Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-03-26
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Editor Democrat:

Editor Democrat:
The writer overheard a fashionable
dressmaker the other day say that
spring gowns the coming season are
to be so modelled as to fit close to the
figure and that the main design and
desire was going to be to look slen-
der from top to bottom. The person
to whom she was addressing her re-
marks, closely examined the pattern,
as it was fitted on the dummy figure
and replied" we'll, any one that
couldn't look slender in that costume
couldn't look slender at all"
If the old time hoop-makers had to
make a living manufacturing hoops
for the ladies dresses now, they GER
tainly could not be governed in max
ing prices, by the size of the hoops,
for this writer remembers when a
q boy, seeing our country s~torekeeper
sell a whopping big pair of hoops for
sc cents and smaller ones at rs cents.
IL they were now to be priced and
sold according to size to fit these
slim dresses we see the price could
not possibly be higher than 5 cents
and on down, and then of course slit
skirts would require slit-hoops and
there would be more trouble all on
account of this slender business.
A colored old gentleman in our town
some time ago vas hauled up before
the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals on account of his
horse looking too slender to be a cred
it in the community. Now it seems a
hit strange that the law should provide
that a horse shall not look slender,
while on the other hand Dame Fash
1on' makes and enforces a law that
ladies SHALL look slender. Can it be
that a horse looking slender is a bad
sight to see in a community, but not
50 with a slim lady, granting, OF
course, that this slender style bust
Tess is to be kept on and upheld by
lawfashion.
Now this word slender and slender
ness, when we go back to the old
Eatin-German definition, is one that is
capable of being spun-out into a num-
Der OF. English definitions. The root
word got itself corrupted in being
transformed from a Latin into a mixed
Latin and German word, "Slinderin,"
and in these days of high cost of lily
ing it is easy for US to get into that
situation where we will have slender
ness Of diet. I have been charged my
self of having slenderness of hair on
top of my head. We used to have q
tall singing master up in Henderson
who appeared TO have a slender con
stitution; and some men to have
q slender supply of anything you ca!
On them for, and we often feel tina
way ourself. Then there is \such {
tEing as hanging on a slender core
0I1O II uSCu u U6 OAHU LAoN Jul OOO'
Brother Pickonsr in Florida, o.
one or more occasions closed hi
speech in a successful defending o
his client by Quoting the poets hymn
"On what a slender thread hangs OIL
eternal hope"
Sometimes n is made to cring
End fear lest one Of these close fttin
costumes should happen to be sewe
with too slender q thread. Of cours
it. is none of u business and thes
folks who are DESTROYS of putting ON
look of slenderness, very probably fee
that they do not need u assistanc
in these matters.
Then again, there is often a gres
Slenderness of reason in the doctrine
put forth by some of our multitude
teachers. Among the great numbt
of wonderful modern improvements
the world, We see that four separaI
tramways are to be laid down in ar
about the City of Jerusalem. The
will all start from the Jaffa Gate, IL
principal entrance into the city al
will run outside of the old city wal
into what is now the newer part
the town. The first will have a Ieng
of about two miles to the busine
center, the secOnd will be Of sfmil
length and will connect the Jewi
colonies to the North with the prime
pal entrance to the city, the third W
circle the city, taking in all the h
torfe sites, tho supposed scenes
Cricifction, the Hombs of the Kin,
Mount Of Olives and the Valley Of ]
hoshaphat, The fourth will run fr1
the JaHa Gate to Bethlehem about :
miles distant.
Lest it should be charged by sol
that there is n ~slenderness I'm thu RI