The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-29
KNOCK KNEED OF
 THE FAIR SEX ARE
 IN VAST NUMBERS
NOW THEY SAY THAT EVEN VENUS tDE MILO WAS ONE
 OF THEM.

New York, fAug. 2e-A sermon advo- eating Sdress reform delivered by the Rev. DF. Robbins of the Lincoln Park Institutional Church in Cincinnati Kephart Wilson and Miss Susy Rem mick, a school teacher, that they inn mediately enlisted the aid of the W. iC T U, to assist them in starting "a campaign, against the preeent-day modes says the New York World;
 Mss Rennick began her work by giving to thee press long statements an which she declared that hobble skirts caused women to become knock kneed. and if they already possessed hhaf defect, the Epresent style made 1t more obvious.
 Miss c. Hart. who has charge of the gown department in the Mafeon Mau- rice in Fifth avenue, was the first young woman toN support Miss Ken hicks contention.
 T hate to admit it. but it is only roc tyue.' said Miss Hart to The WcrI reporter. "Few if any women have absolutely straight limbs, and I've experience great difficulty some fimee in getting the tight skirts to cover up this most general defect. The new pannier helps some. because of hts long draparies, but with the old hobble it was impossible to wholly conceal 1t.
 Dent you fust Sthink it is perfectly hcrrSd to have toAbe made that way? n just hate to think of it. and for an about 1t, and call their attention to Eha fact when maybe some of them never thought of 1t, before, is, I think. perfectly epiteful!
 T think you will have lots of trou- ble getting girls to admit they are Knock -kneed. although I admit that it so. I do want to say, though that if your le-ah-limbs are absolutely straight a hobble or tight skirt cannot make them crooked, even if it does dnpede your walk"
 A little further up the avenue. in ahe shop of Louise & Go, was found Miss Helen Taylor, another brave lit tie woman, who, while she deplored Ehe awfulness of the fact, still had courage to admit that it was true
 T have been told by a physician that most women are either knock kneed or bowiegged, but I would 8 whole lot rather ibe the former, wouldn't you? We lhave had to ar range all our gowns to suit the limbs of the customer. If we dared to tell her the truth she would leave us and go to another shop to buy, so we al- ways make some little excuse about the length of the gown and then ar range the gown to conceal madams limbs.
 However. I don't think women should worry aDout the matter. 1T you look closely at the Venus de Milo you will observe that what they call nhe Harmonic Poise was in reality only knock k-kneedness-so there.
 Tn spite of this talk continued Miss Taylor, 'there isn't any relief in sight. The gowns are being made just as tight as before, and while they have a few draperies on them around the hips, the knees are exposed just as much as usual We will have to try auto suggestion. I guess, while these clothes are being worn."
 The only girls who really are not worrying about this awful discovery are the chorus girls.
 One little chorus girl. Millicent Ven Vescha Taylor, declared the very fact that a girl was in the chorus was proof conclusive that her limbs were perfect. So why should chorus girls worry?