The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-15

II - 1AAo AAooAA' Mrs. Neff, president of the Ohio State W. c. T U., in an address re- gently delivered at Cleveland. said that the example of modest and suit able dress must be set on the street, example. She declared that the de- cadence of a, nation has always been in the dress and the customs of tis women. She continued: "It is a mat ter of history that garments slashed to the knee were decided upon as means of Haunting the women of an cient Greece as a marketable conn1o-s dity. believe the time is ripe for general revolt of seIf-respectfng worn- en against the wearing of styles dis played by the courtesans Of Paris. Ev- cry one Of us is responsible for the example we set young girls and I be- lieve we shall be forced to adopt a plain dress, almost as severe as un- form, for street wear. We can't get it in the ready-to-wear shops and dressmakers who eater to the fash ionable trade will not make them be- cause they are not willing to let back number work leave their establish ments. We cannot all make them ourselves or get sewing women in the hpne. I believe any dressrnalSer who would design the right dress to meet the need would have all that she could
 
 
 1 A paragrapf1er discovers that the difference between a dream and a nightmare is that in one you are sail { ing through space with an angel on either side of you, and in the other you are falling off fifteen story building. ss r--------- | Another girl, at Dowagiac, Miclai- gan, has been burned to death by the Itreacherous celluloid comb. This class l of goods Is as dangerous as dynamite in the kitchen stove.
 You may give kids a bushe1 of pres ents each on Christmas morning, but none of them will cause more real joy than the old time rag doll or the mon-- key on stick.
 1 Royalty is only human after all The average prince and princess, in the privacy of their palaces. will chew the rag, throw pillows and furniture at each others heads and cuss each other Just as hard as their pIebeian brothers and sisters do in their more humble homes.
 Plenty of talk about eusenics. but the average fellow doesn't know whether it is new form Of the itch or a cure for disternper. One writer says a girl should know all about her afr f1anced before. she marrfes him. If
 
 be declared of. Another wants to know if the eugenic women should be corn-fed. Bless their sweet souls, eu- genics is nothing but complete knowledge of anatomy and physio1- ogy.
 It is said that hair ribbons for men will come in style again. They werel worn up till the middle of the eigh- teenth century, or later, and every old jack tar wore his pig tail. nicely braided. and tied with a tarry rope let, making him look too cute for any thing
 more chapIains on the various battle ships. The cry does not seem to come from the sailors themselves, but fronnl those higher up. As preachers are pf-eminently men of peace and love the soil with a love that is intense, it is hard to persuade one of them to face the dangers of the deep and the smell of the briny.
 Funny to see. Two men with fif- teen cents between them, telling what they would do if they had a million dollars.
 A man of uncertain age may feel as front porch with one leg on the rail- ing, but he is disillusioned after he has walked four miles up the river with his rod over his shoulder on sultry morning
 LECTURE AT HIGH SCHOOL.