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Show uu HOBBLE SKIRT ANCIENT STYLE Philadelphia, Nov. 25. The hobble skirt is more than 5,000 years old, according ac-cording to Dr. Edith Hall, who has chargo of tho excavations In Crote for the University of Pennsylvania, and Is here to deliver a courae of lectures. lec-tures. In her opening lecture Dr. Hall declared that the excavations so far mado show that the woman of those days, 3,000 years before Christ, wore hobble skirts, tight corsets and mannish man-nish collars. "Excavations on the island," said Dr Hall, "will be materially assisted by tho Balkan war; under the Turkish Turk-ish regime the excavating lh hampered hamper-ed by a great deal of red tape " |