The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-07-07
DRESS

sense the loose costume insisted upon
in the gymnasium; with n little more
length in the skirt than Is permissi-
BILE when one is playing basketball.
running or jumping, this dress Is ideal
for the schOOlrOom. For walking. and
every schoolgirl should take a long
walk every day as a matter OF course.
the only healthful dress Is one that
easily and thoroughly clears the
ground.
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You girls who read this possess a
great advantage over girls who lived
a century ago. suppose ii Is hard
for you to realize that women who,
were they still on the earth. would
be more than a century old, were one
girls like yourselves. They had pref
~ hard times under the regime then
In vogue, for they often had to spend
hours lying fiat on their backs,
strapped fast to ii board in order that
they might be perfectly straight and,
when they did not recline in this tor
tured fashion. they were equally COM
PEELED to be uncomfortable, for they
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fastened to their shoulders. In the
end, most of them gained what is a
great beauty for any girl-a fiat back
and a graceful carriage Of the head
but they did not usually have such
health as you are Dor. to possess.
They wore wretchedly thin shoes
with soles like paper, pointed toes
aud pointed heels. The roads in those
days were muddy and the girls were
afraid to go out when 1t rained. Their
dresses were of muslin, close and
clinging, with baby waists that ended
under the arm-pits, and in the house
and out most of them wore either
turbans or caps of muslin and lace
trimmed with flowers, velvet and rib
bon.
Your fashions are less picturesque,
but are really finer and better adapt
Ell to your tramping out of doors in
rain and sun, and TO your varied oC-
equations when in the house.
A girl who would like to be splen-
didly well must always wear shoes
that are neither too loose nor too
tight. A shoe that wobbles about and
does not nicely fit the foot, is as little
to be desired as one that distorts It
by cramping and pinching and crush
ing the toes together, or otherwise de-
forming one of the prcttiest features
of the body.
A chiropodist told me one day that
in his opinion nearly all dealers in
s'.oes hired lunatics for statesmen.
said 'Isn't that an aytrnmQ
statement"
Not at all he said. IF you could
only see the feet that | do, the young
girls who have bunions and corns and
hobble about in shoes never intended
by Nature for their wearing. the old
er women whose feet were ruined be-
fore they were IL. you would under
stand what mean. or course" he
added, "if everybody had sense enough
10 adopt hygienic shoes, with broad
soles and low heels. ! should have to
choose another profession, for my
vocation would be gone"
Never neglect to change your out
door shoes for indoor Ones when you
come in, expecting to spend the even
ing al home. The shoes last longer
and the feet feel better If this precau-
ton is regarded.
! nave not said anything about UNI
dcrclothing. because most girls wear
what is most agreeable to the skin.
and are Influenced in their choice by
the Judgment OF their mothers. What
ever yOu adopt, notice that il should
frequently be changed and be careful
% have it good of its kind. Dainty
understanding is one of the character
istics in dress of refined and fas-
tidiOus girls.
copyright. 1906, 10y Joseph B. Bowles.)