The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-16

When a mother commences to have
trouble in keeping her sixteen year
old daughter dressed with becomin z
modesty her own record has been
fourteen years faulty. She should
have started her campaign of dress
reform when the daughter attained
the age Of two years.
This was the opening note OF the
state convention of the Illinois Con-
gress Of Mothers and Parent Teach
ers' association at Cairo, III. 1t was
struck by Mrs. B. F. Langworthy of
River Forest, president of the organi-
cation. Mrs. Langworthy, who said
she had never seen an immodest girl,
but had seen thousands immodestly
dressed, placed all the blame on the
mothers.
"Dont's" Urged on Mothers.
Bits of her advice to the mothers
attending the convention follow:
Keep jewelry off children.
Cut down the high heels.
Lengthen the short skirts.
II girl must wear georgette
crepe waist, give 1t nontransparent
"underpinning." s
Keep silk stockings out of school.
Have high school girls elbows well
covered. Few of them are beautiful.
1T is in.the kindergarten where
the evils Of bad dressing first make
serious trouble" Mrs. Langworthy
said. When you mothers send your
children to kindergarten dressed in
fancy dresses and shoes, and adorned
with bracelets and rings. they are
conscious of themselves all the time
and feel they are better dressed than
other children. The others who can't
have jewelry are filled with heart
ache, which at the age OF four is a
disastrous thing.
Start Early, Advice.
With jewelry at four years, i'm
modest clothes come at sixteen.
Father asks. Why do you let her do
it?' Mother replies, 4 can't help it,
And usually she can't. She should
have started fourteen years earlier.
II believe at least onc-quarter OF
the girls in our high schools are i'm
modestly dressed. A few years ago
three-fourths OF them were.
High heeled shoes are most I'M
suitable and out of taste either for
Office or for school. Girls should. not
wear silk stockings to school, nor low
necked waists, many Of which might
be mistaken for evening clothes.
The present popularity of thin
waists Is distressingly. The georgette
crepe waists are most Indecent.
Mothers have no right to permit their
daughters to. wear them. Some girls
wear their skirts almost to their
knees. 1t is immodest, especially
with the pale flesh colored stockings
worn so much.
Bad Eject on the Boys.
Mothers ought to think of the eff
feet their girls have on the boys who
see them. know of one boy who
insisted that his seat be changed be-
cause Of the clothes OF girl in front
Of him. She never seems to have
any clothes on" he told his mother.
He couldn't keep his thoughts on
school work.
You wont believe me, but this is
the costume I saw on a high school
girl a short time ago us she left the
building:
faie green nlBn neeleu slippers,
apricot colored silk stockings, short
taffeta georgette silk waist, hat
which combined the two shades, and
a coat OF apricot and green on her
arm. And they dress no worse at the
Oak Park high school than, at the
Hyde Park, the Evanston. and hun
dred others.
THE majority of these girls go to
offices, and there they dress just as
immodestly. And from that we have
the great problem of the girl and her
employer. 1 see in office girls with
lace waists, low necks. almost evening
dresses. and elaborate errings. /
notice them In Offices Of my friends,
and / wonder why they do not send
such girls home to dress properly.
Worse Than Ever ut Forty.
Some people excuse the bad dress
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