The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-24
THE FOUNDER SAYS

James ]. Hill, the well-known rail-
way magnate, was talking in Kansas
City about railway economy.
Economy is excellent" he said, but
even economy must not be carried to
excess. Railways must not be man
aged as a certain New York necktie
manufacturer manages his business. A
drummer in this mans employ showed
me the other day letter from the
firm. 1t ran thus:
I'VE have received your letter with
expense account. What we want is or
ders We have big families to make
expenses for US. We find in your ex-
pense account SO cents for billiards.
Also we see 1925 for horse and buggy.
Where is the horse and what did you
do with the buggy? The rest of your
expense account is nothing but bed.
Why is it that you don't ride more in
the night time?
John says you should stop in Bos-
ton where his cousin, George Moore,
lives. John says you should sell Moore
good bill. Give good prices-he is
Johns cousin. Sell him mostly for
cash Also John says you can leave
Boston at 11:45 in the night and get
to Concord at 4:35 in the morning. Do
this-and you won't need any bed. And
remember, what we want is orders"
Styles in the accessories which are
necessary to a woman's wardrobe seem
to be going to hideous extremes. The
collier which fts around the neck clear
up to the place where the hair starts
in, excepting the little place in front
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the most barbarous articles of cloth
| ing that ever appeared on a woman.
AS is usually the case, some one had
| the nerve to start the style and the
rest of the women of the country fell
pell-mel in with the idea, and col
lars were made as high in the back
as they would without knocking the
back comb out of the back hair. and
as high in front as possible without
catching person in the nase.
We have not forgotten those ugly
princess gowns which were about as
nonsensicaI dress as could have been
invented Form fitting? Yes. but they
were made to fit a form and not
shape edo you notice the distinction).
and they appeared on everything that
could finally raise the necessary $4.9S.
At times it was really heart breaking
to see the poor victims of the fad.
The long sleeved gloves are an ar
| ticle of wearing apparel which was
made necessary by the short-sleeved
shirt waist. OF course, they are more
attractive than the wooden mittens
grandmother used to wear, but they are
the limit at that.
With the general adoption of the di-
rectoire gown, a full length glove to
go over the feet will become as much
of a necessity. Then there are the fads
in hair dress. The high school girls
braid down the back. which was the
style of a quarter of century ago, is
| now replaced by the Grecian pomp, the
dutch roll, the marcel wave, the rat
filled front hair and a thousand other
hideous inventions. for the arrange
ment of the hair.
From her high-heeled shoes to her
aeroplane hat, which needs only pro-
peller and a gasoline engine to make
it fly. a woman uses about as little
sense in the devising and acceptance
| of styles as the heathens do.
Consider the modest little Japanese
| girl Her corsetIess form, covered with
the flowing kimono, her neck free from
| the torture of dog collar, her feet
covered with a comfortable sandal, her
waist free except for the loosely fitting
| ODE with it's convenient pillow at the
back, and in fact all OF her clothes
made for comfort and yet attractive
| in their beautiful simplicity. The
American girl has a lot to learn from
her little sfant-eyed friends in the land
| of the cherry blossoms.