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Show "I Prefer It Because It Adds to the Amount of Visible Beauty" By HENRY HOLT, in "Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor." I consider the shortening of skirts one of the very most important improvements of' my time. It marks an intellectual advance as well as a physical one. . . . Next to prohibition and the abandonment of hell-fire hell-fire and a lot of other stuff that people no longer believe although every Sunday they say they do the most radical change in my time has beeD in relation to this feminine form divine. Of course I like the present usage better than the one of my youth, when a woman in bathing wore bloomers and a loose blouse with a skirt to her knees, and generally a poke bonnet to protect her complexion, and looked worse than the devil. I prefer it not only because it adds to the amount of visible beauty in the world and shows more respect for the fitness fit-ness of things in dress, and for nature generally, but also because it givei the man the chance that the woman has long monopolized pf knowing what sort of mate the matrimonial question concerns. |
