Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1911 — Age of Simplicity. [ARTICLE]

Age of Simplicity.

This is a period of. studied simplicity in dress which does not imply that dress Is any the less costly merely that we see no beauty in elaboration or superfluity, and display of pretty tendency to wear wreaths of wild flowers on our hats instead of plumes and rosea. Incidentally, no more striking proof ean be furnished of an artificial age than a love of simplicity. In Charles H.’s day, the fair ladies posed aa shepherdesses, and tried to be the heroines of the pastorals, though never, taken as a whole, was society less near to nature. The Boman noblllty believed in a return to the primitive life, while Indulging to the greatest luxury. The people who are really poor cherish no happy illusions about plain attire and plainer fare. To them they are merely accompaniments of a poverty of which they are ashamed since they cannot help It