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Show DECLARE HOBBLE SKIRT IS TO BLAME Three Thousand Mill Girls Out of Work Becauso Less Cloth Ib Required. Special to The Tribune. OLNEYVI 1,1,13. R. I.. June 11. Attributing At-tributing their wrongs and sorrows directly di-rectly to the popularity of tho hobble skirt, which has now a vokuc almost unparalleled, un-paralleled, nearly 3000 mill girls In this town are on the verse of starvation through the shutting down of the mills. Because the jaunty hobble requires only about half the cloth required by the ordinary ordi-nary skirt the monthly consumption of cloth, so claim the big manufacturers, haB been almost cut, in two. Many of the mills have shut down and others are running run-ning only half time. |