The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-10-09


AV worries. She riseth in the
morning, and after look at
her image in the mirror, she
worries at the wrinkles that have
come overnight, and straightway
worrieth more and applieth creams,
lotions and salves to fill up the
wrinkles, and worries more and yet
again more, until her face resemb-
leth the map of the time table.
She loOketh to her wardrobe, and
10, it is scant as to number of
changes, and she buyeth a fashion
magazine, and after she has looked
at the freakish images portrayed
therein, she beginneth to "diet" her
self, in order that she may tie her.
self up in knots, even as the woman
Of the fashion magazine doeth on
every page
And then she hieth to the dry
goods shop, and there she is greeted
by many naughty danes who inquire
Of her her pleasure in dry goods.
And the woman sayeth: 81 would
have me dress fashioned thus and
so; l would have it wide at the bot
tom, and full as to the top, and fit
ting me as becOmeth woman with
figure"
And the naughty dame who pre-
sideth over the dry goods counter
will say: may, not SO; would'st thou
be taken for a trump? or for the
replica of thy grandmother, who
knew not what it was to dress even
as We do? Gaze about thee and note
what is the fashion. Behold, yonder
is one arrayed in the Very Latest
from Paris, London and Vienna"
And 10, when the woman looketh,
she beholdeth something with a hat
atop, and with various sundry and
awful draperies about the upper part
of the body, and not much of any
thing, with two or three Sits in it,
on the neither part of the body. And
the woman marvelleth and sayeth:
''Is THAT the style?"
And the naughty salesperson will
say: "Yea, and worse than that. To
gain the glances of those who travel
abroad, and to make the police do
double duty in order to keep the
women from tying up traffic on the
streets, the woman who would be ar
rayed as her sisters are, must get up
early and sit up late to beat what
some of the sisters have done.'
And the woman who is shopping
Will Ody hay anu again she Will
look at the woman who is arrayed in
the Very Latest from Paris, London
and Vienna, and then she will HE
her to the dressmakers and say:
Fashion me a dress; and make
1T Of dimensions around the bottom
that will make me resemble the walk
of a horse who has all his feet tied;
and when thus it has been fashioned,
exercise thy skill so that the five-doI-
lar-a-pair-silk stockings which / shall
wear, will not be unnoted."
And the maker of dresses will do
even as she is bid, and the woman
will sally forth, secure in the knoWl-
edge that she has less on, and it is
thinner and has more Sits in it, than
the raiment of any woman who has
afflicted the eye-sight of those who
belong to the army of Frumps and
Old Fashioned Women.
And the masher, the man who Gun
dresses a woman with his eyes," and
the loafer to whom all women are
those of the underworld, until he
can prove it is otherwise, will gaze
and comment, and remark, and draw
comparisons. Think you the woman
will object?
Not so-that is what she does it
for
And then she wonders why MAN
will not allow her a voice in making
the Laws; why he will not discuss
affairs of State with her; why he
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