The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-04-19
PLEA FOR SIMPLE LIFE
Chicago Club Women Urge
Their Sex to Follow It.
.ERAMEAPRAOTIOAL PRESCRIPTION

Habit of Extravaganza In All Things
prOdigality In Dress and Love For
ssFriIIed and Tucked Existence
Are Scored school SorOrities and
Telephone Talk Deemed DANGEROUS
The members Of the Chicago Won
ans club recently wrote prescription
and advised all women to have it filled
and to take dose upon arising every
morning, another before luncheon, a
third before dinner and a fourth before
retiring. Il taken regularly the remedy
will work greater wonders with the
modern woman than did the connection
of the encnantress Circe with the fol
lowers of Ulysses, says the Chicago
Tribune
Before the prescription was written
the members of the club reached the
conclusion that the most dangerous all
ments from which woman today is suf.
fering are the habit of extravaganza in
everything, prodigality in dress, love
for the tucked and frilled existence in
stead Of praiseworthy devotion for the
simple life. The remedy not only will
cure woman of all her failings, but it
will also have the effect of regeneratins
society.
Here Is the prescription:
Discard your silk petticoats.
Direct your energies to the cuttiva-
ton Of your soul instead Of to the ruin
alton of your digestion.
Save your time, your money ana your
opportunities.
Go back to the home and seek your
greatest pleasure there.
Make your own skirts so you will
not be unnerved by standing for hours
In a dressmaker establishment while
you are being fitted.
Make your skirts round and simple.
Do not allow pumctuality to be the
thief Of time
Turn your back on frivolity.
Simplify your lives In every way.
This remedy was guaranteed to make
good mothers of all women and serious
women of all women who are not
mothers.
To make good daughters who will
grow into good women and wise moth
ers the following prescription was set
forth by the different speakers:
Do not allow your daughters to join a
sorority while in the preparatory
schools. Sororities are fountains from
which all evils flow.
Do not allow your daughters to talk
over the telephone to young men. They
are apt to be bold at long distance and
daring enough to say things at long
range which they would shrink from
saying at close range.
The general subject discussed was
the girl and the mother. It found q
warm place. in the hearts Of the club
women. They got up one after another
and told what should be done to make
lefls good wives and wives good moth
ars,
Among the speakers were Miss Fran
ces Newton s;ymmes and Mrs. Charles
C'uy Do1te.
"E!xeuse A1bums' For Tardy Guests.
1t behooves those going to house par
ties to arrive at their destinations
promptly on time for several hostesses
have taken to keeping excuse al
bums," says a correspondent Of the
New York Post In those volumes the
tardy ones must write their names and
their reasons for being behind hand.
Persons who pose as being clever and
are constantly on the lookout for
chances to impress their friends will
dave good opportunities to prove their
ingenuity by writing something more
original than train delayed" or "auto
broke down. which are the excuses
that are repeated tiresomely in most
OF these volumes. There is only one
excuse in my book" complained q
hostess. "All the rest are ditto marks