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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1920)
Comment-and Discomment WHAT DO VOU SAY? What Bort of clothes do you think high school girls ought to wear? Are you In favor of them "spreading on the style," or do you think that the adop tion of a sort of uniform dress, simple and all that, would ba a godsend for their scholarship records and their parents bank accounts? There's something to be said each way, and The Herald wants you to write your opinion. We want to get letters from everyone con cerned. The field is open there's no limit. Write what you think. We'll print It. It's one big problem, this high cost of living, and it can't be solved by pasting up in the parlor and over your desk the governor's slogan, "Work and Save." Incidentally, It's one thing to sign a pledge to cut out the luxuries and a totally different thing to go back to wearing cotton hosiery after your tender feet have got used to the feel of shimmering silk. Don't misunderstand us, we yearn for luxuries, but we don't In dulge all our yearning.' For years our adolescent dream was to possess two pairs of silk pajamas and three suits of silk underwear. In those days the total outlay would have been less than fifty dollars, but times have changed and rising prices have anted (ante is a flincii U.m, wo be lieve) us clear out of the game. Is It possible to get used to a low ered standard of living, and like it? Now, we may realize that corned beef and cabbage are better for our liver, our complexions, our health and our pocketbooks than sirloin steaks, but will our palate agree with our reason? We may argue that woolen waists are warmer than georgette silk, or that fifty-cent neckties hide a dirty shirt front as well as the three-dollar kind, but will we ever bring ourselves to the point where we can don them with com fort and self-renpect? Certain aspects of this problem came up at the last meeting of the Alliance Woman's club, we are told, and hietory hasn't stated yet that any solution was arrived at. One plan was suggested that brought out a good bit of discussion, and at first thought it sounds sensible to a male mind. Take the matter of clothing for girls In school. Some girls have fathers a little better off than others possess. A liberal father, with a good-sized bank account, can cause more trouble In a high school than a pretty French Instructor can cause In a college. And the next day a number of other young ladles appear In their niftiest clothes, and by the third day all the others who have anything that will shine In comparison are decked out like the Queen of Dia monds. And the young lady who started the Easter parade will pro ceed to use her allowance to buy something that will again outshine theia all, and around and aroual the circle they go. Trety soon fath ers who need their money for some thing else are shelling out fives and tens to weeping daughters who "haven't a single decent thing to wear," and In some homes the baby is going without shoes because of it. What's the answer? You can shout till you're black In the face that parents who allow their young daughters to dress for rchool like they would for a dinner party are making trouble for their old age and ruining their children, but what does It do? The teachers are powerless they can't send Ma'rietta home and tell her to take off her finery and come back in a callro dress with pig tails. There'd be an Indignation meeting In the superintendent's of fice in ten minutes by the clock. It was suggested at the Woman t club meeting that a modified uni form could be adopted for high school wear. A dress could be de signed along simple lines, which would look well on almost any type (we're getting out of our depth here, but the op., who is a man of experi ence, says he thinks it can be done, so we'll forge ahead) and yet coul 1 be made at little cost. If the school board would select this standard model and bar all others, would it save parents who lack money from the back-breaking expense of help ing daughter keep up with Lizzie? This is done in some of the eastern schools, and seems to work out well. Of course, the richer girls buy more expensive materials, but it's pretty hard to make a splurge and wear clothing designed for both comfort and efficiency. You know that some soldiers' uniforms fit them like a gunnysack and other soldiers look as neat and trim as though they had been melted and poured in. It's hard to make a choppy man locked dressed up; and there are a few girls at the (Jangling age that will still look like half-grown chickens when their feathers are beginning to sprout. And this Is the way It works out. j One young fady, with plenty of spending money, wears pretty nifty I clothes. She dolls up In a georgette! crepe waist, an expensive skirt, a neat set of furs, a hat that is a dream,, and all the little accessories -except earrings we believe ear rings are barred. And when she sails up the aisle in the assembly room she creates a sensation. The boys are likely to think that she's a little bit nicer than her clothes, and the girls, no matter how they dislike her, will see the splendor of her rai ment. Didn't nature expect them to use their eyes? Trobably something ought to be done along these lines. It helps con siderably when a cash limit is set on the price for graduation dresses or where caps and gowns are made obligatory. School girls would study better with their minis on their books instead of on their backs, and tho boys would make faster prog ress with their minds on something more important for the time being than the young lady across the aisle. Dut we'd hate to be the one to come out openly and agitate.lt. It's trouble enough reforming those of one's own sex, and somehow the exposition grows when you start out to reform women, no matter how young they are. any better than navy beans as a steady diet. On sober second thought, we've decided to leave the settlement of the discussion to those who started It. It's their war. But Herald read ers, men, women and the girls in question, may want to express them selves on the subject. We'll be glad to print anything you write on It and in this particular case won't ask you to sign your names to the letters you send In. Just say what you want to and go as far as you like. If the matis will carry It, we'll print It. Write ybur opinion early and avoid the rush. First received will be printed first. What would you do If you had sworn to your dli g father that you would avenge his flayer and then find out that he was the man that mar rled jour own mother. The tragedy of this situation will he Mumii in "Heart O' tha Hills," with Mary Pick ford, to b kIiowii at the Inijie rial Theatre tonight. S8 CITY HALL HOSPITAL GOES OUT OP BUSINESS The Influents, epidemic in Alliance is about over. Two or three cases have been reported during the past week, but two of these, at least, were relapses of patients who had got out of bed too soon. The second story of the city hall, which had been fitted up as a hos pital, was turned back to the fire boys and the police Judge the first of the week. The last patient left Sat urday, and he had been alone for several days. KID TOUItlXO TARTY HUNS OUT OP FUNDS Four young people, whose ages ranged from sixeen to nineteen years, arrived In the city Monday. And when they hit town they were fiat broke, and one of their tires was flatter than their pocketbooks. The Sturgeon garage was the flrat place they struck, and the boys over there passed the hat for them. With the proceeds they had tho tire fixed at Shafer's, and within a short time bowled merrily out of town. They promised to write and report prog ress, but to date not a word has reached the Sturgeon boys. Alaska is booming as a coal pro ducer. She dug out 76,606 tons last year, or 50 per cent more than ever before, and this is felt as only a be ginning to do a cdal business. The work of mining occupied 239 men for 254 days. No five days' work a week stinting on that production. Jim SALE As I have sold my ranch 1 will sell at public Rale at my place two miles south of Antioch, six teen miles cast of Alliance and t ight miles west of Lakeside, on Monday, March IS, 1920 Commencing at 10 o'clock a. m., the following described property: ead of Good Horses I pray gelding, 5 years old, weight 1200 lbs. 1 gray gelding 3 years old 1 bay gelding, 5. years old, weight 1200 lbs. 1 bay gelding, 3 years old 1 bay gelding, 2 years old 131 Head of Cattle 131 H 19 head of milk cows 9 steers, 2 years old 14 steers, 1 year old 4 sucking calves 38 head of range cows 29 heifers, 2 years old 18 heifers, 1 year old . 1 coming C year old Registered Durham ban 4 POLAND CHINA PICJS 3 DOZEN CHICKENS Farm Machinery Two good farm wagons; two 14-inch walking plows; one 6-foot McCormick mower; one 6 foot Deering mower; two good 3-scction harrows; two John Deere cultivators; two hay rakes; one twelve-foot McCormick rake; two good hay sweeps; two good stackers; one disc; one wagon box; two corn listers; ono potato cutter; ono Chapton potato digger; barrel churn; two oil stoves; one cnok stove; one heating stove; two 8-foot, steel water tanks; two Ford touring cars, 1915 and 1918 models; two sets of work harness and sotiffe household goods. 3 or 4 Stacks of Good Prairie Hay TERMS Six months' time on bankable paper bearing 8 interest from date. All sums under $25.00 cash. FREE LUNCH AT NOON C. E. Fingal & Charlie Fleet II. P. COURSEY, Auctioneer P. W. HARRIS, Clerk Thank fortune, boys of high school age are not particularly given to primping. In the senior year they are apt on occasion to devote ' too much attention to the color of their neckwear, but the average boy waits for his sophomore year at college before he begins "fussing" in earn est. If both the boys and girls would start in open competition to outdo all others in the matter of clothes, half the homes In the country would be eating cornbread three times a day. And, though cornbread tastes good once in a while. It don't wear They're Here Woolens We want every man, young man and boy in this trade territory who is thinking, of his new Spring Suit at least to look over our new samples of Woolens. Every piece is Guaranteed All Wool. We have the biggest selection in the city. Prices range FROM $40.00 TO $90.00 AND YOUR SUIT WILL FIT YOU. YOU and YOU ALONE. 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An early selection is advisable.