Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1899 — Clothes, Etc. [ARTICLE]

Clothes, Etc.

“And clothes,” argued the missionary, further, “are as cheap as dirt!” The tropic heathen did not conceal her misgivings. “Yes, but are they are hygienic?” faltered this simple child of the forest. Her health was quite perfect now, and there was no telling what might not be the effect of corsets and skirts which do not hang from the shoulders, to say nothing of the veils with dots in them.—Detroit Journal.