A TILT AT FASHION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 424, 15 November 1930, Page 16 (Supplement)

A TILT AT FASHION

“What earthly difference can it make to our civilisation (some may ask) that women should wear one thing or the other so long as they are decently clothed? What inherent nobility was there in silkworm or seal that you should regret them? None, perhaps. Yet the easy use of substitutes, whether for clothing or food, or entertainment. has vicious results, both morally and practically,” writes Katherine Gerould in Harper’s Monthly.

“It is a matter of practical fact that the substitute is usually impermanent; it does not wear. With our modern fickleness, we do not so much mind this, sine’e our possessions are to us ‘temporary conveiricnces rather than continuing treasures.

“No one now wants to keep a silk dress, a fur coat, a wooden bedstead, a motor-car. very long. Therefore, wo do not ask of them the power to endure. unfrayed, unfaded, unbroken. A thing good in itself compels a certain loyalty, educates us, indeed, as wc possess it. “But nothing, I had nearly said, can be both fashionable and beautiful, or •good,’ for ‘fashionable’ connotes the immediate decay of value.

“‘Fashion’ itself is a synonym of impermanence. Fashion obsesses us all: yet I believe we might have more opportunity of learning loyalty to a givvi object if objects were more generally worth staying loyal to. You cannot be loyal to a substitute, an imitation.

“The art of cooking, the art of dress, I shall be told —the decent salad dressing and the feel of ailk —are not very important. I think, on the contrary they are. ‘Hold fast that which is good’ is not simply the utterance of a prophet; it is a counsel derived from hard-won collective experience. In most fields permanence is a positive element in beauty. The thing that would not last was usually the ugly makeshift. The house, the furniture, the linen and the damask, the ballad, the tale, the painting, the sculpture that were good were so well wrought that they endured. The flimsy and the ephemeral seldom add to beauty. ” THE SUItE SIGN A dull, persistent pain In the back, an ache that spoils sleep and is worse in the morning, a sharp, cutting pain when bending, is a sure sign of kidney disease. It is not really the back aching, but the kidneys, which lie just beneath the small of the back. Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills quickly relieve the kidneys and help them to drive out of the body the poisons which cause backache, urinarv disorders, rheumatism, gravel, stone. The sase ere given proves that cures are thorough: Mrs B. Smythe, 7 Church Place, Wanganui, says: “I took Dope’s Backache Kidney Pills for backache and distressing giddiness, and this *emedy cured me. If 1 stooped down and then stood up suddenly the blood rush to my head, and I used to feel as if I must fall. Beside this I had ** dull pain in the small of my back, and mv general health was far from good. One day I heard that Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills had cured a case similar to mine, so I sent for a bottle. Since taking them I have been right in every respect and I have no fear of my troubles returning. Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills are excePcnt for the kidneys.’’ Many years later, Mrs Smythe says: I ‘l am still a great believer in Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills and would not like to be without them. I cake a few doses from *ime to time and they keep me free from backache and kidney trouble.”

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