Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-14

Impress Behfnd--Hes Wants a Law
 Enacted on Handshaking.
 Fashion helps to prevent social insanity.
 The large demand created by epidemics of fashion lowers prices.
 Some influence remains as a memorial to every fashion.
 Contagion of fashion makes for national unity.
 To ignore fashion is to declare oneself an outcast. ss.s q g@s
 These are some of the things Profess or George E. Vincent said recently in an address on "Fads and Fashions be- fore the Isaiah Woman's club in Chica- go. He declared further, says the Chi cago Tribune, that every one is bound woman is free"
 Men who are indifferent to fashion in clothes.' he said, "are victims of Fashion In something else"
 Tn order not to make the women too prominent in his picture of fashions eervitors Professor Vincent character ized George Washington's fastidious- ness as "a shining example of mans subservience to punctilio."
 Not to be too dattering to fashion, the lecturer described the evolution of the dresa sleeve from the short puffed sleeve of 1907 until it attained ''the size of dress skirt and through its changes to the style that now is pre- vailing
 Tt is a tentative psychological theo- ry. he declared, "that only certain amount of energy can be used and that this is distributed in such a way that what Is lost in one direction is made up in another. This seems true of fashion. When all the energy was expended in hustle and crinoline the sleeves suf- fered. When the sleeves swelled the hustle and the crinoline disappeared. The sleeve now has started on another mad career, and no man or woman can tell where it will end" wlRs
 Professor Vincent soon abandoned the dress question and talked of fads and fashions of all kinds To show that they have lived and died he named the following among the departed: croquet. Painted dustpans The bicycle. Painted rolling pins. Tiddledewinks. Blue glass treatment Pigs in the clover. Pingpong.
 Tennis.
 Over these the lecturer inscribed the following epitaph: '.They have all left their influence"
 Among the living fads he named:
 Putting and lofting golf balls
 Tlie high modish handshake.
 The Gibson craze in art.
 The automobile
 Appendicitis.
 "All of you" urged Professor Vim cent, probably have experienced the humiliation of trying to shake hands with some nnodish person who places Sile hand at an Impossible position and waits for you to find it. Congress had enacted law requiring all railroads to altitude. Congress would do an excel lent thing if 1t would fix the height at which persons should shake hands,
 The changes in architectural fashions were dwelt upon by the speaker, who characterized Michigan avenue as "a museum of architecture, from the frame cottage. built immediately after the Ere, to the French chateau of the millionaire" As an example of the llavery to fads Professor Vincent point id to the rise and fall of the bicycle.
 ..We pick up our snotiens,' 4 explained Professor Vincent, lin various ways. We get opinions from others from strong personalities We assimilate their ideas and accept them as authori- ty. If we know man to be we'll dressed by reputation we observe his dress, regard him as authority and Initiate him. It is the same with every thing as it is with dress
 Ihe lecturer divided imitation into