The Cordova daily times., 1917-11-13
FASHION LETTER WRITTEN FUR
 THE TIMES
CWritten for the United Press)

(Written for the United Press) There was once a schoolmaster gruff
 Who delighted his pupils to cuff. He'd arise with much choler
 And grab a poor scholar, But now collars and cuffs aren't so
 rough.
 Though they say in the Fall We'll find out one and all That collars will be rough enough Ruff Stuff.
 NEW YOR, Nov. 13-Its wee bit ruff, my dears, and it has us by the ears. and a rough neck you will have to be this Fall if you want to be real smart and correctly dress the part for a ruffles neck's notin now at all
 In the days of Good Queen Bess 1 (though l really cannot guess why they call her good now pray can you conjecture) ruffs were worn by all the swells all the beaus as we'll as belles made of linen starched and pleated of fine texture.
 | Now 1 thought when just a child, 1 though the theory now seems wild, that the reason they wore ruffs in that far day was because when Queen Ress said "Off with his head. That the ruff would sort of help things along in this way. When the heads man made the chop just below the ruff-kerflop-Then the ruff around the head would make a riii like the friHs we have today on our lamb chops when to stay there is company to dine and eat there fill.
 Now those headsmen you see over rough were bound to be while the chopped off heads were over ruff as we'll but hope no one today will go off her head that way over ruffs of any other fashion spell. In those days it is quite true that men were ruffed up too and the greatest brains emerg- ed from out the grill. Bill Shakes peare wrote his best, I am sure, when he was dressed in ruff where upon he wiped his facile quill.
 And when Drake and Raleigh sailed while the angry pillows railed and the winds and waves were rough, in linen fine, I've no doubt, they both stepped out on deck and when a shout said; ] q see you're rough, oh waves, do you see mine?"
 Just fancy it today Shackletor should dress this way or MT. Perry or old Dr. Cook. If H. G. Wells could
 write in ruff he'd be a sight and
 don't believe I'd buy his latest book
 But 'tis needless thus to fret for they have not as yet thrust their necks in
 to fashions yoke these present times
 and just the women now dears, are 1T
 ruffs up to their ears though they arc
 quite sufficient for these rhymes. l Quite a problem for the stout, tha . they'll have to figure out, all this ruff = seems to promise for the Fall. How
 an extra chin is going to be tucked
 in is a thing cant elucidate at all
 Think what quantities of lace, if vol have a full moon face, it will mak, you ruff much fuller still, yards anC
 yards of muslin too, it will take tt
 make into frill, your fulsome fac'
 won't fully fill
 III But whether thin or fat, it will b. ! bOHlt art dl ludl tU lO cat Ou II meals in a ruff. Spots of garavy O.
 soup will soon cause your ruff t' l droop. We may have to use a stray
 for liquid stuff. And how ever vii we kiss? Do you think of this Fo II a stiff starched ruff's no aid to os
 culation. For if you kiss gent you
 ruff will sure get bent and that vii
 also dent your reputation. For thus your ruff will show like a record, don you know, how oft you've yielded tt
 the kiss temptation. Oh it's going tC
 be tough on all the loving stuff-DaI Cupid may as we'll take a vacation