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Show CARDINAL GIBBONS AND THE ABBREVIATED SKIRT. Editor Intermountain Catholic: Dear Sir I read Cardinal G icons' restrictions on the "new women" and the abbreviated skirt, and I must say I take exceptions to the same. Many of my girl friends feel the same about it. and we propose to wear our golf skirts if we like. Yours truly, BERTHA. Salt Lake City, March 15, 1900. p. s. I don't want my name published. pub-lished. Probably when Bertha and her girl friends with the dinky skirts "and beef to the heels" (as a great writer puts it), get older and wiser and broader, they will think with His Eminence that there is nothing so modest and beautiful beau-tiful ' as . "the flowing and graceful drapery of former days that jealously shielded the modest wearer from gaze on the public street." Editor. |