DRESS by Selected

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 46.

DRESS.

By Selected

CHILDREN should be sensibly and comfortably dressed. The child must have ample freedom for the exercise of its muscles, and the breathing must not be restricted. Great harm is wrought in children's dress; style is allowed to rule regardless of comfort or health.

Never allow the child to sleep in the clothing worn during the day (whether it be infant-in-arms, or the man or the woman grown). Just here allow us to say that each will be the better cared for to sleep alone; indeed, this is true morally and physically with all ages. Before passing from this subject, we have a word more; as the girls grow up, natural taste will be liable to want to follow the fashions of the surrounding society; here beware of folly. Corsets and high-heeled shoes may be in style, but are always out of place. Never permit a girl to wear a corset, and cut down the heels of the opera shoe.

Low necks, short sleeves, and tied-back fronts, revealing the exact figure of the lower limbs, with great bustles, are unbecoming in appearance, and are invitations to vulgar remarks by the coarse. Avoid all such dress.

Be careful to inculcate principle in the matter of dress in dealing with your daughters. Be kind but positive here, and never yield to the demands of fashion, the most tyrannical god (or goddess) of this world.—Selected.