The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-05-05

Two thirds OF the women present
are in blouses covered with tawdry
laces that would not live through the
& season, and not alone is this unpatri-
otto but the women are not nvlng
within the incomes Of their husbands,
Mrs. William Pedrick, OF Baltim ore,
told the conservation OF clothing cou--
ference here yesterday afternoon, the
session being an auxiliary to the
fourteenth biennial convention OF tn
General Federated Women's CLUBS.
How many of the presidents Of the
state organizations who presented the
reports of their states war work last
Wednesday night, " ere dressed in =
manner befitting that work." sue
asked
incidentally, Mrs. Pedrick was
/ dressed In a three year Id blue ser-v
costume, very individual in outline
The subject OF dress during the war
was the topic. There were the 8-lyo-
Gates OF simplicity, and there was Miss
Helen Louise Johnson with her advo-
cacy of Standardization in wJmeus
dress, and also there were those who
took the other view, not that they
failed TO advocate economy, but that
they upheld fashions and styles and
asked the women 10 refrain from
wearing clothing the texture of when
vas necessary for uniforms for the
boys at the front
Mrs Pedrick presented The resp
lutions offered by the war dress com
mittee from Chairman Mrs. Frank A.
Vanderbilt The women agreed 10
wear simpler garments in cost, and 10
exercise more economy when texture
was considered but WHEN # came TO
making a uniform and trying to adopt
it to all women, the proposal did not
make much progress,
One resolution adopted by the con
ference was that there would be no
mourning worn in America for the
boys who give their lives in France,
That is the old Fashioned sombre
mourning would not be considered \
badge of honor. rather, was decided
on, an arm band, consisting of gray
star On a black arm band, and with
additional stars TO be increased with
dltional losses In the immediate fam
lily In the abandonment of conven-
tional mourning 1t was presented IN
more emphatic maner also after an
authority stated to the women that the
chemical proportions used to create
a fast black were also useful in tho
making of explosives, and that there
fore the double purpose would DO
served Of preventing too sombre as
pect OF people, and also of saving a
very much needed chemical
1t was considered that the mourning
arm band was to be known as a band
of honor. to indicate the sacrifices The
women of this country were making
on the battletields Of f rope
The announcement vas made in be-
half of the war time dress committee
that a war dress was new on eXhibi-
tion in the east and would soon find
its way into all the cities of the coun
Try. This costume. which is simple
in arrangement, may be secured at
three prices, $3.50, $500 and $45.0G
When President Mrs. Josiah Evans
Cowles of the Federation asked how
many of the women had not bought
new clothes to come to the conven-
ton, about half the audience arose
She asked the state presidents of the
organizations who had worn new
dresses TO present their war reports
TO arise, and few arose. Then Mrs.
Cowles made the announcement that
she thought that night the women
were beautifully dressed
A resolution adopted and which will
be presented to the convention for ap-
prevail is as follows:
"As clothing is one OF Americas