round
ness as opposed To angularity, that grace,
be it Of rufile or gather, that little
adOrnment, a touch Of color, ribbon,
flowing outline, that shall proclaim the
sweetness, the preciousness Of woman
hood. " He believes that, although wo-
mans dress should be adapted fully to
the new conditions that the sex is en-
countering, the going out to business in
all weathers, the active work in facto-
ries, gardens and elsewhere, the enjoy
ment Of athletic culture, mountain
climbing, etc, still the element Of ar
tistic beauty must never be lost sight of.
Mr.. Crandall is exactly right. One of
the first duties of women, from the age
Of to 100, is to make themselves at all
times as beautiful as they can, and I
have always said it. Mr.. Crandall is
enthusiastically in favor Of short skirts
He writes The gain to the race that
would accrue in the way Of increased
health and happiness and lessened pain
and doctors bills if the average skirt
was cut ten inches shorter would be tre-
mendous. BY that one simple stroke Of
the scissors, quick and painless, think
how many hundred tons Of dry goods
would drop from the overweighted hips
Of woman
Whether college bred women do or do
not marry Is a question of no more i'm
portance than whether college men
marry.
The sensitivites Of d school trustee Of
Greenpoint, N, vi, have been cruelty.
cruelty hurt by bold, bad schoolmis-
tress who rode to school on her bicycle
and wore bloomers-actually wore 'em.
1t is true she put on an orthodox long
skirt so soon as she entered the school
house, but that did not palhate the
4 enormity Of her crime. The delicate and
tender plant Of trustee was afraid
other girls might see this bright, ath-
letic schoolmistress and put 'em on too.
He was afraid Of the effect Of the bloomer
example ON the morals of his ''dees-
trick, so he ordered, did the trustee,
that the schoolmistress shouldn' wear
her bloomers any more when she rode
to school | viii be one of number to
subscribe fund for testing in the court
whether that school trustee had any
legal right to issue such an order. When
Miss Nancy school trustees undertake to
regulate teachers dress, it is high time
that women voted That Nancy man
had no more right to prescribe what the
\ teacher should wear than She had to pre-
| scribe what be should wear.
The woman 5 press committee of the
International and Cotton States exposi-
tion viii have meeting of their own,
gathering at Atlanta from all parts of
/ the Union Oct 2, 3 and f. Their visit
\ will be as delightful as the people Of
\ Atlanta know how To make such visit.
Mrs. Maude Andrews Oil Of the Allan
ia Constitution is chairman Of the com
mittee.
Mr.. J. H. Monrad, one of the leading
butter and cheesemakers of the coun-
| try, says that every creamery ought to
have among its employees a girl tester
\ to find out the amount Of cream and
butter fat the separators leave i'll the
4 skimmilk or buttermillS This is one
person : work Of itself. The man who
runs the churn and the separator has
/ not time to make such tests, and so it
happens often that separators leave a
1 considerable per cent Of butter fat in
the milk, aud it is wasted The girl
tester would save many dollars weekly
over and above her wages Excellently
thought Of, Mr. Monradl We know doz-
ems of neat, sweet, Immediately clean
and pretty girls who are just waiting
for such place.
There is not a working girl in this
country who cannot conquer success, not
one who cannot earn good living, lay
up money, and in time get compe-
tency. She has only to make up her
mind that she will do this and then
stick to it.
1t is a hopeful sign that the colored
women Of the United States have or
ganized a society of their own, the Ma
\ t1Onal Federation of Afro American
Women. The colored women of this
country work harder and more steadily
than colored men do, and they do not
get the recognition they should from
their white sisters.
If were man, should not say
much about college women not marry
\ ing. / should consider it such poor
compliment to my sex that | should
want to pass over it i'll silence. If col
lege women and successful business wo-
men prefer single life to accepting men
as husbands. then SO much the worse
/ for the men.
1t has pleasant sound, Farmer Kate
Sanborn. ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.
Keep Their Secrets Wen.
The French keep the secrets of their
ammunition wonderfully. Their powder
gives excellent results, but its compost
tion is still unknown, and their dyna-
/ mite shells for the navy and field artil-