Has 'modem life! with its mania for mating ovcrything easy and intelligible, created the modern mindj or has tho modern mind forced modern life to supply its demands?-. Prob-. ably wo are not more stupid than we used to be, but it is certain that we are lazier.— "Lady." There arc some kinds of so-called extravagance which are really quito defensible. When a woman buys oxpensive "gowns, she thereby encourages hand-made industries, careful work, artistic effects. She keeps the spirit of sartorial beauty alive, the machinery of. trade in . motion, and diminishes the. ranks of the un- ' employed—"Gentlewoman."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 191, 7 May 1908, Page 8
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