The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-08
SHOULD NOT THINK TOO MUCH
ABOUT THIS vExATIoUs
MATTER.
Most Schoolgirls Too Young and Too
Pretty to Require Much Ornament
in Their Dress-Don't Worry About
Your Figure If Your Dress Is Com
fortable-Health Is the Great Beau
tifer.
BY MARGARET e. sANGsTER.

OH@AS eSs 49, .Sh Aaok
or her jacket or something else, is
last years style. and altogether be-
HAYES like a vain and silly girl" ex-
claimed Jessie's aunt Marion, who had
no patience with such frivolous con-
duct.
"If Jessie had been the fourth
daughter in a large family" said Mary
Elizabeth, looking up with a smile,
"she would have learned to be thank
full for small favors. Until 1 had
passed my thirteenth birthday l never
once went out of the house with a
costume every bit of which had been
made for me. | usually wore Susan's
last years frocks and Mildred's last
years hats, retrimmed and freshened
up, and when l had a jacket it had
been worn before me by Ethel. Moth
err always bought good things that
would last and they lasted until sew
eral children wore them out. was
cured of business before so much as
a wee leaf of it cropped up in my
character. Generally speaking / had
new shoes and that was a comfort"
Jessie had listened to both speak
ers with an air of serious attention.
81 love pretty things" said she,
"and I hate ugly ones. Why shall Sis
ter Louise, who is a young lady, wear
a corset that gives her a good figure
while l who have no figure at all am
obliged to e a corded waist and
button my skirts to it?"
BY this time l was so stirred up
that l was compelled to intrude my
views on the girls.
What on earth can you be thinking
Of, Jessie? A school girls first duty
to herself is to wear healthful dress
and although corsets are excellent
and suitable in their place for grown
up young women, they are not parts
of hygienic dress for you. I hope
that you spend a good many hours
every day out of doors, and that your
director of physical culture superin-
tends your c~alisthenics and your ex-
ercises in the gymnasium. The gym is
as much an educational place for you
as the Latin class or the recitation
room where you study and present
any other abstruse subject in the
school. For daily use a school girl
needs well-made loosely fitting blouses
and skirts, and the weight of her
clothing SHOULD hang not from the
hips but from the shoulder.
Deep breathing is your great ne
cessity; your lungs should be filled
daily and often with the purest air
and your chest have abundant room
to expand. AS for shoes, you must
have common sense lasts broad
enough in the sole and low enough in
the heel to enable you to walk with
ease and grace. A school girl must
not wear a tight shoe nor a high heel.
You are too young and too pretty to
require much ornament in your dress,
and there is no sense in your fussing
over shirt-waists and simple stocks,
hair ribbons and belts.
"Once your wardrobe is supplied
with what is comfortable and you
have equipped yourself with a goli
cape, a rain-coat and a sailor hat, you
are ready for every occasion"
For receptions and commence.
ments and Sunday evenings at homer
queried Jessie, her dimples playing
hide and seek as she archly glanced
at me.
81 beg your pardon" answered
"a girl does need one or two dainty
frocks for evening wear and they
should preferably be white. The
simpler they are the more suitable
they are sure to be. A great many
tucks, puffs, rufles and lace inser
lions are misplaced in a girls dres!
while she Is yet in her teens. There
may be, Of course, some unobtrusiv'
decorations, but not very much 4
needed for she herself sets off he
gown. 1 like to think, too, hat a cir
who is growing up takes a little tim,
now and then to bestow attention OF
the laundress who has to wash ant
iron the dainty muslins that are 81
elaborate and so beautifully fnishe,
with lace edges and delicate EN-
broideries.
"A girl who has once or twice don
her own laundry work, washed an,
ironed a white muslin gown, or a due
skirt, will know by experience tina
1t is far from easy work. and she will
be somewhat nor careful about fire
quently sending 1t to the tub, thai
her friend who has had no such per
sonal knowledge Of the labor II
volved."
No young girl has the slightest oc
casion TO worry about her figure |
only she has a dress that fits he
comfortably, II she stands up straigh
throwing back her shoulders and hold
ing up her head. The figure will TAX
) care Of itself. Health is the grea
beautifier and sensible dress Is 70
young people It's best ally.
Fortunately for young girls. there !
no question about the length of thei
skirts. for everyday wear frock
that reach the ankle. are comfortabl
80 tvcura oaoo In WoIGtur orN A.,