Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1915 — The Value of Good Clothes. [ARTICLE]

The Value of Good Clothes.

Eccentricity is not to be desired either in dress or manners. It is only another name for vanity. Still, there is something to be said for those of us whose circumstances often require us to wear garments not cut after the prevailing mode. Good clothes, however, made In any fashion except the "latest extreme,” have a marked effect upon tke mental condition of the wearer. Even Emerson deigned to discuss the moral effect suitable clothes had upon certain temperaments. He Bays: ‘lf a man (or woman) have not firmness and have keen sensibilities, it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress irreproachably. Ope can then dismiss all care from the mind, and may easily find that performance an addition of confidence, a fortification that turns the scale in social encounters.” Tou have all heafd the experience of the woman Who declared that the sense of being well dressed gave her a feeling of inward peace which religion was powerless to bestow.—Suburban Life.