The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-04-12
POLICE Will
CENSOR GIRLS
BATHING SUITS
CHICAGO CHIEF ISSUES AN Or
DER AGAINST SHORT SKIRTS
AND TIGHT FITTING
GARMENTS.

Chicago, April 12.--Those petite
young women who ego out to swim but
don't go near the water viii subject
themselves to arrest If they continue
to wear those fllmy directoire suits
that occasionally made their appear
ance at the beaches last summer. For
a stern policemanprtf erably an old
one with wife and children of his own
will stand guard at each bathing
beach and will pass Judgment on every
new Creation that appears at the
beaches.
And that Is not all. The paternal-
istic supervision of the police depart
ment is to include those athletic young
men, who, In bathing suits that best
show off their Apollo like forms. loll
in the sands or pace up and down the
beach before the admiring gaze of the
aforementioned young women.
Complaints Last Year.
That is the programme that Chief of
Police Steward has mapped out for his
men this summer. Last season there
were numerous complaints, chiefly in
the vicinity of the Wilson avenue
bathing beach, of both men and women
who went to and from the beach clad
in light blankets, scarfs or less. So
the chief decided that he would pick
his most dependable men, men of the
calm judicial temperament, and place
them at the beaches this summer to
prevent any over-zealous bather from
neglecting his costume.
oydaxe xayI. i7I, AI,n oh{aF vyav,awod
yesterday prohibit any of these cos
tunes:
Womens boomers without skirts.
Skirts that do not reach below the
knees.
Mems tight fitting suits that do not
properly cover the shoulders.
Mems one-piece suits.
Almost any but the most modest cut
of suit for those who don't approach
the water"
An alert policeman will be on watch
at the doors of both the uomen's and
the mems bathrooms. If a woman
bather trips out attired in such cos
tune as, in the judgment of the police
man, he wouldn't care to have his wife
or daughter wear, he will accost her
at once, call her to one side and tell her
of her error,
beg pardon madam, but, er-I don't
believe the chief will stand for that
suit. Better go back and sew more
on the bottom of thes XII !" probably
will be the style of address.
Sir! What do you mean?" may
be the expected reply.
Whereupon the policeman, ever DO
lite and tactful is under orders to ex-
plain to the bather that while the style
Of suit may be absolutely correct, while
it might "go" at Newport or any other
place 1t is not looked upon as the
proper thing in Chicago.
Threat of Arrest.
In fact, it may add as a clincbing
argument, unless the wearer consents
to substitute cloak or all-concealing
outer garment immediately, 1t will he
come necessary to make an arrest.
This threat, Chief Steward believes.
should not be necessary except in rare
intervals.
Incidentally 1t is expected that MANY
and various sorts Of pulls will be ex-
ercised by policemen who desire the
bathing beach soft snaps" Poliea-
men who once sought the jobs about
theatres as easy berths now are ex-
Dected to turn their attention to tba =
bathing beach judgeships,P but the
chief says men who, because Of their.
lge nave been relegated to OUTLYING
will be given he preference