Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-06-17
OUR WOMEN Won1en's Clothes
and the High Cost of Being We'll
Dressed.

the cost of education which parents de
= plore, 1t is the cost of dress. 1T is al
S we can do to buy our daughters schoo
2 dresses. We a afford It," said on
mother to me. "the dresses she wear
are fine enough for a party. But TIL
r rest of the girls dress that way, and /
she doesn't, she is left out of everything.
To remedy this condition. one schoo
board suggested the wearing of a uni
form. Mothers objected. They said sucl
a plan would be more expensive. as the,
could now make over dresses for tn,
younger girls. and the discarded schoo
dresses OF their older daughters they util'
lied for their own party dresses. Tht
attempted reform of the school board. L
is needless to say, was a failure.
Where then is this much-needec
change to begin2 Manifestly with every
one of us women. We can at least show
that we are not slaves to the prevailing
mode, and Will not encourage Dur chill
dren in being so. This story is told OF
a woman in charge of delinquent girls
One girl who was being examined said
that her mother. an old country woman
called her extravaganza because she wore
silk stockings. We'll. then, why do you
do it?" asked the examiner. Why, ]
have to. Everyone does" replied the girl
and the examiner, suddenly conscious
that she herself was in league with every
one" hastily tried to cover her silk clad
legs.
Some one has suggested hat we make
Mothers Day q real national holiday for
mothers-a day on which mothers shall
have a day off. Now we send mother
gifts, read in the editorial columns OF
our daily press how remarkable mother
is, and possibly hear a sermon on the
same exhaustless theme, and we return
home with our hearts aglow with the
| Taa1fnr If hov{nu Gana n.,r urhn1o d11fu
Then we sit down to a table loaded with
eatables mother has prepared, and after
wards grant her the added privilege Of
clearing the table and washing the
dishes.
One mother writes of how she thinks
the day should be spent:
Let the whole family pitch in and
do mothers work on that day and give
her the whole day In which to do ex-
actly as she pleases. Let her stay in
bed till noon If she wants to. Give her
a chance to read that novel she has been
longing to read. Or perhaps it would
be a bigger treat to farm out the chill
to a meal she hasn't herself helped pre-
pare"
If this suggestion were followed, 1t
might revolutioni2e some households
whose members would have the oppor-
tunity of learning That mother actually
works.
On the first day OF May. according to
press reports, Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert Dot
son, Of Sidney, were to start on q 1900
mile journey Town the Yellowstone, Mis-
souri, and Mississippi to Memphis. Tenn,
where they were to act as delegates from
the Sidney Kiwanis club to the interna-
tional conference Of that organization to
open June 8.
The Dotsons expected to average 30
miles a day. including %stopovers at his
toric points. After the convention they
planned to continue their journey to
New Orleans. returning home by train
II the journey Is successfully accom-
plished Notwithstanding the floods, the
Dotsons will have an interesting tale to
relate of their travels by river and by
land.
Under the heading Girls are Better
Students at the B. H. s." we find that
of the lib students on the honor roll of
the Butte high school, 30 are girls. This
is a good showing for the Butte girls,
and led me to investigate how the sexes
compared on the Great Falls honor roll.
There were 337 students named-these
divided into three ranks. In the first
rank there were more than twice as many
girls as boys. After counting these. my
persistence failed me. 1t was enough to
know that the girls led In the first rank
From a casuel glance at the other two
ranks, 1t did not appear the boys re-
deemed their reputation there as COM
pared with the girls. 1t Is not strange
that many boys do not approve Of CO.
educational universities.
Mrs. w. w. Johnson, who is now q
patient at st. Patrick's hospital, Mis-
soula, is said as a child to have known
Lincoln, whom she knew as Uncle Abe"
and he once held her on his knee. When
the news of the presidents death reached
her father he was blowing in a field. A
boy ran to him with a paper. On read
ing 1t her father gave the horses into
the charge of his daughter, and then
burst into tears" The little girl could
not understand what caused his grief,
and asked her mother IF grandfather was
dead"
Here in Montana, the news OF Presi-
dents death made strong men weep,
while some openly rejoiced. Many years
were to pass before both factions united
in honoring his memory.
! An automobile salesman, speaking be-
fore a woman's club In Great Falls, stated
that women were the most careful driv-
erS.