The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-09-13

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woman.
Again, you go sometimes to a wom-
ans club meeting. You listen to the
reading of anywhere from six to doz-
en- papers, but when you come away
you find that you remember the ladies'
clothes much more distinctly than the
contents of their essays. These club
women have dressed themselves SO
richly, fashionably and conspicuously
that their clothing rather than their
intellectual attainment has stamped
itself on your brain and memory.
For this sort of a woman's club
when the fame of it spreads away
from home. the comment will be: ooh,
yes, I've heard of it often. Awfully
swagger club, isn't it?" So that for
members of a woman's club the ques-
ton of being we'll dressed depends
wholly on whether they wish to attract
attention to their clothes or their
brains.
The same principle holds good
throughout. When a woman lecturer
or speaker is reported in the newspa-
pers as having worn a stunning" cos
tune, it is evident that she has more
confidence in the drawing power of her
dress than of. what she has to say.
The girl who devotes her thought chief
ly to what she is going to wear gives
strong presumptive evidence that in
her secret heart she regards herself as
rather shallow and stupid and that ac-
cOrdingly she seeks to attract atten-
ton away from herself and toward her
clothing.
Being we'll dressed, then, resolves it.
self into question of what one wishes
to dress for. If you are something in
yourself, If you strive to cultivate the
graces Of temper, heart, brain and soul,
which never go out Of fashion, dress
so that your clothing will not attract
attention one way or the other. Wear
as good clothes as you can afford to
pay for, have them made moderately in
the prevailing fashion, get few at a
time and wear them out and then
without any fuss get new ones. Find
what sort of dress is becoming to your
style of beauty, stick to it, then worry
yourself no more over clothes.
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The French are the best dressed wo-
men in civilization. They apply the
national artistic talent to costuming
themselves, and the result is pleasing
picture. A generation ago nearly all
Frenchwomen dressed in black for the
street Now they do so no longer, but
manifest a beautiful and judicious
blending Of colors in their outdoor tot
let's. The effect is most pleasing-like
garden of tremendously assorted
flowers.
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Beauty is a royal gift from the gods;
hence a handsome woman may wear
anything she likes and be lovely in it.
But other women should choose the
colors that are becoming to them. A
little experimenting will always deter
mine this. Black is a saddening, de-
pressing color, both to the wearer and
the beholder, hence should be worn as
little as possible, for it is every WON
ans duty to shed about her bright,
cheerful atmosphere.
For this reason mourning should be
worn as lightly as possible and put off
as soon as conventionality will allow.
We mourn always for our beloved lost
ones in our hearts, but we have no
right to constantly remind others, even
strangers in the street, Of death, no
matter how becoming mourning is to
us. Moreover, hear We, hear ye, black
always makes a woman look old!
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l was never done admiring the COS
tunes of elderly women in Paris. Their
gowns were as fashionably made and
every whit as carefully considered as
those of woman between 20 and 80.
Indeed, If possible, they are at more
pains to dress themselves becomingly
than young women, rightly arguing
that the older a woman is the more
care she needs to take of her body and
her dress. In particular l observed
that these French grandmothers wore
no big, rusty black bonnets tied with
stiff, ugly ribbons under the chin. Their
head coverings were the daintiest,
AICSuOSL, VI LII1S IOQuGS, U1bCh anu
white or lavender or any other quiet
tint they fancied and stringless.
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Most women make the mistake OF
wearing too many clothes and skirts,
even in hot weather. Fresh air is as
good for the skin as for the lungs,
and we should clothe ourselves in such
way as to let this benefcent air cir
culate as much as possible over our
bodies. Air baths are only less neces-
sary FOR the body than water baths.
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Mrs. L. A. Flanagan is proving in
southern Ohio that a good living, and
something more, is to be made in
agriculture even in these times. A
large farm came under her manage
ment some years ago. She studied the
situation, then wrestled with it boldly.
By careful experimenting she dis
oovorod what hor land was ada Mod fO