The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-02-14
TOO MUCH TIME SPENT IN DAILY DRESSING
Women Hate to Get Up Because of Their Hair and Men
Lie in Bed Rather Than Arise and Shave
Suggestion for Greek Costume.
~ ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

~ ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
A certain Frenchman committed
suicide.
Tired OF this eternal dressing and
undressing" was the message left to
the world.
This illustrates that procurement
by Shaw-before quoted here-that
we get tired OF everything.
And OF nothing sooner. also said be-
fore, than the thing we like best.
Habit Is tyrannous.
Everything is a habit and nothing
more than dressing.
The American. Duncan. brother OF
the famous Isadore Duncan. the dan
Ger, who, to the scandal Of New York
and now of Paris, adopted a bastard
form OF Greek costuming. as did his
wife and little boy. was not far wrong.
After time, like the Frenchman.
you feel that you would either never
70 to bed. or. having got there, never
get up.
For dressing Is such a madness.
Only exceeded in general insanity by
the daily shedding of the habiliments
OF civilization.
Think how we are tied up and
bound down by the multiplicity of out
er wrappings.
We skin them OF layer by layer at
night
In the morning we 60 through the
process of shuffling on our uncivilized
coil
How many of US lie abed o'mornings
putting of the evil hour?
st. Andrews ticks OF the quarter.
You remember your resolution made
nightly for the past century or two
to arise early the next day.
You recall how you said you would
bound into the center Of the floor at
the last stroke of seven. And then
you listen for the bell which follows
the final toll after the penultimate six.
You say that the moment the bell
stops you'll slip out from between the
covers.
Suddenly you hear the fifteen min.
seven has struck. the bell has rung
and you are still affectionately EN-.
bracing the pillow?
You hold a conversation with your.
SELF
Get up-get up" you chant to the
tune of the factory machinery across
the street.
Get up-idiot-where's your reso-
lution-what il It IL cold-its always
cold--except when its hot-think of
the time you waste!
Think OF the books you could read
in the half hour snatched from eter-
nifty each day!
Consider the kind things you could
do for your friends instead of lolling
aloft.
Reflect on the walks you could take
thereby sidestepping the statute Of
limitations against weights and meas
ures"
In the moments added to your re.
pertoire Of activities you could learn
q language-how nice to surprise your
friends some day by casually referring
to your translation Of the sages Of the
Choctaws and when they call you a
wonder and ask you when you did 1t
you carelessly remark-oh, odd sec.
onds subtracted from Greenwich time.
Then you might learn to sew and
do fancy-work in those hiatuses just
after dawn now spent idly dreaming of
thousand dollar cheques floating
through the window and curling up
just inside your fingers.
I'D rather be taken out, stood up
against wall and shot," said Sal,
than learn how to sew
(nlx -
turesQue spectacle" said the cynic.
1T In not WELL" he went on, Ito know
how to do too many things"
II agree with you." cried Sal. Nov
II knew how to sew. I'd have to make
all my own clothes, and heaven
knows who's else. I'd have to darn and
patch and cut andsmatch and lengthen
and turn up-not for mel" Moderated
Sal
II grieve to hear thee making mock
OF the sweet domestic virtues" sadly
said the cynic. us there a lovlier pic.
ture than the fair one seated by the
evening lamp weaving the needle In
and out the while my lord shores
peacefully, II numerically, over the
evening paper which she never gets
to read until the next morning"
I'm glad to hear you admit she
never does." deployed Sal. Its the
truth that households are run for the
men--when they've read the papers
scanned the magazines. looked over
the new books, skinned of the cream
the women are permitted a chance at
what's left"
There's no use arguing with you,
Sarah" said the cynic, "on these mat.
ters. Your prejudices are too deeply
seated. Your vision IL too permanently
obliQue. So let US return to the origi.
nal proposition-how tired wet get OF
everything"
III ! had plenty Of time I'd talk to
the crack O. doom about anything !
wanted to-" replied Sarah. This way
you have Of railroading subjects
through you're tired talking about OF
about which have you one better
makes me weary"
"'rired-there 1t is-tired." reiterat
ed the cynic. How tired We get Of ev
erything. Sometimes. Sarah" grinned
the cynic. II actually believe get
tired Of you"
POOH" tossed Sal. you can't make
me mad. II you get tired OF me. consid
er how weary YOU make me- There are