Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-13
The Triumphant Peek Boo.
r1o,isville Courier-Journal.]

Louisville COurler-JouTHal.1
"The w. C. Z. u. has abandoned its
crusade against the peek-a-boo waists
on account of ridicule. Los Angeles
telegram to the New York World.
Up with the banner of the Peek-a-
| Boot Thus has it won a victory over
| its enemies; thus are the scorners
| scorned: thus has ridicule reacted upon
| its own mouthpieces. Which goes TO
| show that you couldn't down a good
| thing, particularly when 1t is backed
by public sentiment. There is pupllc
sentiment back of the Peek "a Boot
is fore and aft, it surrounds. Find an
| adorable Peek-a- Boo, and 10! there is
public sentiment lowering about APP
proving and feasting on glimpses OF
pink poetry dreaming and shmmeflns
thru delicious and diaphanous fabrics!
Summer wanes. The melancholy Gays
draw nigh when the Peek-a-Boo VIII
go into its winter quarters ana IN lls
place will be found armor plate ana
furs Alas, for the mutabil1ty or sea-
sons and the fickleness of womans raj
ment! When the Peek-a-Boo is known
no more, then will supreme artlstc
frolic an aesthetic joy, a living meta
phor. an indefinabe symphony or eX-
auisite grandeur be departed and WIS.,
ions Of loneliness sink feebly into re-
grets and memories. May summer
pass not too swiftly; may autumnal
blasts be yet tardy in their coming;
may the Peek Boo tarry to the last.
UP in Poughkepsie the Peek-a-Boo
has a great and good friend-among
many others--in the figure OF the
Poughkeepsie Eagle To this dear
brother the Peek boo is reminiscent
of other days. 1t is distinctly and
emphatically all right. And still 1t
might be better. Hearken unto the tin
tinnabulatons of this Eagle of Pough-
keepsie.
1.-The waists which they wore then
were not peek "a boos.' for they were
not so constructed as to 'artfully re-
veal while pretending to conceal But
their daughters, the young women OF
those days, wore waists which, to be
sure. We're not peek -boos either,
for there wasn't anything with hole
in to peek thru. the shoulders, to a
depth quite as distant as anything we
have ever seen under the meshes of
the peek-a-b boo. were entirely uncov-
cred open to the air and to the gaze
Ol dtlyb)OuS MIlo ClloSS " SSS lhSih, stiis1
we were going to say to the sunshine.
but that would not be exactly true. for
they did not like the effect Of the sun
shine upon the sensitive skin, and
there was usually something to keep
that off But girls went to school with
bare shoulders and walked the streets
with bare shoulders and went to church
with bare shoulders, neither they nor
anybody else dreaming that there was
any improperly or immodesty in doing
SO. and for ourselves we can testify
that it was a beautiful fashion. And
the girls of that day-we are almost
reasonable enough to say that they
were more charming than our own, but
we are restrained by the, fact that
once in while we do go to an even
ing function where i'm the shelter of
the parlor or the dancink room, under
the gasight, the fashions of other days
are still retained"
On and ON, sure and surer. the Peek |
a-Boo proceeds on it's triumphant way.
Ridicule it, and you are ridiculed
Scorn it, and you are scorned. 1t is
victorious in the park or in the parlor,
In the mountains or at the seashore, on
Betsey or Sophronisbia. 1t is invinci-
BILE 1t provokes anthems, verses,
cheers and sonatas. Who can resist it's
magnetic eloquence? Who can keep