Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-07

character by detailed study of his
appearance. $3.50.
WYE are told that we mustn't
W. judge people by appearances,
and that the brain of a ge-
MUS may be covered by q shabby
hat, and the heart of knight beat
under a ragged coat, and so on.
All of which is doubtless true, But,
when all is said, peoples clothes are
an index to their characters and fur
nish you with mighty accurate
yard stick, by which to measure them.
Personally, I have never known an
individual who was neat and tidy
about his dress who didn't have an
orderly mind. Nor have 1 ever
known a man or woman who was
sloppy and untidy in person who
wasn't full Of vague, sloppy ideas.
Nor have 1 ever known any one who
dressed unsuitably and in bad taste
who had good judgment, or any
hard, horse sense.
If were g man conteplating mat
rimony I would give the once over
very carefully. to the way a girl
dressed before I popped the question
to her.
If she dressed beyond her means,
like daily hint from Paris, would
know that she was one of those WON
en- whose brains are cut on the bias,
and shirred in the middle, and who
have no thought or idea or aspiration
that, does not center in clothes. Be-
cause only by making a religion OF
dress can you obtain perfection in it..
So unless I were in the cloak and
suit trade or the millinery business /
should argue that I would not find
her a very congenial life companion.
If she dressed belond her means.
should know that she was extrava-
CANT. Also that she was heartless,
because she shows that she lacks
pity and sympathy in being willing
| to run her old father in debt to pay
for her gewgaws, and I should hest
tate to assume her shopping ticket.
If girl wore soiled flnery, if her
chiffon looked as if she hung it up
on the floor when she took 1t off,
should know that she would make
one of the housekeepers where every
thing is at skies and sevens, where
tn tablecloth is always spotted and
the beds half made and you can
write your name on the dust on the
furniture; and that she would be
the kind Of woman that lies on
couch and reads the last sixth best
seller, and runs off after every new
| fad that comes along.
If her clothing always needed
| pressing and her shoes polishing
and her beads were coming off, I'd
know she was lazy and shiftless, and
that she would feed her family out
of paper bags, and always be behind
time, and that she would never know
| where her money went because she
was too shiftless ever to take any
| trouble about anything.
And if she always bought the
| wrong things, if she always had
dress that emphasized the faults of
her figure, and wore clothes that
swore at her complexion and. the
color of her hair, and hats that
looked as if her worst enemy had
bought them for her, I'd know she
had absolutely no sense of values,
no discrimination no judgment, no
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woman who always does the wrong
thing in any emergency, and who
can never open her mouth without
putting her foot in it, as an Irish
man might say.
| But If q girl were always neat
and tidy; Il she were appropriately
dressed for every occasion; If she
were dressed suitably to her rank
and station. and, particularly. If the
heels of her shoes were always
1 straight and square, I'd know that
she was girl of intelligence, with
a sense of the eternal fitness Of
things, a girl with tcat and discre-
ton, and that she would make the
kind of a wife that is helpmeet
instead of hindrance.f
And if I were girl contemplating
matrimony, 1 should give a mans
appearance a very through consid-
Grafton before tied up with him
for life.
If he was slouchy and sloven1y,
/ with a. too casual acquaintance with
a safety razon. should say mo" not
only because an untidy man is dis
| gushing u d ISAaAOO "OL44oh' 0OL OO-
cause the kind of man who looks
like q tramp eventually drifts into
the tramp class.
The man who hasn't enough per.
sonal pride to keep himself clean
never succeeds in life.
If a man wears his hair too long
and his coat sleeves and trousers
too short and buys shoddy materials
when he can afford good. should
say mo- because his clothes show
that he lacks Judgment and he will
never get along in the world.
If a man wears clothes that are
out of fashion: If he wears a year
before last shape of hat: if he wears
a ar-before-last shape Of hat; if he
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