South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-17
WinDYed CLack Writes About:
Mothers New Clothes

Hurrah. the plain woman is going
TO have a chance-at last.
Cheer up. Madam Heavyweight,
your turn is coming.
Smile again, MatrOn Of the Settled
Figure-they've begun to think of
you in the smart shops Of Paris and
London. And this means that you
can go into a store and find some
thing that will really fit you, and
that won't make you look like
elderly baby, dressed In the younger
baby's cast-Off clothes
No more frilly ruffles. and flut-
terry, fly-away skirty-cOats for Fat
and-Forty. Fat-and- Forty is going
to have special designs, especially
for her, and she will look like what
she is, and not like "A pitiful imita-
ton OF what she will never be again,
as long as she lives
Rejoice. on. suffering world skip
and dance. We little hills, and be OF
good cheer, oh, downcast heart Of
man! Mama" is going TO look like
Mama" now, and not like "tunnin',
pretty baby'-at last.
What a relief!
Best of all. there are going 10 be
matronly. middle-aged models for
matronly. middle-aged dressers. And
Mother will not buy a blue muslin
frOck embroidered in daisies, and
think she'll look all right in it. just
because she saw il on Miss Tottie
Coughdrop. with a perfect Thirty
two-and Tottie was perfectly sweet
with il on.
Beauty i'm Every Age.
When a woman of a certain type
and certain age wants to buy a
frock or a coat or a hat. she can
pick out a model of something her
own appearance and watch results.
oh. the dear little ingenue hats.
and sweet little poke bonnets that
Mother will not buy for herself,
when she sees how Our Mrs.
Brown" looks IN these things.
But-there's something / object
10 in the tale from London and
from Paris-and that thing is the
heading OF the story.
"Homely Women 10 Have
Chance"-so il runs.
Are all women hOmely just be-
cause they are no longer young? &?
Is every woman who is thin in
stead Of slim, or fat iRstead OK pleas
antly plump, necessarily hideous?
Must we all look like Sweet Six
teen" or wrap our heads in a veil,
and stink along like an Oriental
slave woman?
don't believe it. To me there is
beauty in every age and in every
type.
It's all very we'll 10 have a young
and beautiful mother-but some
how. I'd rather have my mother
look-like a mother. and not like
Mademoisene De Springtime. the
little blonde at the end of the first
row in the newest musical comedy.
Mothers face isn't as fresh as IL
was when Father fell in love with
her. Her eyes aren't so bright as
they used TO be. and her hair is be-
ginning 10 gray-what of IL? She's
all the dearer TO those who love her.
for every line and every wrinkle and
every mark the years and her anx-
iety for you have left her dear. dear
face.
Would You Change Her?
Would you change her looks-if
YOU could? Would YOU turn her
hair 10 gold, and her cheeks TO rose
and her mouth 10 a Cupid's bow
All. no, never.
Mother is Mother-and nobody
else in all the wide, wide werld will
ever look so beautiful 10 you as she
does-why call her homely, lust be-
cause she is no longer young?
There is beauty at forty. a beauty
Of maturity and settled judgment
There is dignity az fifty, there Is
peace and benignity at siNty-or
there should be-and it's just about
time the fashion makers OF IN