El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-09
The Overdressed Girl and Matrimony
Family Spent
Frery Fughtens Away the Modern Young Man and
Handicaps Her Matrimonial Prospects,
By DOROTHY DIX
By DOROTHY DIX.

The parents justify themselves in do
ing this by saying-that they are giving
Mamie and Sadie their chance, meaning
thereby their matrimonial chance, for il
is a hideOus truth that even loving
fathers and mothers groom their daugh-
carefully and frankly as horse fan
Cier does his wares for the horse mar
ket.
Now, it is not to be disputed that a
pretty face is all the prettier when
framed in a picture hat; that a lssome
form looks all the more willOwy in 8
well cut and well hung frOck. and that
not even the grace of, heaven can do
as much to redeem a bad complexion as
a seal skin coat does. 1t is also be-
yOnd argument that men, generally
speaking, like to be seen out with well
dressed and stunning looking women.
So far the clothes have the best of the
argument, but there the matter ends.
Undoubtedly ''dOlling girl up to the
limit" to use the slang phrase of the
hour, will get her a beauX, young men
whose attentions are without intentions
and mean nothing. But over dressing
a girl wiz do more than anything else
in the world to handicap her marri-
mOnial prospects.
The modern young man is an IN
tensely practical individual, who wears
his pOcketbOOk over his heart, and
when he begins to think about marry
ing a girl he also begins to figure on
how much it would cost to support her,
and when he behoIds her clothed like
Solomon in all his glory he gets cold
feet,
Gee" he says to himself. that pink
silk thingumbob she's got on certainly
does make her look a peach, but I'm
wise it would set me back about two
months salary. None of this imported
French stuff for mine It's all right
to take a girl out to parties and the
theater whose clothes make men rub
Der, but when I marry III look about
for some girl who can make her own
dresses and won't expect me to tOg her
up as if she belonged to the Four Hun
dred.'
It is only too true that a sensible,
level headed ambitious young man.
with his way to make in the world is
not only not attracted to the over
dressed girl. but he is repealed by her,
especially if he knows that her people
are not in circumstances that would
justify them in giving her such eStrav-
agant raiment He sizes up the girl
who is dressed beyond her means as
eXtravagant, selfish and heartless. and
these are not the qualities that he is
looking for in q wife.
Overdressed Girl Drives Away Men.
If she lets her mother wear the same
old dress for three years. while she has
a dozen new ones every season, and if
she forces her poor old hump Shout
dered father to work overtime to pay
her bills, what will she do to hus-
band? he asks himself and the answer
is nothing that leads him to assume
her shopping ticket
To Overdress a girl is the surest way
TO drive away from her the men who
are worth marrying. It does the girl
an irreparable injury in that during the
most formative years Of her life it i'm
presses upon her plastic mind the idea
that clothes are the most important
thing i'm life. and the thing that she
must get at any cost to herself. The