Evening star., 1915-01-16
FEW DUDS, BARE NECKS
AND NO HATS, HIS PLEA
DR.. Wiley Vigorously Defends Mod
ern Form of Dress for
Women.

Diverting his attention for the nonce
from comestibles to clothes, and hurdling
from benzoate to bare necks, DR.. Harvey
w. Wiley, national authority on what to
eat, at a meeting of the Child Welfare
Association Of Anacostia, in the parish
hall Of Emmanuel Episcopal Church last
night, vaulted into the ranks of the fixers
of funny fashions.
"a bas the high collar, Vive la decol-
]ete for men as well as women" was DR.
Wiley's slogan.
The fewer clothes one wears, he as
serted, the better one is off, physically.
The dortor made a vigorous defense of
present forms of dress among women ana
girls rather than advocating what
Artemus Ward once called 1.-The klassic
kostume of the Greek slave Dresses
that are low at one end high at the
other, the doctor said. were all right; in
fact he urged women generally to adopt
the low-neck style of gown for all oc-
casions
Foe of the Hat, Too.
Furthermore, DIR. Wiley expressed the
hope that one of these days men, too.
might Danish collars from their haber-
streets, summer or winter, garbed in
shirts that exposed their wishbones.
And again the doctor, who hasn't a
great deal of hair on the top of his
head, where the hair had a right for
to grow" lined up with Buffalo Bill,
the Sutherland sisters and Elberthub
bardists, warning humanity to shun
the insldious barber shop as one would
shun the plague, consign all hats to
the ash barrel and go abroad wearing
nothing but their hair on their minds.
DR.. Wiley pointed to his own shining
dome of thought as a horrible ex-
ample of what comes of wearing hats
and getting on familiar terms with
the fellow who intones Next; next
gent" and dabs lather in your eye.
Would Discard Shoes.
And, wholly regardless Of possible
chilblains and frostbitten toes, the
doctor urged the fond parents present
to permit their offspring to discard
shoes and go barefooted in the winter
as well as in summer. 1t was noticed
that a unanimous shiver rippled along
The spines of the aforesaid fond pa
rents at this point in Dr.. Wiley's ad-
dress.
Dr. Wiley was scheduled to speak on
the proper care of children, his other
remarks being merely discursive and
aside from the regular order of busi
ness.
The presence of disease among chill
dren, he said. was a disgrace to any
community, and with proper care could
be entirely eliminated.
Importance of Play.
play is the most important part of
a child's life he said further, and ad-
vocated more play in the public
schools. He said city governments
should provide ample Fairgrounds for
the children and they should be avail
able at all times.
He dwelt at length upon the proper
food to be given children and declared
that child welfare associations every
where should pay more attention to the
we'll child usually developed it's intel
lectual side more than one not in good
physical condition.
Invited to Schools.
DR.. H. NJ. Johnson. supervising prin-
cipal of the ninth division of schools,
extended a special Invitation to the
parents to visit the schools and see
what was being done there for the chill
dren. Mrs. Arthur B. Suit, president
of the association, presided.
Before the addresses some of the pu-
pills of the fifth grade of the Van Buren
School gave several scenes from the
life of Abraham Lincoln. The children
taking part were Eugene Beck, Harry
Curtiss, Evelyn Crossing ham, James
Finotti, Millard Fenton and Charles