Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1914-02-27
Who is Boss of the Roost?

THE LORD probably knew what
He was doing when in putting the
finishing touch on the terrestrial ami.
NAL life, he gave all the beauty and
the color to the male. Whenever
there is a distinction it is the male
who is bedecked, and never his
mate. Man early observed and
followed this hunch of creation.
, To-day among the savages, where
ever found, bright colors and all
manner of ornamentation is the ex.
elusive privilege of the male-his
consort must be content with her
natural grace, And dating back to
the Biblical days it was always the
man who was deified and adorned,
and oming down through the cen
turie We note that man held to
perso al Ell bellshuent for quite
a While, although gradually per-
hitting woman 10 share it with him.
Eventually we relinquished the
rrght--w hereby, as more than one
authority asserts, we lost our pow
er TO rule the rooSt 1t is held that
so long as we men wore clothes
''w hiCh interpreted their strength,
enhanced their responsiveness and
conceal their phi, steal shortcom
ings," woman accepted them as
lord and master-but now the man
is playing second fiddle. In other
words the woman has usurped our
rightiul position-is following ma
ture and her bright plumaged birds,
and nature, according to her rule,
has given her supremacy.
While to 60 back to velvet knee
breeches, kid lowcuts. gold buckles
and real long ones, slashed doublet,
satin coat, ieathered hat and lace
trimmed wrists and LINGERIE is Meth.
err possible nor probable, it may be
that man may yet recover some OF
his lost prestige if this is really
what cost him his cinch. To Ger
tain arbters OF fashion is given tn,
right to tell men and women what
they shall wear-and it is to them
it appears that we may look for re-
hef. According to recent tailormen
decree, we are going in for colors |
again. We are to wear cherry or
rosi,r sa..s, avender coats, fevered |
yellow vests and up and down the
scale to purple or green what.you-
call.ums, it we want. And checks
in nine pronounced spasms are per.
mitted-together with the coat and
trousers cuffs. And in order that
our exa.t and beautiful proportions
NAV be accumulated we are to re.
sort if necessary 10 those aids to a
negligent nature which it is whis |
pered the women uses now-excel
sior permitted but a medium grade '
mattress packing preferred. OF t
course this reiorm-this uplift in the
gladraggan art-cannot be accom- '
plished in an hour or in a day. We :
cannot we'll plunge at once into the
st, les of the Seventeenth century, !,
but we are on our way. And coin. d
cident with this movement for our
emancipation comes from the de p
rision ol the Nstional Dresrmaker's ,
Ass, citation through it's president
hat entirely too much is being made -
III the female figure, and that the
.tyle OF architecture in vogue for p,
nr con my year must come 10 a p
a ,ole and box car composite OF
squares and angles-straight lines m
as usual are 10 be the thing and
he curves come to a T-square pre- &C
pee i've. 81
There is reason in this revolu. g.,
ion Beauty in woman is immoral.
I has been discovered that
here is direct connection between m
olors and curves and crimewaves; VI
hat the woman's dress of the day "a
fiords a suggestive display of the