The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-04-06
sILK-sTOCKING GIRLS.

True love, we know. is blind; defects that
blight
The loved ones charms, escape the lovers
sight,
Nay, pass for beauties.
Everyone loves the trim, dainty girl,
the lass with the rose-besprinkled or
candle dress and floating ribbons, the
eggshell hat, white gloves, maybe
shoes and silk stockings.
She's delightfully."- quaint picture
to contemplate, but the poor young
man, if he is wise, will not go step
beyond admiration of her, if suspi-
cion turks in his mind that every dol
lar the girl can rake and scrape goes
on her back. Young men should be
educated up to the knowledge of what
such dress goods cost, whether perish
able or durable; what a girls hat is
worth, and if she is her own mill1ner
or not. The maybe pumps he might
forgive. for the new slipper fad is so
dear to almost every girls heart, but
if he catches a glimpse of silk stock
ings on a girl who has not wealth to
back up such extravaganza, he should
ponder we'll ere he asks her to share
his fortune for life, for better or for
worse. She would insist on having
the greater share of what he could
earn and would make his cash fly like
the down of thistle.
Every girl who is obliged to count
her pennies should always buy clothes
which can be easily freshened up by
laundrying Silk stockings mean one
wearing and ever after tears OF dis
appointment over their. frailty, and
hours of mending after each wearing,
as long as they hold together. The
silk stocking vanity costs a girl dear.
She has to count just how many
dances they will stand the strain OF;
how far she dare walk in them and
speculate long and earnestly whether
or not her dainty short frock is des-
tined to display graceful, well-turned
ankle sheathed in alluring silken
sheen, or develop holes that would
make her the laughing stock of all
whom she met.
Sensible maidens admire silk stock
ings. but invest in Isle and look quite
as trim and dainty as their vainer Sis
tiers. They are extravagances which
only the right girl should persist in
indulging in. She does not have to
spend long hours of valuable time
over the mending basket. Clothes do
not make the girl. The sooner young
women realize this, the nearer they
will get to the goal of matrimony. The
moment girl commences to put on too
many ruffles and furbelows young men
begin to imagine she is getting old
and is endeavoring to coax the charms
of youth to linger by her. The SIM
pier a woman's dress, the more pleas
ing it is to the average masculine eye.
Here is a striking instance of the
truth of this assertion: At a recent
country dance at which the bellies OF
the village, in their best bibs and
fuckers, had gathered there appeared
a young girl who clerked in a bakery.
The daughters of the rich were gowned
in silk from head to foot. The bakers
clerk wore dotted swiss which cost
ten cents per yard and was made by
her own hands. She looked so differ
emit from the other girls, so natural,
simple and sweet, she attracted the
attention of the most desirable mar
riageable young man present. He Sc
cured an introduction and soon after
she was wearing his betrothal ring.
Costly, inappropriate clothes do not
win hearts.