Evening star., 1915-05-02
In Going Over the Seasons Gowns It's Best
to Stake Ones Chances on the
e Skirt Remaining Until
July or August.
July or August.

F1 HERE are breakers ahead fol
The woman who is starting IT
on the summer sewing. 1t Is
x not the song of the shirt, but
the song of the skirt these days
We are faced on all sides with dis
courasing facts. Conflicting cond-
,ions existing in fashions rise up and
confront us with a problem every
week.
Changing fashions have been the
desrair of the ages to every one who
Is not commercialist. We acknowl-
edge they are the life of trade. but
protest they are the death of US.
The one thing that know We
must do is to grapple with the prob
lem twice a year. if not ottener. ana
trv to get the best of it Whatever
the result whether it is good or Ill tor
us. the wise ones know that each sea-
son is stepping stone to another.
Failures are stepping stones more
than successes, If we use them right
", as every philosopher from ST A"-
Sustine down has told US. but We are
imbued with the feeling that by the
time we know how TO dress II VIII ne
time to die.
One can say that truthtuliN ABOUT
many things-about life itself-so
there is no reason to attach specidi
significance to it in regard to dress.
One has the feeling of envy for the
individual who has the strength TO
disregard most of the fashions and
only slightly alter the cut and fabric
of her gowns and wraps from year to
year as the sea son and The purse die
tate
These women are never fashlona bly,
dressed, but their very disregard OF
the written rules gives them an en-
phatic quality which stamps them
and puts them apart from the others.
You may not like their way of dress
ing, but you recognize that 1t sug-
geSts power-the power to think out
something for ones self and stick to II;
There are few of us SO strong and
so egotistic. Most of us have the
spark of discomfort which leads US
into many follies. even if IT springs
from certain kind of humility which
suggests to US that the ways of other
women are better than our own and
that the law of fashion is above our
individual conception.
Some one has suggested that since
machinery has taken the place OF
of homes, the desire to be a tourist
an ambition for local habitation and
a name, and the kindergarten is sub
stituted for the nursery, it is there
fore well for women to have clothes
to worry over. They might forget
they had any responsibility in life.
these students of social conditions
argue. They remind you. unpleasant
ly, of David Harum's remark that it
was good for a dog to have fieas to
keep him from forgetting that he was
only dog.
Every woman will violently deny
the suggestion that she hasn't enough
to do in the world, but the fact re-
mains that most OF her activities are
of her own choosing. She adds 10
and multiplies the tasks that life i'm
poses upon her. Certainly she is
nearly rushed to death no matter in
what stratum of life she is placed and
she complains she hardly has time to
sleep, but if a local surgeon were to
operate on her activities and cut
away the things that were not neces
sary she would find that she could
lead a restful life.
These are the days which the poets
Ia I'D and the people nleet.uIth reslgna
Iion. but not always enthusiasm.
Housecleaning. moving to the country,
making clothes for the hot weather.