Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

his Absolem as we'll as his Solomon.
The average boy, as a rule, enjoys
intimate acquaintance with his
father. His first reflections always
center around the particular excel
lence of his own father. He starts
are the folks" If the parent can
retain this reported place in his boys
mind and nothing, occurs to make the
boy suspect or discredit his parents
good character, the way will be
smoothed out for both of them. 1t
Is an unfortunate child who is
ashamed of his own parent.
The boy needs such a friend--ir
he gets in close touch with such
comradeship in his own home he is
more than fortunate.
The bow is bound to get intimate
somewhere. He will be impressed by
those with whom he consorts.
[ can commend the clipping here
copied. | could read between the
lines and understand why this great
| big business mana father himself
should feel inclined to keep this
clipping where he could read it any
time and to think of his own parent
and his own boy at the same read
! ing.
Changes in Styles of women's Dress
| When j was grown old enough to
scan the styles of women's costumes
| they had no heels to their dress-up
shoes. When full dressed they al
bonnets. A woman wearing hat, in
! the early days, would have been
rated along with DR.. Mary Walker,
who wore some sort of trousers-in
the late fifties and sixties. Scarfs
were popular. and all married wom--
wooden, were all the go for gloves.
In less than dozen years skirts
were enlarged, balloon proportions.
! am reasonably sure that eight
sewed together to make tiIo dress
skirts full enough. During the Civil
war, six widths of calico were put
! in common dress skirts. 1t took
| twelve yards to get a dress in proper
style, with scant bodies and mod
Then hoop skirts arrived; oh. they
were wonderful! During the late
years of the Civil war heels begun to
appear on ladies' shoes: I do not
heels on the back piazza steps. went
to the ground, and was laid UP for
weeks with a sprained ankle! The
heels turned under me. | remember
the trails to dresses in the '7Os. They
were elaborate, to be sure. In the
parlors, dining halls and at state
functions in Washington City in the
days of Grant. Hayes, ct al. Those
elaborate trains were caught up with
one hand. in going from carriage to
fine houses, and then turned loose to
spread themselves out, with peacock
elaboration as the owners desired.
Just look at it now in 1921!
Skirts so narrow that they look
like a one-legged pantaloon. and near
1y up to the knees, with owners
legs, above the calves, accounted in
silk stockings and shoes with rabid
high heels and pointed toes. The
fashionables push forward the feet,
and the little narrow skirt creeps up
ward, and everybody can compare
legs, from heels to knees, and then
some more, at crowded function or
reception.
The hats used to sit on the top
iof the head, to give full view of the
elaborate hair dressing.
Now the hats are crowded down
on the head, and the ears are hid in
punches of hair; and the womens
bodies are more or less barred to wind
and sun-winter and summer, cold
or hot. and fashion rules the sex:
The women will put on, or put off
clothes without the least regard to
winter or summer. They wear furs
lin August-bare bosoms in January.
AS Puck remarks: What fools
we mortals be-"