Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-30
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Stanhope. Aug. 2o.-The crowds on
the trains going towards tins state tan
are suggestive. In the first place they
| are remarkably Well dressed. this i'll
comparison with what one noticed in
| the same Kind of 4 crowd twenty years
/, ago. 1t brings To mind q favorable
contrast. A big crowd came down from
/ IIolstoin young German farmers and
| in dress, conversation and general APP
pcarance one recognized them as Iowa
boys. not young Germans. And as has
been said before in this column, in re-
feri-ng TO a regiment we started for
Cuba, they are big, broad shouldered,
thicll-li mbcd, husky chaps. and LOO OF
such young men, armed With the latest
improved weapons. would delight q
strenuous Roosevelt OF course in the
crowd on the cars was the man With
the Whisky bottle. His two quarts OF
whisky. or rather the price of it, would
have bought him a clean shirt. collar
and necl1tie. MI Of which he lacked.
excepting the article he wore called q
clean shirt once upon Il time. Out OF
the purchase money of the two quarts
of whisky after buying the above arti-
cles of wearing apparel he would still
have had n dime for q shave which he
always needs. and another 10 cents to
have his shoes shined. als they always
need it. As it Was, before he got to Des
Moines his whisky WAS gone and he
still lacked what these young men from
lsolstein had, q decent personal appear
:lnce. But whose business is it,
l., te-io
raid for the two quarts of whisky?
There was a time when the writer
thought differently. but now he knows
that the young men of Iowa. dress bet
ter. j. G., in better taste, than the young
women. OF course this statement isl
going to make trouble for the LOCKER
ON, but what he means to say is tina
the average young man of Iowa, and
this includes all from the farm. the |
shop, the mill the stores and the pro-
fessions. takes uD, adopts and gets the
real "style" sooner than the average
Young woman from the same Walk in /
life. These crowds Coins to the state
fair prove the assertion. The men while I
adopting the fad Gin clothns) of the /
day get very nearly the real thing, the I
women have an exaggerated form of
their prevailing "style' in dress. The
young men hardly ever develop a real
or attempted forpish style in dress.
While one sees dozens of young (and
some ODD women dressed in all the col
ors of the rainbow. These women if
certain style of belt is in form pek out
the widest, biggest affair they can get.
If hair is worn low on the back of the
neck. they Try to get it down on the
If Worn low on the fore
head they pull ii over their eyes. ii
skirts avs Worn short, they SHOW their
lniles; Il long. have u trail half a yard
onger tl,an the prevailing style. II
mall hats are the thing. they get the
smallest; If large, they buy umbrellas,
lnd trim them With oak branches.
netaphorcaily speaking. This is NOT
70 true of the city as the country. but
n a town the size of MarshalltoWn and
arger the young woman in general
'ails to grasp the read idea of the pre-
;ailing style. She never falls short of
/, but always eNasgerate.s it.
Not so with the young man. (All this
n general tcrms.) Last Saturday night
he writer Was on the streets OF Sioux
>ity. OF course we an know this is a
ronticr town. one OF the Wild and
yoollies. Hundreds of men and women
we're out for Il walk and doing the nee
-ssary shopping. And this contrast be
ween the SEXES in the matter of dress
TODD out very prominently. The young
nam who had worked all day in some
;iinly, dirty factory WAS now on the
treet dressed in equally quiet style
With the cashier in the bank. The
Dung woman from some place where
he earns d good living at good wages.
mop, store, restaurant or other place of