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Show Gowns and (lie Lnw, The women in America who are per-mltted per-mltted to wear frocks with trains a3 long as they llko will be astonished to learn that in Germany a trailing gown Is tabooed. An American lady -was uc-costed uc-costed in one of the parks in a German city by a policeman, who bade her hold up her gown, inasmuch as the trailing damaged the gravel and also, he added, IH did the gown no good. Sho demurred, pointing out that, in her opinion, the damage to the gown was of little conao- ( quence. At once the policeman pro-' duced a formidable looking book In which in equally formidable German It I was stated that to let a dress drag on the pathway was an offense against th IH law. |