The sun., 1901-04-15
The Epoch Of the Legs.
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By ROBERT J. BURDETTE.
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the dawn is speeding up the slopes
of the orient: little while and the
rosy fingered hours will paint the day
red Emancipation is on its way BY
Adam and Ewes express. Yea, it is
even now here, with both feet
How do ! knt w this? How does the
cautious prophet become dead certain
of anything? BY keeping his ewes
open, taking both papers, and wait
ing patiently until the event has
prophesied itself. That's how.
\ day or two since | was trying to
bring order out of the eternal chaos
which ever rules in the Jingle whicl,
] call my den, debating within my
self whether to go on with the regt-
lar order or go out and set fire to
the house, the shorter and sometimes
more profitable, and certainly under
any circumstance. least expensive
method Of cleaning house. hast Y
but hurried investigation revealed
the depressing fact that my fire in
surance had lapsed some twain years
erst. ! sighed and went on with TIL
task of restoring a semblance of or
der inside. The women folk sighed
| twice to my once, so 1 was also our
sighed. Signed copies of this will be
sent on application. a ten cent stamp
must accompany each request, not
necessarily for publication, but to
make Il little noise with Where
| there is absolutely no sense, there
| should be some sound.
| Well. emptying a box containing
much antique literature. a large as
sortment Of feet footed spiders with
sinister colIntenance. and the elm
dwellings of a colony of irascible mud
wasps, there tumbled out an OH
bound volume of Godey's Lady .
Book. Dear old Cooley There WA,
| the old familiar colored fashion plate
folded at the beginning of each mum
.ber. A lady with head the size of ;
hazel nut, and cloud compelling
bonnet as large as clothing ham
per. with whole conservatory o
fabulous and highly colored flowers
all in full bloom. swarming over ant
under and around it. The lady had ;
mouth not quite so wide as her nose
long and gracefully curved neci
trailed its sihuous length from he1
head until it gradually tapered into
a pair Of shoulders which slopet
downward until they lost themselve:
in what was left of the body aft \ th,
Eeck and shoulders had been formeG
From Il waist not so large in circum
ference as the thinnest part Of tin
neck, swelled "A vast, widc-circlin!
skirt. Legs. or scinblance or sug
yeston of legs the lady hand none
Barely visible at the front of th
skirt wee. tiny point like the Yer
tex Of n triangle peeped timidly on
into sight and family suggested tina
the rest of a foot was concealed
somewhere behind it. There is neve
any suggestion of more than on
foot | looked at the picture. am
naturally thought of Sir John Suck
ling's ballad Upon Wedding"--
"Her feet beneath her petticoat,
Like little mice stole in and out,
As If they feared the light"
Although | want you distinctly g
understand that nothing so coarse o
vulgar as petticoat went with tina
sort Of fashion plate. No. stree
ma'am. We didn't wear such thing
/, in those modest days. Not mother
son of MS.
Well, lifting mine eyes from tha
: fashion plate of long ago, and lool'
ing out of my window upon "Ann
Domini 1901" automobiing. and ga
, loping. and striding, and driving, am
,, tally-hoing past, the prophetic visio
came upon me. heard the deer
, rotund chest tone of wolnan-none @
your weak, piping, masculine falsett
] calling out of to-day into the depth
of tomorrow, that woman is free
5 free-fer-ree. Emancipated all th
u way. Ay, from the ground up. Tha
F, is where she has begun. At TIL
ground. With her understanding
Ii is the epoch of LEGS The bale
y Girl may put on her longest dress wit
!, the most sweeping train. She is II
:. rood. She is in evidence-and YER
I expensively-an hour or two ever
/ evening in the season, maybe. B'
the beginning of the century woma
= cavorts all day long, and il doesn
cost cent to see her take her peda
l. out for an airing.
"Her feet beneath her petticoat
Like little mice stole In and out
IS oh, they did, did they? Well, bac
in the bleak. dcsolate days, when sll
i. was the sul-lave of the tyrant maj
Il maybe they did. But they don't ste;
! out now. Steal in and out, hey
d They come charging out like pa
o Of reciprocal cuirassers, clad in goo
|, stout leather, with soles as thick as
o Philadelphia pie, and they leave
!! track in the dust like snowsho
l. '.As if they feared the light fei
= uothlsg! Light? Bless your simp
soul, son, when she puts on her fla
, bottoincd shoes and bestrides h
spinning wheel after dark she lfgh
o u lantern and hangs it on the whe
ID that she may see and be seen. Fe'
l. the light, quotha! Ay, marry con
n. up. Turn the calcium on me please
20 Why, this era of the legs will lor
e be remembered in history. Does N
= lady care to waltz? Not particular
II She has learned that man is not
10 necessity in ballroom. She can
the skirt dance or wriggle throue
the bcwilderng mazes of the serpe
i'll fine much better without partne
ie The little girls on the street wi
III dance to the lascivious pleasing
the tinklina street piano kick the
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