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Show MftS. STANTON INBXOHADLB. TskM l'aiHIon Atalalt I'otkalltu Vim kid Trailing Ski, I. Mrs. Elisabeth Cady Stanton not only cries out against a pocketless w man, who goes through the strecb carrying her pockelbook in her hand, but sho has another pet aterslon tit up-to-date modish skirt. "How cai you expect men to give women the sul frago when they are not fit for 111" she exclaimed tho other day, ''In obi thing alone women prove themselva totally unprepared for suffrage, anl that Is this present fashion of tralllai skirts. These long skirts go tralllnj through all tho dust and filth of tht etreets. The woman sweeps alonf and gathers up enough dust and microbes mi-crobes to kill herself and her family What right has a woman to come Into my home dragging from one-half to s yard of microbe-Infected cloth behlnl her! I say It Is not only an Insult, but an Injustlco to me And this vllo fssb. Ion would bo bad enough If It wen confined to women of wealth and extravagance, ex-travagance, but It la made worse b; being taken up by the women who have to work for their living Mr manlcuro came to me the other day, and lo! she had a aklrt trailing tht ground all around. After sho bad finished, fin-ished, I said to her 'Do not ever come to me again In a trained aklrt. If yoa can not come to me In a skirt dscontly short, I do not need your servlcts,' Tho very next day my drciimakir comes In, and sure enough there was her skirt trailing on tho ground After sho had tried my gown on I told her 'Never let mo see you In a trained skirt again. If you can not wear a short one, then I will find a dressmaker dressmak-er who will.' In fact, I have made up my mind to Instruct the elevator boy to allow no woman to my apartment who Is wearing a long trained skirt" |