The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-11-26

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woman, in the concrete, has derived
from his inventions. 1t makes a
goCdly list, and when man begins to
pat himself on the back, he does it
plenty.
The list included the adjustment
of the kerosene lamp for the electric
light, and the gas lamp; the force
pump, for the open we'll; the "fireless
cooker" for the kitchen stove;
vacuum sweeper for the broom, and
a few more inventions that still cost
as much as a first mortgage, and
which never get beyond the city
limits.
Another list might be compiled,
and it would make the average man
blush for some of the other things
he has been responsible for, in MAX
ing women adopt. First and foremost
would come what we are pleased to
call ''the fashions" and the bolster
case dresses, the toWer-o -Pisgah
quilts and trimmings, the cob-web
stockings, the skinny petticoats, the
balloon sleeves, the hoop-skirts, the
coats with no shape but the sleeves,
the shoes with heels like spools, all
were invented by man, and he didn't
stop at their invention, either.
Whenever prominent citizen"
or a leading divine or "a we'll
known business man. begins, at
about half-past middle age, to cast
longing eyes at the Primrose path
and the loiterers thereon, does he
choose a female who conforms in any
way to the wife of his bosom, if said
wife clings to the ample skirts, when
sausage skins are worn by the Prim-
rose path travelleYs? If the wife
wears only her own, ingrowing hair,
when rats ,puffs, coronet braids and
such are adjoining the hairdressers
window, and taking up ad space in
the women's papers, isn't it a safe
bet that he picks out a charmer who
is wearing all she can afford to buy
and pin on her none-too-large head :?
If the wife has her hats trimmed
over until the straw or the felt re-
fuses to hold trimming even if it
is put on with safety pin, isn't
the Delicia of Doubtful Street the
one who wears the biggest hats,
topped with the frilliest of plumes,
and the most gorgeous of beauty
roses?
Yea, my sistern, it is safe bet
that all this is so, and now we come
to the milk in the cocoanut: we have
no elderly women fashions, because
the elderly man, who is really the
ruler of the Universe, much as we
hate to acknowledge it, has ordained
that he will grow old, and wrinkled
and bald, and fat, and fiat-footed, if
he has to, and can't find a barber and
tailor, who will keep off the out
ward and visible signs of all the
ravages of time, but he draws the
line at seeing a replica of himself, in
the wife of his bosom.
So, dear children, this is why you
see old ladies who, ought to be at
home, with their feet in felt slippers,
and their bodies in soft wrappers,
and knitting in their hands-at card
parties, with the ck-of-something
where the knitting needles ought to
be; with the spool-Leeled shoes,
where the felt slippers ough to be,
and with corsets down to their knees
and up to their chins, when they
ought to be looking more like COM
Portable, fat pillows.
AS the universal tribute to MAN,
women have, and will, array them
selves in just this way. They will
Ago to beauty parlors, pay ten dollars
visit, have some of the skin peeled
their faces, the fat off their chins,
&. ingrowing freckles and moles siz-