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Show INDECENCY OF DRESS. A correspondent defends the Indec-encFes Indec-encFes of the hobble, sheath and trousers trou-sers skirts by saying that masculine fashions were considered formerly quite as indelicate. "Men and women are different," said the pious old deacon, dea-con, "and I thank God for the difference!" differ-ence!" But the sexless women shall have a square deal, and here is the letter: During the reign of Henry VIII, I whom you always see pictured with 1 a, short- skirt to the knees, which was the accepted form of dress for men, a few daring masculines began to appear ap-pear publicly in a divided garment, minus the skirt, and the whole English nation rose in its wrath and pronounced pronoun-ced them "immodest, Indecent, indelicate, indeli-cate, Insane." Laws wore passed prohibiting pro-hibiting men from appearing in public in such scandalous fashion, the pulpit thundered against the indecent innovation, inno-vation, the press hurled its choicest epithets at them, and the style was described as "This feminine abomination abomina-tion from Persia." Oh, yes; I forgot for-got to mention that it was also said that the man who had so little regard for' decency as to parade in the aforesaid afore-said indecent clothes were "not fit to be entrusted with the responsibilities of state." Thus does history repeat I itself' |