The Sauk Centre herald., 1904-05-05
STRAIGHT TALK ON STYLE.
Dame Fashion Arraigned by Mem.
Der of the Sex That Obeys
Her Dictates.

Mrs. O'Gally surveyed the gowns and
hats in the window with mournful eye
and a disappearing roll of her head, re-
lates the Chicago Daily News.
whats got the women?" she ex-
claimed. That's no way to put money
in the bank! Wastefulness is a divil
that picks yeh up and throws yeh over
the fince into the porehouse yard befer
yeh can say 'Leggo!'
"Its far more savin' to be ekenomical,
and l can prove it. Just look at thin
hats! FIR the love Of! Well, if we amt
pulled around by the nose, who is,
that's what I'd loike to know! OF our
own choosin' would one of us wear 'em?
And now look at the little dinkety gold
tawsel hangin' in among the grapes and
roses! What Mkt?
Whats fashion so sinseless fer, amy
how, and did amy on 'em liver grow on
American, sile er near it?
In my day it wasn't so. 1t isn't so long
back .whin a cashmere dress was good
enough and foine enough fer amy one,
but is it now? Why, they use cashmere
only to bury folks in, and poor folks at
that. Not aven silk is good enough fer
dresses 1t must be foine cloth, lined
with silk, inlaid with satin, fiounced up
with velvet, and spread all over with
pale lace and passementoory, and thin
it's only plain walkin' suit whin It's
done. Oh, I've studied stole, and l
know that I'm spakip' the truth, and, as
frind. ask yeh. amt it soul harryin' ?
Them fashionmakers is nothin' but
wicked pirates, with an eye on our Dock-
etbooks That's ahl. l know 'em.
whiskin' us about here and there and
changin' the stole on us afore We can
catch our breath. It's burnin' shame,
and they'll have to answer fer 1T, fer
playin' on our lack O. common sinse like
that.
There was a whole back whin my
Molly would use the hull of her Soon
dah marnin' readin' in the papers about
the stoiles from Paris and lookin' at the
full O. useless pictures of 'em.
"'What's got yeh?' l says. is ahl
yer bringin' up comm to this? What's
the Paris stoiles to you that has yer
livin' to earn? Has the way the queen
of Rooshia wears her crown got amy
thing to do with the set of your last
years made-over hat? She may have a
bald spot to cover fer ahl you know.
There's no tellin'. And as fer sateen
coats trimmed with grindstones and lace
chimmy-suits and muslin linginaye-
you've niver\saw one in your loife, and
maybe neither has the party who's
writin' of 'em.
why, this stole business will be
the death of us ahl yet. that it will, and
it's just because we're too petite and
good-natured to say no. I've had me
own black silk comm on II year now
and it's as good as new to-day. Shure,
I've had a new skirt to it twicet, and
three tonnes a waist, OWN to Thin
gettin' toight fer me, though why 1
can't see.
Paris stoiles is ahl roight in their
places, but what is needed is fewer
hints from fashions cinter and more
good, plain directions how to make over
last years drisses and hats so as to fool
ahl the neighbors, and even the old
maids livin' in the block. Do you think
amy one will start something loike that
soon? Has there been amy talk of it
or mintion of it in the papers, do you
know, or has us poor women got to go
roight on sufferin'?''