Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-28
Personality in Dress
More Important Than MONEY.

Does personality depend upon being
wen dressed and having money to
spend! queries writer in the current
number of Harper's Bazaar In the mat
Ter OF great personalities-wltat NAV Ia.
called overwhelming uneS-feminine opin-
ion, at any rate, would disagree with
him. Mary Lyon. whose name has heeu
voted into the Hall of Fame, was never.
well dressed. She gave away TOO mucl
Of the tiny salary she earned TO have
anything left for good clothes Doruthcr
Dix was not a fashion plate Jane Adj
dams and Mrs. darlington Booth wore
the plainest ralplent. Joan of Are prob
ably wore rags, pure and simple. If
great women are so independent of fine
raiment. great men arc, of course even
more So II the American people had
noticed clothes, what chance would
Abraham Lincoln have had? The thesis,
however, may have weight as TO ordinary
personality. Most people feel more i'm
portant in new clothes To wear a new
dress has been known to produce a dis
tinct uplift i'm a tired feminine spirit.
And it is a fact that when Il young girl
went to apply. at il ieachers agency late
" the foremost piece of advice given her
by three women who lad been teachers
was: Wear Your best clothes. 1t makes
difference ..-....s..
1t is q queer. commentary nn the other.
side OF the. question. though. that the
people with the most money and the best
clothes are often lacking in DerSOnality-
Of a compelling and attractive kind
Their money ami their clothes appear to
do the work. Where is the. point where
money begins to help personality and
where again the point where il ceases 10
do SOL Where is the place where dress
keeps the steam up and maintain Sp0n-
taneity and enthusiasm and where is the
place where it produces a fashion plate*
The Nobler Sacrifice
What influences does business exert on
the inexperienced, expectant girl? They
are purely psychological. T6e question.
OF comparative health and comparative
morals in domestic and business life is
narrow, as compared with the broader
one of psychological conditions.
| believe that there are Just as many
women who break down under the strain
OF bearing children and domestic burdens
as there are those who have nervous
prostration from trying to do mans
work III business and live a woman's life
at home.
But there is this difference: The wOm-
an who sacrifices herself on the domestic
altar may leave behind her living,
breathing memorial III the sons ana
daughters who revere ffer memory, and
VINO hand down to p0sterity the influence
circle for good; while the woman who
sacrifices herself to business success cali
leave only a few tangled skeins in office
or store fol some other woman to
straighten out. The woman who is nor
mai and healthy, and performs her work
IN the normal, common-sense way, will
not break down either in the home or in
wage-earning field
Wage-earning women as a class / be-
heYe to be even more moral than their
SISTERS who lead the protected life. Con-
tact with the world shows them the
wages of sin as well as the wages of
work. They are less credulous. less
trusting, than the girl who idealizes ey
cry man who comes upon her horizon.
The girl whose virtue is inherent and
strongly entrenehed does not yield to the
embellishments of the man she meets in
BUSINESS; rather she becomes absolutely
lmpregnable On the other hand, the
glri who is naturally wild and unre-
strained does not require the influence OF
once. store or factory environment to
snow her the downward way.-~Anna
SSteese Richardson in Woman's Home
Companion.