Judge — November 30, 1912 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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E Women's Fashions. OSSIBLY the statement is true that there is in Columbus, O., a woman who, after having been blind for years, had her sight restored and signalized that happy event by as- serting that with their present gowns women are making frights of themselves. The story sounds apocryphal. Whether it be true or not, it is true that from the beginning of the earliest chronicles up to the hour of going to press every change in the fashion of women’s apparel has been received with derision and denounced as frightful or immodest or some- thing else. But new fashions follow in quick succession. Denunciation does not dismay those who provide them. The fact is that denunciation of a new fashion dies out, and by the time another change is due it usually gives way to praise. Centuries ago observant men were asserting that fashions in woman’s garments were tending toward” modesty. Every new fash- ion introduzed since then R so or not, it is certain that fash- ions will continue to come and go, and that the fashion of to-day which is now condemned will be considered when it wanes as having been just right, while that which supersedes it will invoke anathemas. Novelty wears away. Brief Decisions. The thoughts put into sermons sometimes suggest the pay of the preachers. There are other avocations than fishing that make man and truth strangers. The faults of plain women are less frequently criticised than those of pretty women, Some very wise women paint and powder, but not even the wise can improve upon nature. A man who remains ill-tempered when the weather is fine and those about him are gracious needs a doctor. s) Staggering Figures. Save the birds! This warning comes from the committee on wild life protection of the Fourth National Conservation Congress, and is sec- onded by various Zoological Societies. The slaughter of useful birds may seem an insignificant matter to most persons, but it is a menace to the nation. It means a great increase in the armies of destructive insects, a great decrease in argicultural pro- ducts, and a great loss to consumers and to farmers. The United States Department of Agriculture says the annual loss in cereals, hay, cotton, tobacco, truck crops, sugars, fruits, farm forests and miscellaneous crops in this coun- try from destructive insects — of which birds are natural enemies and destroyers—is $420,100,000. The public is sound asleep on this question. It should awaken. Every ef- fort to assist bird life should be en- couraged. There is enough of the primitive instinct left in the ordinary boy to impulse him to rob has had like criticism. Ob- viously the earlier critics were mistaken, If they were not, the limit of im- modesty would have been reached long ago. The fact that some new fashions have been startling may have given strength to the stock criticism. Whether that be nests of birds whenever the chance offers, but it is the duty of parents to teach chil- dren the serious conse- quences of such robbery and to further every means for bird preservation. It is a matter that relates to the market basket, the dinner pail and the cost of living. comicbooks.com