Show the ansle at which woman carries her el 1 tiow in abortive efforts to lift her trailing i clinging skirts it into a human ita puncher with calm and as often callous indifference maid and matron punch their way to their goal be it at the bargain counter of the department store or the crowded shopping street none can deny that the unavoidable annoyances noy ances of crowded thoroughfares to which people in large cities are inured are sufficient tax upon patience and equanimity and why will women trebly increase thee by the adoption of an inelegant whim in the carriage of their arms because bomea have become infatuated with an inconvenient and slovenly mode of drees Is no reaton bat they should yoke it to another which enhances its evil but the crowning iniquity and absurdity of the threet clenning gown I 1 the encroaching elbow which ladarce thrusts or dig into every passerby as he awkwardly clutches the clinging folda dofher skirt in a vain effort to lift it from the alith of the pavement for one originator of anything there are a anad humanity Is like a nock of sheep and springe alth the same eagerness to follow its leader if yon must wear trailing skirts at times and seasons when they are tout of place make them as ft an as pos tible and lift them A little practice before a full leneth mirror will enable anny woman to learn the art of gathering he bolde folde of her skirt in one band and lifting that itata he tarui extended br ber side they will be 1 entirely from the pavement in this position the arm hot merely accomplishes the purpose of protecting the skirt from the dir but being comparatively free and the of the whole body and it Is possible to walk with some degree of ease and grace even handicapped by the necessity of tor a trailing gown |