Show WAR ON DIVIDED SKIRTS et faeo may 20 the city council has decreed that no woman shall be allowed to walk or ride in the streets of el pao is known the divided skirt tho councilmen declared the practice which has threatened to become epidemic in certain circle to be an ordinance was passed embodying these views it Is very certain that the of mankind is measured by the status of women in those countries where wives so called are purchased with a buffalo hide a pony or an elephant tooth civilization has made bat little progress where women are sold for larger compensations man has advanced a step higher A greater progress is made where women are not sold at all but left diee to decide all such matters for themselves in a turkish country it is considered unbecoming for a woman to go into public places without a veil over her face in such countries men |