Show FINDS SHORT SKIRT IS REAL BLESSING LONDON LONDON LONDON-By By The Associated Press Entertaining Entertaining ladies In the good old days das of Victoria was a 8 good deal of a job William Prior train Inspector at Blackheath who is retiring after 52 years ears of railway service says young oung trainmen do not realize what a blessing skirted short-skirted athletic ladles are to the railway Why Wh when the ladles ladies wore hoop- hoop skirts we had to turn ourselves es into ladles ladles' maids and squeeze the dear things into the narrow car doors Then there came another tussle to them seated without get disaster declared Prior In the days when they wore ore both bustles and hoops it wasn't possible to t get five of them seated in the space assigned o. o to five passengers paSsengers and the trains were often delayed in the effort to get the ladles ladies settled Fortunately a delay of ofa ofa a 8 few minutes wasn't as disastrous then as it would be In these days of fast schedules |