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This competition was for the young ladies of the South Poreupine High School, the subject of the essay being. **Harmonious Dress for Girls."‘ Last week the results of the compeâ€" tition were announced. The prize winners were :â€" First, Betty Dowsett, Dome Mines. Second, Irene Wilson, South Porâ€" cupine. Third, Petronella Smith, South Poreupine. The judges were : Mrs. Bowles, Mrs. Orr, and Dr. Cameronâ€"Smith. The judges say they had a task deâ€" ciding the prize winners, so many of the essays being cleverly written and the subject especially well handled. This would indicate that South Porâ€" cupine â€" has considerable _ literary talent in its high school, together with a noteworthy ability for the presentaâ€" tion of a case, for the prize winning essays are outstanding examples of very able work in the line of essayâ€" writing. _ If the general run of the essays approaches the high standard set by the prize winners, then South Poreupine and the Dome are assurâ€" edly to be congratulated on their taâ€" lent. The Advance will publish the three prizeâ€"winning essays, the first prize essay being published herewith, and the other two to be printed in followâ€" ing weeks. This essay by Miss ‘Betty Dowsett would do credit to any trainâ€" ed writer. It has interest, originâ€" ality, thoughtfulness and sound literâ€" ary talent. The Home and School Association merits the thanks of all for the enâ€" couragement given to the literary talent of the High School. * (By Betty Dowsett, Dome Mines) The word, ‘‘Harmony,""‘ is defined as : ‘‘the quality of being pleasing to the ear; unison; just. adaptation of parts to one another so as to form a connected w hn]o. accord in feeling, sentiment, ete.‘ Harmonious dress <then must. be pleasing to the eye. It will show acâ€" cord ~between costume and wearer, and there will be adaptation of the parts of the. costume to make one satisfactory whole appearance. How does a girl achieve this ideal in dress? There are four chief tests which she must apply and when all these have been met she is certain of complete harmony. _ These four are :â€"appropriateness, art of dress, colour and style. We shall consider them in order. First in importance is the test of appropriateness, which applies to the age, height and complexion of the wearer, the oceasion on which the dress is worn, and the accord between the wearer‘s station in life and her dress, Girls from fourteen to seventeen years should be careful to choose simâ€" ple dresses and comfortable since they dress chiefly for school and play. It is a very common misâ€" take for girls of this age to offend against good taste by wearing what would be suitable only for a young woman of twenty. The younger girl has so much the advantage of her older sisters in the choice of bright colours and gay patterns that she should not yearn. for older styles. Her clothing â€"must be as youthful as her years, or there will be discord at the outset. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMIN®@UNTARIO To accord happily with heigly, the tall‘s girl‘s dress must not be so closeâ€"fitting as to accent her thinness, or so short as to emphasize her tallâ€" ness, nor should its pattern be in long straight lines. Plaids, or other large designs are suitable for her while the short, plump girl must forego them. How mueh food for laughter is there in an inch or two of ridiâ€" culous sometimes may be the effect of a line going around, when it should have gone up and down! These matâ€" ters of length and width are very imâ€" portant in the harmonious scheme! _ It is not so .difficult a matter for most girls to preserve harmony beâ€" tween their complexions and their raiment, for a suitable colour accents the beauty of the eyes or hair or skin so plainly that almost every girl knows which colour to choose to apâ€" pear at her best. There are a few, however, who must be told that reds and pinks do not accord with red hair, that deep shades of blue are best to bring out the beauty of lightâ€" blue eves, that soft subdued eolours When a Girl is Harmoniously Dressed. FIRST PRIZE ESSAY. tone down florid complexions, and | that sheer materials have a softening ofiect on the skin. ! An oldâ€"time poet appreciated the harmony of his lady‘s dress and said so in his little verse :â€" My love in her attire Doth show her wit It doth so well become her., For every season She hath dresses fit, For Winter, Spring and Summer. His lady must have had a nice sense of fitting the dress to the occaâ€" sion to call forth such admiration. Every girl would do well to imitate her wit, for a costume might have all the ~requirements we have already mentioned and still be completely out of harmony if it did not fit the occaâ€" sion. Play dresses must be designed for play, â€"â€"comfortable, simple, washâ€" able. School dresses mhould also be simple, never elaborately trimmed and always of material easily eleaned. It is the party dress that may be as gay and as bright as a girl chooses. Delicate fabnc* vivid colours, ornaâ€" ment and decoration are all in harâ€" mony with the party spirit. Now the question arises. * How can every girl afford to dress in accord with every oceasion.‘‘ Perhaps, she can not afford it. It would be very much out of aceord for a girl to try to appear other that what she really is. If she obeys . the law of good taste as far as she can, within her mean§, she need not be disturbed. To be simple, to give attention to detail, is the law of dress, as it is of all art. Since the simple and the arâ€" tificial do not harmonize, a girl must never appear artificial, regardless of what common custom demands. She should avoid everything that is strikâ€" ing in effect. The fewer her ornaâ€" ments the better. The fewer aids to complexion she uses the better. There has never been such an aid used yet which deceived any observer er produced a truly beautiful effect. Far better for every girl to study othér ways of emphasizing her good points rather than to resort to artiâ€" fiee to cover her blemishes. If she will only work as hard to arid nature to make a pleasing effect as she often does to disguise or mutilate nature, something worth whilée could be acâ€" complished. _ Fastidious cleanliness of the body, inside and out, is the real beauty producer. Nature herself does a great deal for youth to make it pleasing to the eye. It is a great pity that iso often her harmonious effects are spoiled by abuses of her gifts. As simplicity is the keynote ‘of harmonious dress, attention to detail is the master touch that makes the perfect accord. Sometimes it is the easiest thing in the world to secure a beautiful effect. _ Where there is the samenesss of colour in dress, shoes, contrast to bring out their good points: warm and brilliant colours for the dark; deep and strong for the light. The brownâ€"eyed gir‘ may safely choose golden browns, reds and wanum yellows, or variations of these colours. _ The blueâ€"eyed girl should choose the blues, greens, grays rr purples. ‘One is not always guided in one‘s choice by complexion alone; the seasons influence us considerably. Those colours that are cold and faimt seem‘ most suitable in the warm seaâ€" =sons, and those that are warm and intense are a mMeasing contrast to the gloom of winter. iBut whatever the choice be, that eolour should be o ces m ieb sn mm «mm s c mt uon inss nc in un n a beautiful effect. _ Where there is the samenesss of colour in dress, shoes, gloves and hat, a ribbon as a belt er a string of beads or a pin of vivid contrasting colour, or a small decorvaâ€" tion on the dress itself will turn an uninteresting costume into a thing of beauty. Then, one must‘be careful of sizes and shapes of ‘hats and boots. The small face must never be overâ€"burâ€" dened with the wide brimmed hat. The tooâ€"tall girl should never choose a high crowned, and as a rule the brim for her should have considerable width. The girl with the long slenâ€" der foot should avoid pointed shoes and lightcoloured fabrics that would have the effect of Ifncreasing their size. She should choose ‘her gloves with the same care. If she carries a bag it should be a part of her co‘!â€" our cheme, or contrast pleasingly with it. So should any other acceâ€" ssory of her costume. Colour is, of course, the dominating influence of dress. _ {[It requlires, therefore, the closest study, but does not always receive it. How*often do we see fairâ€"headed, colourless people wearing neutral colours that make them appear faded, and how manry darkâ€"eyed, darkâ€"skinned people show fortunate irk brown st "‘ Lo B eaning toward black Complexions require ng out their good nd brilliant eolour: een» and strong for n the warm seaâ€" t are warm and sing contrast to .. But whatever eolour should be It might seem that a great deal of time is missspent in the consideraâ€" tion of mere coverings for our bhodies. But it can be proved that one‘s mind may be acutely affected by tne hoarmo-ny or lack of it, in one‘s dres It it is impontant enough to mfluen.oe the mind, then it déserves due conâ€" sideration. The fact that we all ofâ€" ten have ‘harrowing dneams in which we find ourslexes with a gard most unharmonious _ with ourâ€" surroundâ€" ings and wake in a perturbed state of mind is one. instance of this strange â€" dependence of the mind. Then, who ‘has not seen a girl fail in recitation in the elass room beâ€" cause she was so conscious of all eyes being focussed on something peâ€" culiar jin. ‘her dress? How â€" many children suffer real distress in the knowledge that they do not make fit playmates because their clothing conâ€" demns them. the other hand, we know ‘how confident we always feel when we see we have made a favâ€" ourable impression by our good apâ€" pearance. As Stephen Leacock, of MeQGill University, writes in ‘‘Literâ€" ary Lapses‘‘:â€" ‘‘On the one hand we remark the bold searriage and mental vigour of a man attired in a new suit of elothes; on the other hand we mnote the melancholy feaâ€" ! tures of him who is conscious of. a postermr patch, or the haunted face of one suffering from intennal loss of buttons.‘‘ There are stores of peoâ€" ple of genius in the theatrical world who strumrled long forn recognition, because their rags of poverty repellâ€" ed the great managers to whom they applied. The old adage, ‘*T he clothes make the man,""‘ had its orrâ€" gin in numberless cases like those. Since dness is so powerful for the. success or failure of people, it is very worthy of the. considerable time spent in the study of it. It is not to be assumed, however, that every girl is obliged to make a special stud\ of the ant of harmomous dressing. _ Many bave made such : study, and are giving the resu‘ts 0* their work to the world constantly, through the fashion publications. Every girl is prohtmn' by the knowâ€" ledge and experjence @all the time, unconsciously at first, and, perhaps, consciously, as she grows older. But she is gaining her knowledge as well anvy spectal time‘ to Sne 4s _ OE t o un e 4 Without giving any special time to it. All the lessons of one kind and another that a young girl learns, she may apply to ‘dress as she app.'o them to other needs and experiences in her life. So, then whatever she learns that teaches her to observe and compare will teach her ‘how to Every lesson she learns in sei001 Aanla at home about herself as 2 a social creature is helping to teac‘h her the harmony between a costume and the occasion on which it is worn. Her lessons on the art of drawing in school teach her the laws that conâ€" trol colour combinations and give her an appueciation of the value i acimeve _ approj The lessons 1 learns from h« hey that there dress onlyvy whe at10n T are wWill L appropriat ropriateness in . dress. in honesty that she her parents will teach re is true harmony in vhen it is befitting the means of the wearer. she learns in school and be: simplicity that should ailways inâ€" fluence both her manner and her dress. As her intellect and character are developing all her training she is gaining a power of judgment that will select what is harmomous for her particular self in current fasâ€" hions and will give to her dress that valuable feature of style. It is plain then, that while harmony in dross is well worth consideration and study, it need not require that a ginl should spend undug time on it; or that it should inspire in her a frivolous vanâ€" ity. All the principles that control her ordinary conduct may be applied to this, as to any other need of her daily life. taste in dress is as much a matter of education as good taste in the choice of one‘s companâ€" ions, on one‘s pictures, or one‘s From awll the foregoing we ma) conclude that a girl is harmoniously dressed when her costume is entirely appropriate when it is simple, when its colounr is in accord with her own, when its style is an expression of herself rather than a mere imitation of fashion, and when she has achievâ€" ed this perfection t‘hmuo'h no qavmfivv to vamty. rons, on one‘s books. A laugh is worth one hundred groans in any market. Lancashire Club â€" Timmins All Laneastrians weleome and their Friends are invited. Meets every first and second Satâ€" urday in Each Month. H. UNSWORTH, F. Y. UTTLBY, Secretary. _ President. SAeAeneneonenenienienenened.â€"" % Bread Cakes g,ea Pastry 4; The Best of Milk % % used in all our Breads %’? BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. 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