The Washington herald., 1911-11-17
QUESTIONABLE EGAMEWORTH
PRICE WEPAY TOPLAYIT?
Question Is Left Open for Discussion by the Readers
of the HeraIds Page for Every Woman, Who Are
Invited to Submit Their Views on Subject

1--WE knew all this before" I hear
some one say, 1--WE have thought
about the injustice that is done women
| by the fashion dictators. We have
counted the cost of the rapid and radi-
cal change, but what can we do?"
! III tell you what we can do. If every
woman who reads The Herald's Page
for Every Woman will band together
! and absolutely refuse to adopt a style
that is extreme it will be one big step
taken in the path of greater happiness in
our homes, greater contentment in our
hearts, and greater peace of mind.
a woman may always be well dressed
without adopting a style that is so
extreme as to be positively freakish
Every woman can study herself until
she has learned what shades and what
lines harmonic with the coloring that
nature has given her-her eyes, her
hair, and her complexion-and when she
has learned this lesson if she will seek
to dress becomingly rather than fash
ionably, she will find that she is making
herself much more attractive than she
could possibly be by following some fad
of the moment regardless of whether
it held in with her personality or OBJ
liberated all the good points with which
nature has endowed her.
Different with Men.
A man may wear a suit of clothes
until it is thr adbare without criticism
from his acquaintances, without COM
ment from the stranger he passes on the
street.
A woman should be allowed the same
privilege without being made to feel
so uncomfortable that it takes all the
moral courage she can muster to ap-
pear in public in a frock that is not
cut up to the last notch of fashion.
Strange to say, the same privilege
may be grasped by a woman that her
husband enjoys, yet she refuses it all
the while that she Graves it.
The divorce courts are filled with
tragedies based on woman's struggle to
be fashionable
Men all over the country are working
day and night, with their noses to the
grindstone, in order that their wives
may have the money with which to meet
the swift changes of style in womens
clothes.
Homes are sacrificed; children go
hungry; families are scrimped; all the
beauty and holiness is crushed out of
life to satisfy woman's Unsuitable crav-
ing for dress, dress, dress-fne and
fashionable clothes.
Health is wrecked by the demand of
style, and the waste that is practiced
yearly by the fashionable is a disgrace
to a civilized nation.
| leave tre matter open for your
earnest consideration and your frank |
discussion through The Herald's Page
for Every Woman
Is 1t Worth WhiIef
I want to know if Washington women
think the game is worth the candle?
How many of my readers will take a
step forward in the road of life's greater
peace by placing the things that build
for eternity above the superhuities that |
create a sensation but for the hour?
want you to tell me if you think
that the whole of woman's vitality !
should be sapped, her peace of mind
destroyed, and her husband made
drudge to satisfy a thing so temporal |
as keeping up with the moments fash
ion dictates?
Every woman who reads this tale is
invited to express her opinion
on the subject under discussion.