Milford chronicle., 1905-12-01


f banquets. Thank God, Japan can fu
e nish Massachusetts her rice as well a
1 Louisiana her sugar and China her te.
Striking Picture.
I, But as go and study Byam Shaw
/, picture and watch that crowded roor
Of the British museum see the me.
t, and women dressed in the most beau
tiful Of garments. Of course these gar
ments are not in up to date fashions
They are dressed as people dressed
thirty years ago. When we say thirty
years agoswc instinctively know tha
the styles are o,d fashioned, for wher
we realize that every winter our moth
ers and wives and daughters must
have their clothes made over again
completely or else they feel that they
look ridiculOusly out of style, then we
know that the garments of quarter
Of a century ago must be out Of style
indeed. If our wives wore big sleeves
in their dresses last winter, then they
must wear very small sleeves now. If
small bOnnets wcrc their headgear last
spring, then this fall their hats must
be shaped like Mexican sombrero.
for thus DEGREES Partisan style. And
the average woman would sooner wear
a convict's garb than be out of style.
But, though Byam Shaws characters
were dressed in garments quarter of
a century old, yet, like our own clothes.
they were all machine made garments.
The linen came from the Belfast mills.
The woods were woven not with a Pris-
cilla's spinning Wheel but by the looms
Of the Manchester factory. The silks !
came from the silk mills, the kid gloves |
from the kid glove factories. The poke |
bOnnets were made in the hat factories. |
The high silk hats, without which no
British aristocrat feels that he is dress
ed as a gentleman, also came from the
hat factory And when we go through
our own wardrobes we hear machinery
lumming one perpetual sentence: Il
made you. I made you. l made you.
made the cloth of that coat. 1 made
he cloth of that dress. I made that
underwear l made those shoes and =
hose hats and those gloves. l made i,
'ou. made you" And why has ma
hinery made all our clothes? For two
because machinery can !,
lake our clothes much cheaper than !
be human hand can make them; rea- q
on the second, machinery can make =
hose clothes much better and more =
1itable for comfort and ease. a
oh says some cynic, Il do not see =
ny benefit from machinery in regard =
clothes. True, the sewing machine =
able to make six dresses for my =
ife where her grandmother had only
le, but the difference between modern n
mes and ancient times is no difference =
the amount of work done. NV wife =.
'eps saying always, 1 must have six -
'esses,' SO every time 1 come home -
ON business she meets me with a re- "
lest for new hat or new coat OF
new dress or a new pair Of evening sc
Dpers, and for my part 1 would like m
go back to the old times when wo- gr
en- and men did not think or talk w
out dress. This talk about dress OF
arly drives me insane" Would you. ma
? brother, like to go back to the old alb
lys and not have the comforts of the CO..
'dern machine made garments? to
ell, let me see how it fits in your VIC
Sc. SUI
Old Fashioned Clothes. thf
fou say you like the old handmade gro
'thes, hard to make, but clothes pei
lich, after they were made. never I
re out How would you like your TIL
eat-grandmother to knit for YOU a on.
II of stockings like those your great tor
lndfather wore? You say these ma
dern stockings are always getting me
es in them. Yes, they are, but there clio
s no danger of your grandfather's ma
ckings having holes in them. Why? abe
ey were made as thick as a bed sir,
1t. Then the beauty of them was ing
t, like a modern Mother Hubbard Bile
IS, they would continually stretch veI
be made to fit any one, or, rather, ma
Y would never truly fit any one. Ma
hen you grumble about your wives Of
daughters always talking about teri
S. 'Oh," you say, sit is dress. spil
IS, dress from morning until night by
from night until morning whenever by
women get together" But who is fall
lder Of his wife when she is dressed The
than you? Are you not a little as
e willing to go to Thanksgiving the
'ice when you are walking by her tion
and you think she has a prettier as
ter hat on than any other woman in our
church? Do you not feel nightly Tha
iliated when she does nor keep her and
neat and up to date? no. for IC