The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-30
DO FINE CLOTHES
 INFLUENCE WOMEN
You touched my heart; it gave a thrill
 Just like rose That opens at a Iady's will. It's bloom is always yours until
 You bid it close.''

All women love beautiful adorn- ments. Sometimes they go so far as to crave them in preference to sur roundings. No matter how prosper ous the young woman may be, or how often the same sharp warning has been dinned ins her ears, "If you ex- pend more money that you ought to on costly raiments that take your eye, tempting you, you will bring peril on the family she can seldom resist the temptation of pleasing herself.
 When a young woman chooses an abundance of clothes which foot up to extravaganza, she often falls into an error which is too deep to extri- cate herself from. There is nothing more pitiful, she has been obliged to hear, than that ''wilful waste makes woeful want Yielding at first in nocently to the influence of beauteous adornment, the mind revels in an at mosphere of coquetry which comes to the dashing. f1ne-appearing soon or late. Few. if, any, genteel, nice girls are blind to the fact that they must look their best in, any gathering when they appear if they must vie success fully with others of the fair sex.
 She is single, and why should she not have female preference shown her if she but carries out her liking? A woman is fair to look upon if she gets herself up attractiveIy, in the latest mode, for eyes to rest upon. Senti mentA influences clothes The girl who has nogbeau is apt to be very care less as to how she looks. If the col lar underneath her cloak is likely to be past it's first sfreshness she doesn't bother. There's no one to see. Why should she bother putting on clean prettier one2 There's no one who cares. 1
 The girl who has indu1ged in vani- ties at any corner she turns and who is liable to walk home with her is a1- ways careful of her raiment. She would sit up till midnight pressing out must have fine clothes no matter how she may have to count her pennies to buy remnants to freshen up her last years ilI-looking house gown. She must have a certain amount of pocket
 money to treat a. desirable girl friend toSaSbox of bonbons, if she has a, bach elor brother who is good catch. Economical as her mother is, she would hold up her hands in amaze ment if the father refused the beau tifu1 striving daughter any such neces- sities and appeals. She insists upon htheir giving way to their girls grat- ifcation at all odds, marking on the plea that new clothes give self-conf1- dence and will serve handsomely to their marrying some day. She whfs- pers that their burden will be lifted to some young manly shoulders;
 The girl who has indulged in varie- ties marries. She continues in the way she has been rought up to crave dnery, even when facing the dire pos- sibility of using up the largest part Of their early income. If the husband reminds her how wrong and foolish Eextravagance is, he. is bound to yield to his wife's wishes for peace's sake
 There is nothing more pitiful, on The other hand, than a wife who is kept down.. whose clothes. are so shabby that she cannot help being ashamed to show herself before friends or even neighbo She knows too well what the influence of clothes is. It's against nature for her husband to expect such a wife to be sweet and worshipfu1 The fretfuI, irritable wife, who receives a fair consideration of clothes for which she hopes as well as loves will be found most truly happy at heart, due to the change.