The sun., 1900-12-17
AN AID TO HAPPINESS
IMPORTANCE OF DRESSING APPRO-
PRlATELY AT ALL TIMES.

The Woman Who Dresses Herself to
Please Those She Loves Wears nm
Enchanted Robe Embroidered With
Affection-Youth In Clothes.
Copyright, 1900, The Christian Herald, New
York;
Dress is q very important stepping
stone to happiness. As all nature is the
garment of God, by which he is manifest
to us; as the spirit is clothed by the body,
and the body in turn is made beautiful
or repulsivs by the indwelling soul, so is
dress related to the body, for, supposing
O man or woman to have sufficient money
to dress according to desire, then attire
becomes to mind all that form is to sub
stance. 1t is an index, a symbolic lam
guage, 30 much so that a lover, having
seen his mistress in her various costumes,
has the key to her character, if he have
wit enough to use it.
1t is indeed impossible for the most
arbitrary fashion to eradicate, in sensi-
tive women especially, certain tendencies
to symbolic their states of mind by
their dress. Most of my female readers,
[ dare say, possess bonnets and gowns
chat they can only wear on days when
Il
equal to them" There are days and
moods in which curled or loose wander
ing hair is intolerable. Any man of or
dinary tact or intelligence may know that
when a woman's hair is brushed tightly
back and rigidly coiled, when her bright
ribbons are hidden in drawers, her pink
and blue dresses hung at the back of her
wardrobe, and when she herself appears
ola Htx hAYs naIr O1n
the woman is in an inquiring, reforming
temper; that she is going to look into
expenses and call children and servants
to account And il he is discreet he will
not interfere nor ask questions, for the
plainly dressed woman means business,
which may fairly be called Happiness
making"
1t is a very useless thing to advise a
young man as to the girl he ought to
marry, yet the marrying man may we'll
take dress into close consideration. He
may, for instance, be sure that any girl
who without appearing singular can
keep at good distance from any pre-
vailing fashion will make good wife.
This, not because it is proof of her being
quiet and modest, but because it gives
evidence OF her possessing an art Of great
art of making the best of herself. Most
modes of fashion carried to extremes are
ugly. 1t is q hunch here and bunch
there, too much drapery in one place
aid not enough in another. Health, pro-
ptiety and beauty are sinned against
without compromise. The girl, then,
who knows how to steer clear of these
evils and yet not look singular is an
adroit girl, who will make the best of
herself and Of all the circumstances she
may encounter in life.
Women as well as men require variety
In dress In order to be happy, not only
for their moods, but for their work.
Work is easier when we come TO it with
dress that makes it possible. Pleasure
\ is not pleasure without the raiment OF
festivity. Into the sanctuary good
WOMAN likes to come clothed with the
grave, spotless garments of worship. AS
| an adjunct to happiness dress has an
Importance we hardly realize. 1t is a
Conservative not only of good temper
AM self respect, but also Of love. The
woinan who dresses herself to please
those she loves wears an enchanted robe
embroidered with affection. The dress
may be Of ordinary stuff, but it has been
touched by her life thought and embalm'
ed in her love. A different colored dress
a Dew of fresh ribbon, bit Of white lace
Suet little things as they are! Such
grest things as they areI
Vanity, vanityl" is an old, wornout
cry with regard to dress. Men and
women both have a right to make the
most and the best of themselves. 1t is
not vain to clothe the body suitably ac
cordnE as we can afford it, with beauty
and grace. A woman without the arr
lacKS one Of the greatest of moving
ford ). She neither does herself nor hei
husA Ind nor her family justice. We are
constantly told that beauty is only Skin
deep, that beauty is vain, and so on
But there he 20 things just as vain al
beauty. AZ 5a~as domestic satisfac
tion kpes, til pleasure of being beautiful
is " as k len a pleasure as that of be
ing ever q akd perhaps the more amiabl'
OF two. is no more sin in woman
to Yhnk for the fair looks anC
prett cloth&g which enable her to de
light lthersl than it is for a man to thanl
God ~ accumulation of money an,
his all use it in making other
happy.
The { dress docs not diminisl
with only for the young
recogni bis necessary. In clothe
clean a there is kind of youtl
with W should surround itself
There nd women who are NOR
Deauti leir age than in thei
youth. Jul the faded hair an,
complex softer smile, the tendere
eyes! te hair play~ pc shade,
witt ter still, the neel
- aowy kei lef, and tn
ped ID dark colors
as fair in it