Arizona republican., 1916-11-15
A Reactionary Movement

ana cner mornings Tn thlS tropical climate make us feel more deeply the movement against the pajama of which have just heard The news comes from Philadelphia, where nothing changes unless it has to- and it is backed up by makers of evening wear and by certain dealers in the costumes of the bed chamber. Both these authorities on chic styles of nightwear say that the old flowing nightshrt of white Is coming back into its in all the best social circles and that the pajama of variegated colors from the gaudy to the somber, is passing away It is said that Frackville, Port Carbon Saint Clair and Lebanon places in the state of Pennsylvania where nightclothing is made by the wholesale buildings going up and machinery going simply 10 supply the popular demand for the old-fashioned nightgown It looks like birth for that very simple and unstable garment
 The accusation brought against the pajama is that it is efficient This that has buttons have to be buttoned up and unbuttoned and strings that have be tied up and united and that these strings sometimes get into snarl and be made to do either the the other, and that these various daily processes take time and that anything that takes time fails in the first element of efficiency It is true enough that the old nghtgown be handled with celerity. It is nothing but a bag anyway, with sleeves hitched on. and the get into out of it in the swish of lambs tail But after you have got into it what have you got? Unless you take reef in 1t you got nothing that
  have got only what is sensitive to every change of atmosphere than the best thermometer; you have got cold, indifferent and wandering stranger just in those hours when you need friend will stick you.
 Of course these elements of personal comfort small considerations against efficiency. but there are larger considerations. The pajama lends itself that love of which all trying into commonplace heads. Art is a varied thing be and there stages in it. The pajama fits in with every stage. Its coors be made glaring enough be visible the darkest night and with the lights out they be subdued to the gentlest a wasting melancholy. This cannot be done with the nghtgown. It born white. and a white washed thing it is bound to remain. To decorate it with colored squares stripes would merely in producing a textile nightmare. The further it got away from its alleged owner the better that would sleep.
 Then there is the consideration of decency It all depends upon the way the wind blows through the open window where the nightgown is To respond to telephone call in nightgown in the seclusion of ones roon,~is risky act. But the of being clothed goes with the pajama This is demonstrated by it's occasional on the theatrical stage. The suggestion. of course that pajama is all, but the expert audience sits in tranquil confidence that it will blow away. the night gown is more apt than not to do Or take the of household fire, which, although it is everyday matter. may happen Even those who up the dogma that the nghtgown is efficient would scarcely pick that nuttering cloud of white for sudden sojourn in the street while the fire tighten everything up with their sparks.
 The pajama has other virtues than those of out side looks The colder the bed upon first getting into 1t, the friend 1t is When the cat news you respond to it's call relatively normal temper ature. It mounts to your neck, in the dark of the night the nightgown playfully does with notion of strangling you. The pajama stays in it's place at all times and it is ready for emergen- cies. You trust it for what worth, and in the way of clothing it is a good deal, whereas the nighty nightgown is here this minute and up in the air the next.
 The best circles may be going in for the night gown. but if so they decidedly reactionary Prob ably most of the American people brought up in nightgowns, the extent that that balloon like gar back to rudmentary type to take up with it again. It lacks color and is unstable in all it's ways while piece of clothing it is nothing than myth
 At the Elks club the other day a well known Western Kentucky politician taking meal with friend.
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