The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-04-06
LOCAL WOMEN
HAVE A KICK
Object to Hosiery and Glove
Tariff in Payne Bill.
ON AUTHORS TRAIL
Fair Sex of Land Would Like
to Get at Serene Payne.
Marion Women to Join in Fight for
Free Wearing Apparel Now Buy
ing in Advance.

There Is a goodly portion of the
spirit of '7G still afloat in the land
and in the vicinity of the effete ana
well fed congressional halls to, can
never be gainsaid now that Repre-
sentative Serene Payne has had the
temerity-the ladies call 1t effron.
tery--to dare propose more of that
horrid duty stuff on woman's wear
| ing apparel Just as IL there isn't
enough work for the courts now be-
cause of Clothes" Does the <hOn-
orable congressman from New
York state want to keep his less
fortunate brothers holding their
probosis TO the grindstone all the
time or does he propose to aeceler-
ate the speed with which the dl-
Ivorce mill grinds out those signifi-I
cant legal looking documents which
replace wifey's stead meal ticket
and give her pleasant ''lump
lsum" instead
From every corner of this broad
land of U. S. A. the fair sex arises
as one fair bundle of unappeasable
wrath at the name of Serene Payne
and call II cursed Don't the iiend
know we must have our clocked
hosiery and Partisan gloves and
hand done lingerie?' they demand
Of husband or father or any other
man who happens 10 be paying the
bills. ''Show us to this Payne
person, let us at him. they cry af-
ter the fashion of a Chicago
actress doing the "heavy" in =
melodrama. Meanwhile Payne goes
to the congressional bivouac via
back alleys and dashes madly up
the steps after carefully reconnOit-
| ering to see If the coast is clear
Strange females heavily veiled and
carrying queer looking bundles
popularity supposed TO hold bomb;
and other instruments of torture oi
death bother the ushers for news
q lof Congressman Payne, and hi
Iprivate secretary has to be dug ou
Of the congressman mail twice 4
day since the Introduction OF tn
>, tariff bill Spontaneous combustion
q" caused by the burning thoughts ant
: heated adiectives addressed to Sere
e no is matter of daily occurrence
! the fire department i'm the yicnit,
Il of his lodgings have recently beateI
their own record by twenty-threD
" seconds getting on the job at Payne
~ and also TO other members Of tn,
1 Ways and Means committee ant
. congress I'm general.
a Marion women are taking all
Il sorts of precautions against tn
d possibility of enough Paynes II
/ the House to railroad this colossa
l. injustice through Yes, that Is tn
= secret of the crowds at the glov
n and hosiery counters in local store
Q and the prevailing popularity of tn
q French departments. Gwen foo
. the old fox" they gurgle gleefully
"We1l buy enough to last us In
D. definitely and then let him collec
l. his old tariff II he can Why We
a, even go without gloves and stock
3 ings If necessary, but no mere ma
a, is going to dictate where we bu
our clothes or how much we pa
:, for them, not If we have to resor
- to the styles of Mother Eve"
" The question agitating all O
10 Washington now is-can the Dol
4 bad law giver from New York stan
pat or will it be a case of an IN
T. glorious exit through the bac
A. door of the House of Representa-
tives with the ghosts of number
20 less French milliners and Nader
a. peasant girls flourishng trium
- phant embroidery frames hot o
- the trail