Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1915 — Housewives of Savannah Now Work in Overalls [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Housewives of Savannah Now Work in Overalls

SAVANNAH. —All the shops are buying boys’ sire overalls for housewives Savannah housekeepers have learned the discomfort and danger of sweep mg and cW"<«g windows with fiappy skirts at their ankles. Dresses gather „ . . . ■ it

dust the germs “get in the way.’ Overalls are the ideal of comfort in housekeeping. And, if they are soiled, what matter? They are easy to wash or replaced at small cost Many women are taking to the innovation, which made its first appearand in Chicago. Young women particularly are no longer willing to 'Sisk their gowns and their lives hy washing windows and hanging pictures In unwieldy skirts. And Savan-

nah women have not outgrown the - fish Inn of do*"g their own work. There are young wives in Savannah and (her Georgia who even scrub their own floors. But many of them art go# openly wearing overalls fa«uwii of dresses for their housework.