The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-03-28
BEAUTY UNADORNED Is BEST

Editor Star-Sunday morning. as /,
with dozen other men who are too
lazy 10 black their own shoes, loafed
on the south side of South street. re-
ceiving the ministrations of a Juvenile
Afro-American to my pedal extrem-
tiles, there came along a pretty girl.
Pretty girls are the rule and ugly
ones the exception in Oeala, and
wouldn't have looked at this one twice
if il hadn't been for her clothes and
hat
Simple elegance describes them-a
plain white dress, an inobtrusive hat.
and bunch Of fowers-all neat and
in good taste. 1t rested my tired eyes
TO look at her. and I'll bet my week :
salary | wasn't the only man so i'm
pressed.
Later 1 went to church. and then
watched the street parade of men and
women going home-most of the men
looking vastly relieved. and nearly all
Of the women Disgusting their good
looks, or emphasizing their lack OF
them, by their preposterous hats and
over-done dresses.
Why will the ladies persist in max
ing such guys of themselves? How
can they think that a hat that looks
like an inverted dishpan. or a badly
diSarranged section of a flower bed. IS
pretty or in good taste? When will
they learn that comfort convenience
and good looks go together in dress?
Are they not aware that nearly ev-
cry woman passes caustic criticism on
every dress and hat except her own?
Don't they know the men make all
kinds Of ungodly cracks at the way
they dixie themselves out? Are they
right sure they please even themselves.
All over the world men and women
put in useless toll and commit acts of
needless cruelty in order that the
"civiliZed" woman may make a guy of
herself. Fashion is responsible for
more unnecessary suffering than any
other one thing. Every peaceful spot
on the globe is turned into a slaugh-
ter pen, animals and birds are killed
cubs and nestlings left to starve. to
obtain furs and feathers to decorate
women who would look better without
them. This thoughtless cruelty isn't
confined To the vain and heartleSS. The
woman who sorrows over the woes OF
the drunkard's wife does not stop to
think that the feathers on her hat
cost the life of q bird that had as
much right TO life and happiness as
the slow starvation of half a dozen
nestlings each one of which could fee
suffering as intensely as any child.
He who marks the SparrowS fall
must be kept so busy counting dead
birds nowadays that he is forced to be
somewhat forGetful of the race that
claiming to be his children, seem.
bound to enSlave or eXterminate ev.
erything else that lives on the planet
There isn't anything so pretty as
pretty woman, and she is never 81
pretty when her head is unincum
bered by a hat. That is, if she know:
how TO arrange her hair. \ woman:
! hair isn't becoming when its stacked
! on her head like hay a wagon
| stuffed with rats from foreign polls
sticking out behind like the rear plat
| form of a freight cabooSe, or wrappe,
| around her head like q bath towel
| But there are a hundred pretty, taste
| full ways Of putting UP wOman's hal
| so il will indeed be a crown of glory
! When she must wear a hat, the simple
| ii is, the better ii looks. And tn
| same may be safely said of dress. Tn
| superb bundant, the bizarre and the in
| convenient dress conceals a prett.
| woman's beauty and accentuates
| plain woman's lack Of il into uglineSs
At least this is the opinion of a
Pronounced PeSSimiSt.