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Show HIGH HEELS iD THE KGBBLESKiRTS NEW YORK, Sept. 25. That high hcclB and hobble skirts arc responsible responsi-ble for a largo proportion of the injuries in-juries sustained by women while getting get-ting on or oft trains, and mounting and descending stairways in stations, fs the conclusion reached by a commission com-mission of railroad men here after an Investigation covering three months, in which seventy-three such cases wero recorded. Tho Injuries range from slight con-tusionshto con-tusionshto painful sprains and cuts. Typical of the courses set forth in 1 the reports are "heel caught on. stop I or coach and torn off;" "high heels caught while descending stairs;" ' "wore hobble skirts." |