The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-01
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soME MORE REFORMING.
 We have more than once remarked that this reforming business had no appreciabie end or limit in sight. When once the reformers got under
 way, there could be no telling where they would halt. or to what extremes they would go. Having decided what
 man shall or shall not drink. 1t would be only natural for them to regulate the eating and wearing propensities of the people by issisiation, just as they have attempted to regulate the liquor business in 70 many places.
 And the women--some of them were enjoying the way the men were being bound and gagged. as one might say. It did them eood to see the men held up and held down and made to be good. or as good as the nature of the case would admit. Little did they think that there was such a being as Nemesis lying in wait for them. We are somewhat hasy as to who Nemesis was. but he was biding his time. and now Is about to go for them in the shape of the Illinois Legislature. That body. it must be remembered. has been doins some reforming of late, and now 1t has east. prudence to. the winds ana proposes to regulate women's hatss Isn't that recklessness typined? The start has been made by the Introduce ton of a bill in the Legislature, and The Kansas Ciy Journal says of 1t:
 It Is said that when the bill was read by title 1t caused considerable merriment; but this was warmly re- sented by its friends, who insisted that Sils as s.s s, s,s for sn ss set raass so pro hfbit the manufacture, sale or use Of unsanitary, dangerous or deadly head ss,s @ or hss and sS rssvsss Msss 5e thsr we would bs as . loss to under. ounsanitary and "deadly' features of
 nIs womsns hass ;sltaougn some Of ,Ss Ss "dangerous" qualify of wide straw hat, especially If its edges are rough and saw-iike. But the Illinois legis- vsw of haSs ths natter rhey contsnd
 heavy legal phraseology that illness and death sometimes result from the use of the dead bodies of any bird. snake. lizard or any other animal, rep tire or insect. or any similar article subject to decay and likely to become the breeding place for filth or disease germs"
 Now what will the women of nil- nois say and do about that7 They may hold indignation meetings, pass red- hot resolutions, and otherwise express their feelings, but will that prevent the passage of the law7 Perhaps not. and then the laugh will be on the wo- men. for time at least, but we sus- pect they'ii laugh last and best. for we predict that the law. if passed, win be nuliity. so far as the enforcement of 1t is concerned. We have seen in all parts of the Union how vain have been the efforts to enforce legislation that popular sentiment does not endorse. What innocent old idiots these IlIi- ncis lawmakers must be-" The Journal adds. If they imagine for one moment that all their solemn pronouneements will have the least effect upon the fair ones of their State. A hat eighteen inches wide. fofsoothi If you please, they will wear them according to the dictates of higher court than yours, The laws of feminine fashion are su- perior to the laws Of state Lesssla- lures. and high heaven help the game warden who would attempt to scale . | hat on bright spring after noon to determine its width
 There'l be some interesting times, | we predict. if that law is enacted and It's enforcement attempted. Suppose woman Is seen wearing an illegal | otliciAl will undertake | to remove and connscate it? Women wear vicious-looiking hat-pits. and we have seen it intlmated that one of these modern spears in the hands of an angry and determined woman is just about as dangerous as a bayonet The law may be passed and its strict | enforcement attempted, hut--well, that is for the future to settle