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Show But Now the Brazen Leg Has Issued From Its Home and Won the Vote By CHARLES S. BROOKS, in Yale Review. And there were stepping-stones upon our street, so that a lady might mount to her victoria without exposure of a prudish limb. Mincing steps of stone for the clock upon her stocki.u: was not, as now, a public dial, "here are those ladies who took the air with colored parasols tipped across their shoulders to guard their pink complexions from a freckle? . . . When old, they wore a rap of lace and congress gaiters ith cloth elastic sides. And Time in softer wrinkles wrote its record on their face without concealment. . . Those were the davs, as an older novelist would say, when a blush Untied a lady's cheek." Her limbs moved then in the secret twilight of a petticoatonce the svmbol of the sex but now the brazen leg has issued ' 'rom its home and won the vote. And, with the passing of the limb, these "tepping-stones are gone. The snows of yesteryear! Frost and summer oon, dalTodils and petticoat, have yielded to the changing season. |