Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 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 leas costly merely that we see no beauty in elaboration or superfluity, and display of pretty tendency to wear wreaths of wild fiowera on our hats Instead of plumes and roses. Incidentally, no more striking proof can be furnished of an artificial age than a love of simplicity. In Charlee If.'* day, the fair ladles posed as shepherdesses, and tried to be the heroines of the pastorals, though never, taken as a whole, was society less near to nature. The Ifloman nobility believed in a return-to the primitive life, while Indulging In the greatest luxury. Tbs people who are really poor cherlqb no happy Illusions about plain attire and plainer fare. To them they are merely accompaniments of a povprty of which they are ashamed since-they cannot help it.