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GANOUNG'S PHARMACY.
1400 O STREET.
Successor to IX O. Hanna.
First Pub., Aufr, 313
Notice ot Petition.
Estate No. 1586 of John J. Glllilan. deceased.
In county court of Lancaster county, Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska, to all person? In
terested In said estate, take notice, that a
petition has been filed for the appointment of
feusie H. Glllilan as administratrix of said es
tate, which has been set for hearins herein, on
September 19, 1901, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
Dated August 28, 1901.
SEAL. FltANK R.WATEKS,
County Jude.
By alter A. Leese, Clerk County Court
FA8HI0N LETTER.
( From the Sunday Papers. )
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It has been said and said with a
strong suggestion of satire that the
human individual is composed of three
parts, soul, body and clothes. Whether
or not this kind of pluralism is satisfac
tory to the philosopher, it is at all erents
a very convenient mode of analysis. It
emphasizes what the dualist and the
monist both neglect the importance to
man of his clothes. If one stops to con
sider the offices of clothing, one is aston
ished to find what a small part utility
plays in its making and how multiform
are the social functions which it fulfills.
The present spirited discussion of the
shirt waist for men is a case in point.
Even the most urgent claims of utility
and comfort must wait upon the pleas
ure of custom and tradition. Try to
imagine what clothing would be today
if it were not fashioned by social custom
and usage. It would be altered only to
suit the weather or the employment of
the individual.
Whatever primitive man thought ot
clothing, whether he bothered his head
over it much or little, we have to confess
that homo sapiens at his highest level
of development spends much of his time
worrying over the adornment of his
body.
It is a somewhat ugly truth that our
souls and our bodies show pretty nearly
what we are, while our clothes declare
what we should like to be. If the flesh
is pink and the limb is round, if the spir
it is pure and the conscience clear, we
don't mind a bit going on parade. Tnere
is a delicious satisfaction in letting
others mark our good points. But when
soul and body shrink and fade and lose
their graces we hasten to retire. Or
rather we should hasten to retire if it
were not for the blessing of clothes.
Clothing is surely a gift of the gods. It
gives back the color and the plumpness,
it add to or subtracts from the stature,
as the case requires; it draws attention
from ugly features, and, best of all, it
furnishes a certificate of social or even
intellectual success. It is a recommend
of good character and a passport to the
"best society " It gives Cinderella the
air of a princess and makes (with an ap
propriate change of diet) a gentleman of
the prodigal son. There is without
doubt some subtle magic about clothes.
There is, first of all, a peculiar prestige
which belongs to certain patterns in
dress; a prestige which rests upon no
less an authority than the authority cf
society itself. Almost every walk in life,
as well as every grade of social position,
has a distinctive dress. There is nearly
always something about the attire of an
individual that indicates rank or em
ployment. The blacksmith has bis
apron, the baker his cap, the day laborer
his coarse and simple blouse, the post
man, the soldier, the sailor each has his
uniform, the king his robes and crown,
the hero his laurel wreath or his medals,
the clergyman, the judge, the scholar,
his gown, the chief his special headdress
and his gaudy war paint, and the loafer
his bared head and upturned sleeves.
The great division of the world's labor
and the world's play has called for
varied and elaborate insigna. It has
become necessary to brand men in order
that their functions in the gigantic so
cial mechanism may be known at a
glance. As a result countless associa
tions have clustered about every form
of dress. One feels, almost instinctively,
a respect for the justice's gown or the
clergyman's surplice, and even the most
pronounced democrat among us experi
ences a little shiver of awe before the
trappings of royalty. It coulJ not be
otherwise. So truly are we the off
spring of society that we cannot but
clothe the symbols of its various offices
with our emotions and sentiments.
Thus it is that clothing stands be
tween us and the world. Not only is it
a material protection; it is also a notice
to society that the wearer is a member
of one of her great guilds and is entitled
to the privileges and honors which cus
tom and traditions have established.
Even the fraternity of tramps has been
known to receive vagrant brothers from
other orders under the guise of "hobo"
apparel. It is not an unheard of thing
for a respectable citizen to tour a coun
try in the guise of a tramp, depending
chiefly upon his borrowed clothing for a
welcome among vagabonds.
One sees very little black without its
touch of color, just as one sees little
color without its touch of black. So,
with a very pretty gown, which was
for traveling, yachting or the street,
there was a boa of silk and velvet, chif
fon and chenille, all in emerald green,
while the hat, which was a Gainsbor
ough, was in emerald green velvet,
trimmed in white feathers.
All things, this autumn, demand
Blenderness, and to attain it is our great
est ambition. In reducing, one must
guard against leanness, scrawninesa or
lankness, and must aim at just the
right quantity of flesh. One must be
lean that is the word but not lanky.
Svelt, they call it, when one has attained
just the right proportions for one's
height, and where one's height is fairly
good.
So great is the rage for getting thin
that starvation lunches are given at
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