Judge — April 21, 1917 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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(UM direct to Judge in recognition of the fact that its open door policy plus its hundred thousand or more circulation made it the medium par excellence when glad tidings were to be communicated from the suffragists state to the suffragists of all states. Legs for Women HERE is nothing that society has been so loath to face as the fact that women have legs. Even to mention them has been for the modest soul to blush. He, or she, has been wont to haltingly substitute the ague appellation “limb,” leaving it to the hearer to infer whether it was a woman or a tree that formed the subject of conversation. Doughty Amelia Bloomer made a valiant protest and died leaving her name to a bifurcated garment that nobody would wear. Rainy-Day clubs of women protested against dragging wet and dirty skirts through the mud merely because society would not face the fact that women had legs. But it was not the rainy-day clubs or the sanitary appeal that brought the short walk- ing skirt—it was the bicycle. The god of progress always lurks in the machine. And what the bicycle began the munition factory is completing. And fashion as the handmaiden of pre- paredness has come to the rescue of waddling womanhood with the slit and the split and the short—oh, so short!—skirt. Pious souls turn their shocked eyes aw but in the face of the cnemy no one stops to ask if anything is in accord with the customs of our ancestors. A custom that hampers efiiciency gets kicked out of the way. So it comes that the real picking for women this spring has been the winning of the right to legs even more than the right to vote. The same paper that printed the wonderful winning of woman suffrage in Ontario contained an even more epoch- making statement to the effect that 1100 women in one St. Louis factory appeared on that day for the first time in overalls; that they were overjoyed at the freedom and the pockets; and that, from that time on, the making of overalls for women would be recognized as a legitimate part of the cloth- ing industry,—in short, society would no longer blink the fact that women have legs. Facts Versus Theory WARDEN of a certain penitentiary scanned the thousand or more in- and noted a few straggling women. Speaking at many uplift mectings he also scanned his audiences and noted how few and straggling were the men. 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