Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-05
The Country Home
AN AFFEcTzoNATE WORD OF AD-
VICE
BY MRS. W. III. FELTON,


I do wish I could make it plain to
the young girls who read our Tri-
Weekly Journal how much 1 admire
pretty, we1l-behavel, genteel young
women who have just advanced into
the era of young Iadyhood. I love
pretty flowers, 1es&fy clothes. pretty
everything that goes to the adorn
ment of such young persone--whilc
the bloom is on the peach" and "the
dew is on the rose;" but the thing
that is superior to everything else
that money can buy or circumstances
can afford, is the pure, sweet, limo
cent heart that is inside the lovely
form and that looks out Of the eX-
pressive eyes of the girl herself.
I really think lovely young girl
in the blush of maidenhoPd is the
most charming thing under the sun,
if she is good and sensible and de-
voted to everything that Is of good
report. She is the joy of the home if
she fills her place with dutiful at
tention to the old, and careful at
tention to the young of her family.
Everything and everybody will love
her, will enjoy her presence all the
time and miss her so much If she
must go away. She will bring happi-
ness and shed abroad a fine example
and the heart of her husband will
sing her praises and he will safely
trust in her sterling character when
she sets up her individual home and
family. She will show herself a
self-respecting unit in any family
that she is connected with, and she
will reflect credit on the parants who
raised her, and. her children in after
life will rise up and call her
blessed"
Such thoughts as these passed
through my mind when I read the
story in a late magazine of a girl
who concluded to dress very loud
and look very Fashionable with f1na
clothes on her body and exhaustive
adornments, but which style of dress
was very low on the neck, shoulders'
arms and back and with very short,
scant skirts, that evidenced a desire
to expose her shapely silk-stock-
inged legs in public company.
She was good girl, moral girl,
but she copied style Of dress that
the demi-monde were pleased to wear,
and she was rudely accosted in a
concluded she was hanging out an
accustomed sign of lewd proclivities.
She was dreadfully exercised over
the encounter, and told her mother
and father that the visiting stranger
ought to be punished for his auda-
cious attitude toward her. The
mother was greatly eXasperated, but
manners and thoughts, told her that
it was her dress and her folly in
adopting it's immodest appearance
which had made the man of the
world mistake her character.
Paris, always the birthplace Of dar-
ing costumes and grown more so be-
cause of the reactions of war (Which
always evidences a looser code of
public morals), has adopted a style
of dress or undress that our Ameri-
can women have foolishly adopted.
Everybody knows that men will never
most nude bodies or naked legs. 1t
is a mark of pristine civilization
to clothe the human body in modest
attire. Savages go naked, but as soon
as they feel the movings of better
spirit or seek culture, they will uni
versally adopt style of dress that
speaks for modesty or something akin
to it.
I understand, however, that the
modern attire for fashionable women
has been so generally accepted that
the public has become more or "less
accustomed to almost naked wom-
ems busts and limbs. Its general
ment against it's immodesty.
But pretty young maidens are so
attractive in modest garb and are SO
generally admired that it seems a
pity that they do not understand the
folly of doing such daring things in
dress, when they can secure all the
admiration their hearts might covet
by other and less disturbing cos
tunes.
1 had only one little daughter, but
she was, lovely ito hers young mother
She went to heaven before she could
talk plainly. 1t almost broke my
heart to see her die, but I take com
fort in the thought that "God doeth
all things we'll" and if I meet my
daughter in the" better land" 1 will
know she is just as sweet, as good
and as Noteworthy as when she left
me, spotless in her purity and limo
cence.
Dear young girls, listen to an aged
grandmother's kind and loving words
when she tells you that your greatest
charm lies in your self-respecting
noannerS and modest attire