Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-11-02
A GOOD SUGGESTION

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why not have the high school uni
forms for girls? If thought | could
win enough adherents to the cause
IN Whitman county, or in eastern
Washington, for that matter. | would
launch it Immediately.
The women of the Montana Agri-
cultural College have adopted it. and
why not We? A neat, nifty MILDLY,
ana skirt, with common sense shoes
ana hose, can cover comfortably just
as much individuality of taste and
IaiI 10 dwarf it. as the Red Cross
uniform can, yet there is no appro-
Drum connected with the use of the
latter, both for effect and effective
ness In utilitarian circles.
The modern mother Is more or
Tess hand-tied slave these days.
Georgette crepe and rustling silks,
satlns. yelyets, furs and such. have
so blinded the eyes of the daughters
mat mothers, too, are suffering from
the shadow cast into her former
comm on-sense garments seeing OPP
ties.
Father, mother, and the youthful
members of the family wear shoes
that need second mending and a
daily shine, while the daughter in
high school wears her second or third
par OF suede or tan that cost the
triple or quadruple of them.
What happens to that family, in
the end? The thoughtless, beauti-
fully clad daughter rises on her
| Georgette winglets to realm beyond
that occupied by the humdrum fam
| lily; home is "A place to care only for
| her physical wants; lack of reel
procity becomes apparent in the fam
| lily circle. and those who must give
all Of time and means to this one
| member chafe under it. Irritability,
| long dormant, becomes haunting
| spirit of all the little actions and
| words used there
Equality is gone, and for what?
kipling called it rag" and that
is as good a name for a worn out or
much used garment as any.
Morally and spiritually, what is
the status of this lovely siken clad
| girls soul development? The
| chances are ten to one against her
| rising beyond mediocrity in study;
| her outlook is selfish and material,
and she lacks the brOadness to lead
| her classmates in the paths of use
| fulness, charity and becoming humil-
| ity. These lacking, her power for
good is lessened. Her physical
adornment has neutralized her use
| fulness because it has created a caste
| system of precedence for external APP
! pearance, and the other students
| whose mothers escaped the Georgette
| shadow, will choose for their lead
ers that girl who has had the time
| to become more selfless, and more
| loyable
Mothers, do you believe me. or is
| my premise distorted beyond all
| bounds of the semblance OF truth?
There is, too, another fruit to be
| reaped from the continuance of this
detestable fad now prevalent among
our high school youth.
What of the nine girls who can
| not follow the pace set by the gOr-
| geous tenth? Pity beats at the
| hearts of their mothers as they de-
scribe to them this radiant creature,
| and sensible as they may be, many
| a little note of longing creeps into
| the recitals Girls in their teens need
| a remedy, even for being seventeen,
| said Robert Louis Stephenson. They
have not yet reached the age of poise
and good judgment. 1t is just pos
sible that mother is a bit old fash
toned and the Georgette mothers are
| only abreast with the times. There
is no telling.
The quiet, plain school clothes be-
come intensified, in their class, and
restlessness is borne of it.
| And last, but not least, it could
be termed the War Time Uniform
for High School Girls.
ALFARETTA PORTER.