White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-21
SISTERS
SCORE DRESS
SPEAKERS SAY HEALTH AND
sUGGEsTIvENEss ARE LOST
SIGHT OF IN CRAZE TO BE IN
FASHION

the women assembled at Chicago for
the biennial convention of the Gen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs
Mrs Robert j. Burdette, of Pasade-
ma, Calf. discussed Dress in Its
Relation o Morals" while the as
semblage itself, by a great MAORI
ty, exemplified the beauties of sarto-
rial simplicity.
One woman, Mrs. Rudolph Blank
enburg, wife of the mayor of Phila-
delphia, stood on the platform very
squarely in her very sensible" shoes
and turned the laugh on the conven-
ton itself The Philadelphia wore
a skirt of ample folds, with no hint
of a slit and a waist modest and
comfortable.
For Is minutes before Mrs. Blank
enburg stood up delegate after dele
gate had spoken to the effect that
copies of the resolutions should be
made available to the presidents of
State declarations.
THE resolutions are available
said Mrs. ~Blankenburg. and always
have been available. not only to the
presidents OF clubs and State FEEDER
atoms, but to n member who will
take the trouble to get the printed
record. They are to be had in De-
tober preceding the convention-you
don't have to wait till January.
There's something for you to think
over she concluded. There was a
moments silence and Their a litter.
Mrs. Burdette. In discussing mod
r dress. spoke to an expert and
appreciative audience.
with forbidden knowledge" said
the speaker. came self-eonscious-
ness and with circumstances
came the sense of shame and the
protective garment-and thus did
the transgressions of our first par
ents cover all future generations
with a blanket mortgage of clothes
which We are paying off with heavy
interest.
w neither clothes were first worn
as an ornamental covering or for
protection matters little. for we seem
even to this day TO consider the first
of prime Importance. No matter If
the neck be exposed nearly to the
waistline and the limbs nearly half
way 10 the knees. If only the style
be followed. health and suggestive
ness are lost sight of in the craze to
be in fashion"
The speaker herself. clad In UNI
cstentatious white. asserted that
and that nowhere else is seen the
same elaborate over-dressing save
among the d~eclasse women abroad.
Throughout Europe" she contin-
ued. 1.-The women of high nobility
and social position are like wrens
compared with these ~cockatoos of
int utfdti yin II II Ill ulDitdCdH III
thought that 1t is the latter who set
the standard which our fashionable
women follow with naive avidity."
Mrs. Burdette declared that COM
merce is another arbiter of fashions,
Quoting a newspaper she said:
For many years the great mass
of civilized humanity has been cloth
ed mainly in cotton. Outside the
Orient. which SUI Its own
product. IS per cent. of the total
production OF cotton fabrics is from
raw material grown in the United
States. Imagine, then. the feelings
of the cotton growers Of the North
ern states when that mere tube of
cloth, the hobble skirt. came into
fashion. BY that edict of the lead
ing modistes of Paris and London
the demand for ray cotton to be
manufactured into dress fabrics was
reduced by two-thirds. or possibly
three-fourths. The hobble was the
supreme effort of the French design
ers on behalf OF the great manufac-
turers of silk goods. who are their
masters. For the less material re-
quired to make a skirt the greater
number of m who can, and nat
urally will. wear silk instead of cot
tom
The speaker gave especial empha-
sis to her next statement:
THE following of such dictation