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Show It Is said or the wife or many u henpecked hen-pecked mnn thnt sho wears the pants, breeches, trousers, ovornlls or pnnt-nloons, pnnt-nloons, as tho enso .may be, but this is n Ague of apench which limy hnvo dated Irom tho tlmo Xnntippo told Socrates where to head In, If bifurcated bifur-cated apparel dated back thnt rnr; there hnvo been henpecked men thnt ong or longer, says the Atchison Globe. Hut thnt fashion may mnko this figure of speech n fact seems probable. It is forecast by no less an authority than Paul Poiret, said to bo tho chler influencer or tho lashloiis or our period, nnd there Is some reason to believe thnt ho knows what ho la talking nbout. In ten years tho chnngo will be wrought, nnd probably will bo bo gradual thnt men will benr up brnvcly; womnn's fashions ror some tlmo have been such a revelation that thero Isn't n great deal left to rovcal. Tho skirt Is not to bo entirely eliminated within with-in tho tlmo specified, according to tho fashion forcenster, but It will extend ex-tend no further south on tho fcmlulno mop than tho knee, nnd rrom thero on tho garment will bo or unmlstnke-able unmlstnke-able trouBers legs. Whether tho prophecy pro-phecy Is right or not, tho tendency is In thnt direction, and If one tnko n period of twenty years instead or ten, It may bo assumed that Dr. Mary Walker's garb will seem conventional." |