Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — PUT NOVELTY BEFORE BEAUTY [ARTICLE]

PUT NOVELTY BEFORE BEAUTY

Accusation That Has Been Made, With Seme Reason, Against the Modern Fashion. An African girl who wears an iron bracelet wilf. according to one traveler; refuse a gold one except as a curiosity to b»- hidden. The more barbarous the people the' greater the tenacity with which the average among them adhere to the- riiina that i< “done,” so that dvilii: tion hasn't invented codes of dres«. i n fact, dress forms have a more strict fcinguage and meaning in th: Boa islands than they have in a Chicago *>.r Boston drawing loom. Cues® bigotry is greatest where fashions change the least —perhaps because change has not come to unsettle prejudice and keep the imagination free. Quite the opposite effect appears fashionable women. Too often they lose their loyalty to a beautiful eff- -e just as soon as it has fully hapl»ne«l. Tte-y are accused, in fact, of preferring novelty to beauty, even the beauty that hanuohlzes with tlieir own personality.