Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1911 — Age of Simplicity. [ARTICLE]

Age of Simplicity.

This Is a period of studied simplicity in dVess which does not imply that dress is any the lees costly merely that we see no beauty In elaboration or superfluity, and display of pretty tendency to wear wreathe of wild flowers on our hath Instead of plumes and rosea. Incidentally, no more striking proof can be furnished of an artificial age than a love of simplicity. In Charles ll.’s 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 Roman nobility believed In a return to the primitive life, while Indulging in the greatest luxury. The people who are really poor cherish no happy Illusions about plain attire and plainer far*. To them they are merely accompaniments of a poverty of which they ar* ashamed, since they cannot help it