The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-17
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Life is an eternal question mark.
From babyhood to old age we are
constantly asking, Why? Why this
abuse, why that injustice, why this
permitted wrong, why this, that. and
the other thing that seems not right
or not desirable From weighty mat
ters we come down to the more trivial
affairs of life, still questioning, still
desiring information, still asking that
unanswerabe questions, Why?
The way of woman's dress (and
undress) greatly agitates the ques
tioning mind. The aim of dressing.
after comfort is considered, is to
make woman attractive and good TO
look upon; why then will she buy
pretty, expensive goods, and straight
way, proceed to disfigure herself
with them? She will make her skirts
SO narrow that she cannot take
natural step and must needs go mine
ing along like a cripple toed chicken.
A graceful womanly walk is out of
the question, and so she totters and
teeters along on shoes with the ridi
culous little heel under the small OF
her foot, and looking at her, actually
makes you feel uncomfortable for her
discomfort, and you say, Why will
she make herself look like that?
Then the length of the skirt, or
more properly speaking, the lack OF
length, and again we say, Oh, Why?
Why should my wife display the con-
formation of her neither limbs to every
Tom, Dick and Harry that chooses to
gaze thereupon. and why do l permit
it? Truly, | don't know. Just here /
might give a little Indian illustration.
The friends of an old Chickasaw were
trying to persuade him to quit drink
ments, used this. that his wife did
not like his drinking. Yes" he said.
81 know my wife she no like II, but
/ [ likes It," Reverse that, and you
have mans attitude toward the short
dress, the scandalously short dress. not
the sensibly short one which is admir-
| able.
/ Sometimes these short skirts reveal
/ limb that is noble and comely TO
/ look upon, but AS often there Is
shown n length of bone, that is pitiful,
and startling; you know it is bone.
for in that meagerness there can be
no flesh, and sometimes IL seems that
| the more the attention OF the limb.
/ the shorter the dress. Why. and
I Wherefore? But II is not only at the
/ bottom of the dress that We exclaim.
/ Why? Fashion has decreed that wo-
mems necks may be bare, also that
| she may go on the street with arms
bare to the shoulder and women seem
to vie with eacn other as 10 which
shall bare the most surface Where
Is this thing going To stop?
Look back ten years and consider
the changes that have taken place
since that time In the direction of
making bare our women to the public
gaze. What can we expect or not
expect. at the end Of the next de-
cade? Where shall modesty be then
but gone into oblivion. unknown and
unsung. Pursuing this late madness,
comfort IL no, considered. health Is
not considered, and sooner or later. n
price is. must be. paid for these indis-
cretions of baroness During the last
cold spell, the very coldest morning
| saw delicate looking little girl
going ito her work at an early hour
with no sleeves or covering on her
arms. with her dress as low as II
dared 10 be at tho top. and as high
as II dared 90 be nj the bottom, and
| know she was suffering cold. more
over, sho was inviting rheumatism
and ncutrltls and all tho horrors oi
that ilk. Where was her sensible
solicltous mother and Why7
our women. and God pity them
are doing their best 10 Danish mod
csty, and to teach their little girls
to know nothing of this lovely ndorn'
mcnt Of womnnly character, our lit
tie girls are sent into the arccts
In dresses scarcely meeting tho lower
hip line. and ut every bend Of IN,
body, the walstllne under tho cloth
ing is visible. From the aforesaid
lower hip line. II n naked expansc Of
leg down TO the abbreviated sock
and VIZ sce tall girls prancing about