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Show 1 FAGS' FOREWOMEN UPHELD BY JUDGE! NEW YORK July 21. Clgaret moklng and knlckerbocker wearlnjf br women have reached the stare of I Conventionality where thev are not even "suggestively wrong," County Judge McLaughlin held today ln dismissing dis-missing a vagrancy charge against 18-year-old Mrs. Kdna Hobbs Heych The chief cempatm of the police, who arrested her -U Boraron Beach, j was that she, was nlttinc on a bunira-1 low oorch In k nickers. nonehalantJv j puffing at a scented fag." 3 : "I find nothlnc wronx. or even sur-gestlvely sur-gestlvely wronp ln wearing such a j costume." the court said. "Nor do I ! 1 "onslder that foct that the defendant was smoklnic a clgaret evidence of moral depravity. It must be recog- nlzcd that dav by day women lndulgu ' ln greater numbers ln the use of tobacco to-bacco and that such a Drocesx is con- I sldercd good form In polite society " |