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Show I SALT LAKE WOMEN OBJECT. There is a moral wave sweeping over Salt Lake City. On Monday the women of the Ladies' Lllerarv rlubnv-solved rlubnv-solved that, in the future, Aphrodites'' Aphro-dites'' be banned. The resolution resolved re-solved that such displays in ihelr more intimate and frank character (as regards the non-existence of draper-JSC draper-JSC for the female form) are not of an elevating character, or conduche to high thinking or righteous behavior, and that therefore they should be stopped at the city's gates of Salt Lake. Perhaps the women of Salt Lake do not know that the play drew no unusual un-usual attention in New York City until un-til objection was mado to the costumes cos-tumes of tho females. Those in charge of the performance made one or two minor concessions to the censors. cen-sors. Immediately there was a rush to see the assortment of thinly clad females and the play was deemed to be of sufficient success to tour the country. There ha3 been so much of the un-draped un-draped female on the stage that i heater-goers no longer are disturbed by any display short of the nude That which becomes commonplace neither shocks nor excites Forty years ago the dancing girls of today would have been driven from the public ga& ' . an outraged people Even ten years ago any girl who appeared ap-peared on the streets as girls do today to-day clad In dresses up to their knee. , would create a sensation and be ostracised. |