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Show 00 DO THE WOMEN DRESS IMMODESTLY? A correspondent maintains that too miin women dress immodestly and j suggests that they should he forced by law to keep within the proprieties. He says: "I believe many young men gel 1 j their first lessons in a downward ca-peer ca-peer from woman's dress, which j should be sufficient indictmeut ' against the prevailing modes of apparel. ap-parel. I am confident that the motive of the wearer of this scanty attire is none other than a desire to please and i attract the opposite sex. I do not any that a woman must wear sleeves that cover the entire arm and wrist, i a collar thai permits no view what ever of her neck, or a dress that trails 1 1 on the walk But surely there is a happy meau. This much is certain I that the modes of drss now In vogue ; are doing more than any other thing to undermine the modesty of young I girls." The shocked one should not be too sensitive. Soon that which Is now so immodest in woman s dress will be commonplace, and then no one will cast sensuous eyes at the wearer of the tight-luting skirt or the very low waist, or fall Into the snare of ol-i uptuous display When the Black Crook first appeared appear-ed on the American tage, pulpit and press condemned the exhibition made by the ballet girls and aelT-respecting people would have felt d.'sgraced if seen at one of the " Ion shows." iaet week at the Orpheum "Puss in Boots" was eniivened by a charming group or chorus girls in iighta and no ! one present for a moment thought of j the production as other than nropcr. Ed fact the chorus girl has come to be rocnized as an indispensable part of musical comedy The makers of women's fishion-are fishion-are fickle. They go from one extreme I to the other. A few years ago six I yards of cloth was none too much for a skirt. Now two vards !s the accepted ac-cepted happy medium and somr women manage to squeeze info a sin- j cle yard The women ihcmselves I have but a very small voice In prescribing pre-scribing style, yet most miserable is the woman or girl who refuses to abide by fashion's decree; for she Is in danger of social ostracism. I |