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Show i?T GOODNESS! HOW'LL OTTR WOMEN FOLK Tfff MB LAD V I j 7 W gB&T CACey TUT hi I L According to the latest fashion notes from New York and Paris. women's klru will bo tighter tbia spring than ew U A glance at the latest fashion jour-I jour-I nals seems to Indicate that women's I skirts or isn't just "skirts" enough'' this spring will be much the same as they have been, only very, very much more so The "umbrella cose" j effect Is Dot new to us There will I be a difference of several Inches in the width of the skirt bottoms of to-; to-; da and those that are to be The difference being in favor, indeed verv ' much In favor, of those of today And, I oh yes' the skirts are also shorter All of which merits our deliberation The discussion of a topic of this sort requires the utmost tact and delicacy. deli-cacy. We would offend a reat many of our good readers should we with a wanton disregard of, propriety blurt out some unseasonable and indecorous indecor-ous comment on this new style We must pilot carefully around the shoals of Indelicacy We must not. for example, ex-ample, say "legs." And yet it must be admitted that since skirts are to be tighter and SHORTER we are going to be rather forcibly reminded of the fact that (say. it's the deuce trying to phrase this gracefully the gentle sex are not without er a means of ahem! walking around the block Ho-hum! We got out of that quite hanldly. arj well then We have with a most commendable nicety pointed out that the sprint; skirts are to at tain an even greater paucity than here 4 tofore. If vou know what we moan. So much indeed that we are serious- t ly concerned as to how our wife, if h we had one. would be able to embark upon a trolley, If she wore ono of r the new skirts Realizing that this h will become quite B problem once I the skirts are in common usage, we 9 have sot about endeavoring to solve & it. No doubt a great many of tho other sex will wear this Incapacious ? garment Also It seems likely that 4 quite- a few of them will, at one time or another, have occasion to get ou 9 a car. How Is It to be done without & well, how Is It to be done? I Our solution Let the wearer of J the sparse skirt carry- with her a A screen that can be arranged in such a way when she is hoarding the boat that the Innocent bystander will have JA DO reason for pausing In the course ! of his every-day activities 9 Do you get us? A |