Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON BEHIND WOMANS SKIRTS it rather inconsistent now that women ibave the vote that fashion should deny the more timid 0 the kotlier sex the protection which was formerly accorded them by the volu elnous dimensions of their ladles cos tunics below the waist certainly there Is nothing smaller than a man who would hide behind the skirts of a woman we have not much to say for his breadth or his depth but small as his proportions may be can you imagine how they could be crowded behind what in these days serves for milady the purpose of a skirt but think of the hoop skirt and the crinoline of other days I 1 and how it started for then a man might very comfortably have concealed himself behind a woman s skirts to adjudge this expression an index of the manhood of those days would certainly be unfair for in all ages there have been men and men but in these days of other fashions it did not require a great stretch of the am agitation agi nation to ota man who per matted a woman to shield him as hid ing behind her burts |