Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-24
Top. Mrs. William c. Storey Oeft)
and Mrs. Percy Pennybacker. Bot
tom. Mrs. William Borland (left)
and Mrs. Joseph e. RansdeII.

school is to be a real center of the best
social life in the community, it must be
presided v e by a teacher who has at
least some degree of permanency.
Nothing will sooner give this
premanency that a comfortable house,
with a plot Of ground. where the teach
er can have a settled feeling.
Cover Wide Scope.
"By giving the teacher a home
where he might become q dominant
force in h community life, we would
be giving every department in our
federation a new avenue for reaching
the people. Art. civics, conservation.
industrial and social condition, legisla-
tive, literature and library, music and
public health. would be called upon to
serve in such a community as this.
ere are today other forces think
Ing. planning and working along the
line l have indicated, all standing ready
to cooperate with us in this service.
IF you ask me how shall we work
to secure this, 1 would not dare
answer. We must study before acting.
But this 1 know full we'll, if we go at
this conscientiously. thoughtfully,
prayerfully. the way will OPEN"
100000 for Dress Reform.
Mrs. Robert j. Burdette. of Pasa-
dena. CAL. in a plea for sane dress. as
SCI Ccu. we nave fOV,UUU WOMEN Id
voring our plan for dress reform and
we will ask the convention to indorse it.
Some OF the styles are distressing
and extreme n it is those we would
! to change" she added. w would
IKE to see women wear dresses that
are large enough for them to step in
without inconvenience. There are n
number of women who are ready to
dress In a sane II the manu-
lecturers will allow them to. They can
dress beautifully, appropriate. decently
and still be in good style.
THE shop girl is the one who makes
the fashion for the society woman. who
goes to a shop and asks for the very
latest There is nothing for the girl
at the shop to do but to bring out the
latest. That Is why we wish to have
the manufacturers join with us. in the
reform"
Mrs. Burdette spoke to an expert and
apprectative audience.
with forbidden knowledge" the
speaker said. came self consciousness.
with self consciousness came the sense
OF shame and the protective garment
and thus did the transgressions of our
first parents cover all future genera
tons with a blanket mortgage OF clothes
which we are paying off with heavy
interest.
Craze for clothss.
Whether clothes were first worn as
an ornamental covering or for protec-
ton matters little. for we seem even to
this day to consider this Of prime i'm
p%ortance. No matter II the neck 10 ex-
posed nearly to the waist line and the
limbs nearly half way to the knees, II
only the style be followed. health and
suggesttveness r lost sight OF In the
craze to be in fashion.
Miss Grace Hutchins. costume de-
signer OF Columbia university, says the
morals OF q woman are read In her
gowns and that slovenly dress displays
mental traits: that the woman who 10
addicted to extreme styles Ia sure to be
an extremist In everything else. But
she adds she does o believe. that
Svery woman who wears immoral
clothes Il necessarily immoral. She de-
ciared that women = thoughtless and
q large extent Of them recklessly and
relentlessly follow prevailing fashions
without knowing why"
The speaker. herself clad In unosten.
tatiouo white. asserted that American
women are clothes mad and that no.
where else 70 seen the same elaborate
overdreseing. . among the declasse
women abroad.
Commerce Arbi<sr Of Eashion.
ArD. Burdette declared that com
merce = another arbiter Of fashion.
Quoting . Newspaper. she said:
VNor many years the great Of