Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1905 — In Fit Array. [ARTICLE]

In Fit Array.

Talk as one will on the vanity of clothes, the consciousness of being well dressed has something of moral force in it. “Brush your hair and things won’t look so bad,” was the wise counsel given by a friend to a woman whose husband had lost his money. The little child in E. J. Hardy’s “Manners Makyth Man” hit on this great truth when she replied to her mother, who was reproving her. “O Katie, why can’t you be a good little girl? See Julia, now; how nice she is. Why can’t you be as good as she?” “P’r’aps I could, mama,” answered Katie, “if my dress had little pink bows all over it.”