San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-09
CLOTHES DON 7
MAKE WQNE: N
JUDGE SAYS
Thoughts, Not Dress, Most
Important, Author
Claims.

CHICAGO, Aug. S.-Clothes, says
Judge William NJ. Gcmnill, are the
most absorbing topic of conversation
today, the great question seeming to
'Nbe, when does beauty cease to be
artistic and become indecent? He's
going to write on the subject in his
new book.
IT'S not new problem" says
the Judge. when Lycurjus wanted
to encourage marriage he decreed that
before marriage womcns skirts might
hang in strips, allowing an attractive
display of the limbs. After marriage,
he said, the strips must be sewed to-
gether, making the skirt one piece.
- ION AGAIN, OFF; AGAIN."
Among the thoughts that will drip
from the judges pen one probably
will find these observations, which
he discussed in an interview:
. THE most immoral person is the
= one who thinks himself moral be-
= cause of the cut of his clothes. The
difference between skirt cut three
inches and one cut twelve inches
from the floor is not a difference
: of life and death, although there
. are many who profess to think so.
when Adam and Eve first wan
Z dered in the garden they were naked
, and unashamed, but after they had
eaten few, apples they covered
themselves with green fig leaf
aprons. For hundred years, the
Puritan women of New England
wore green aprons in order to look
like Eve, We know as little about
correct styles today as Adam did.
In one age women put on clothes TO
make themselves beautiful, and in
3 the next they take them off, for the
same reason.
= There are those among us who
think we should revive this Ancient
Order of Peek-a-boos. They say the
devil is abroad again with low
necked dresses and abbreviated
skirts, that modesty is in eclipse, and
o. only an earthquake can save us from
the abyss. Those who would so easily
give up the ghost should take cour-
age, for 200 years ago our ancestors
we're losing sleep over the same prob
lens.
4 Some things may be said against
! ,thO short skirt. but more can be SAID
for II. After enduring the deformi-
ties of the hustle and the long sweep
ing and the hob3ied skirts, it is a
relief to see dress that is both
comfortable and becoming. 1t is what
person thinks, not what he wears,
that determines what he is"
CLOTHES WRECK HOMES.
Judge Gemmill says thousands Of
persons go to court over an argu-
mcnt about nothing more serious
than what to wear. He tells this
story:
The stay at home woman who
loses a husband to an affinity is one
of our greatest problems. The other
day / told n womun who came to me
that she should not complain IL her
husband took another woman out in
his car If she wouldn't go. She re-
piled that after he came home and
had supper she had the children to
care for and didn't have time to
dress.
IT told that woman to buy herself
long coat, a pretty hat and a veil.
i told her to slip the coat over her
housedress, put on smart hat, and
60 motoring with her husband.
Her. answer was that her hair
wasn't 'combed fancy
Il told her TO buy curls or a trans
formation-I think that's what they
call them-and pin or sew them into
her hat.
THE husband said he would take
her, that he wanted her to 90, and
they haven't come back. guess it
worked.
"One man came in thoroughly dis
satisfied with his wife, He got her,
he said, by advertising. But she
doesn't come up to specifications he
told me.
"'She was advertised as stylish,
and of good name, Christian character
and high moral standing and deport-
ment. But she didn't have 'em.'