Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1892-11-11

AOld the same ploW handle, Tend over
the same desk forty years, with your
thoughts chained down to them, and
you become hump shouldered old
hunks-blind, deaf, weak and disagree
able
Keep up with the wagon. Change
your old views and habits for new and
better ones when you find them, and be
always on the lookout for them. Life is
change. movement, sparkle.
Hon. Carroll d. Wright says it is in
dustrial emancipation. DR.. Flower, ed
itor of The Arena, believes it is the
emancipation of woman's lower limbs.
He has been hammering away at this
topic of dress reform with perhaps
more genuine interest than any wom-
an in the country. He is carrying
on, man though he is, brave crusade
against long skirts and corsets. He
asks, "What is the language of the
skirt If it is not the badge of woman's
inferiority bequeathed from barbarous
pastY Well, we don't know. Ask us
something easy.
In pursuance of his philanthropic aim
DR.. Flower has symposium on wom-
ans dress in The Arena. Contributors
to it are Lady Harberton, who is the in
ventor of the divided skirt for woman;
Octavia W. Bates, A. b., the English
college woman; Grace Greenwood and
E. NJ. King, a Farmers Alliance wom-
an, who also lectures. All go in for the
short skirt. This is the main thing at
present demanded for reform in wom-
ans dress, they agree one and all. Mrs
! King, however, seems to be the only
one who has the courage of her convic-
tons and is brave enough to appear in
what Lady Harberton calls 1.-TWO
legged dress, the only suitable dress for
q two legged creature"
In his editorial paper DR.. Flower gives
a number Of illustrations Of this two
legged dress for women. Some of them
are pretty; others are otherwise. Miss
Bates dwells on the danger to life,
health and limb from the trailing skirt,
also the expense Of it in the frequent
renewals of braids and other accesso-
ries." A document is printed, signed by
May Wright Sewall, Frances Willard,
! Clara Barton and other well known la
dies, in which they agree to give their
influence in favor of an Improvement in
woman's dress. But at the same time
they distinctly decline to make any
promise that they will wear any particu-
lar style Of reform dress, SO what is the
especial good of their document?
Lady Harberton perhaps hits the nail
on the head when she says enerSetically,
1T is impossible to look at an assembly
of women without remarking how de-
void they seem to be of all idea of prog
ress and of getting rid of disabilities in
dress" That is probably it. The women
themselves are "agin it,"
w. It. Stead, editor of The Review of
Reviews, has taken up with his accus-
toned vigor the cause Of Mrs. Maybrick,
the hapless American woman now lying
in Working prison because she either did
or did not poison her husband, and the
| English lawyers have never been able to
find out whether she did or not. So, re-
versing all law and precedent which
hold an accused person innocent till he
has been proved guilty, these brilliant
British judges sent Mrs. Maybrick TO
| Jail. They confessed to having preju-
dice against her because she had been
gossiped about That of itself untitled
them to judge her case, but on the
strength Of it they condemned her to
Imprisonment for life. Mr.. Stead makes
powerful appeal for the woman in his
magazine Ought Mrs. Maybrick to
Be Tortured to DEATH" is the title. He
says in his paper absolutely that both he
and Sir Charles Russell have received
the deathbed confession Of n man in
I South Africa-Henry Wilson-who says
| he and a woman whose name is not
given put arsenic in Mr.. Maybrick's
medicine during his last illness. If this
is true, then the cruelty and meanness
Of so called English justice appears more
wildly than ever. Mr.. Stead is right in
saying that the matter may become a
cause of diplomatic complications with
the United States. The United States
will not see one of its citizens tortured
to DEATH" Stead says Mrs. Maybrick
will die unless soon released.
as the tar all rightY' demanded
sepulchral voice that issued from slit
in white Handkerchief. The handker-
chief yelled mans head and face.
at is" was the answer, no less sepul-