Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-08-03
LAW LADIES AND WEARING APPAREL

LAW, LADIES AND WEARING APPAREL
Legislation is running 10 seed just why 1t is i'm
possible to say Slit skirts hotel sheets. the reno
val Of hats drinking cup, wndbown draperes
all Of these and more have become subjects for
grave deliberaton on the part Of our angus, law
making bodice.
In the meantime gravcr ohcnses have become
matters Of indifference One has only to remark
the unusual number OF aoquiltals IN cases Of high
crime 10 realize this fact a murderer stands a
very good chance Of escaping the laws tolls. but
the hotel keeper whose sheet is three inches short
Of the prcsoubed limit or the woman wearing a
skirt with more than scven-nch slit can expect
no mercy
September Nom" has created Juror
throughout the country. but the looting OF homes.
the taking Of life and the p,licrlng OF money cause
little disturbance
The assassin can accomplish his deliverance by
Sinking at a jury and holding innocent children
on his vllanous lap. but the traveller is compelled
to carry his own drinking cup lest he become me
mace to public safety
The thief is gwen his liberty because his weep
ing mother is produced IN count at the critical mo
ment but the sister Of the thief accused Of wear
ing prescribed gown Is permitted 10 avail herself
of no such rmcdy
Men convicted Of the mos, brutal crimes are
turned loose on the community sop 10 our
thirst for sensational charity but an rnanimatc pc
,ure Of an innoccn, child can not be displayed IN
l. d, .I,,tlJ
morals
Owe Of the sensational has caused to duvel
over details The important things OF live have be
come prosaic because they have always been the
important things Of lie We delight in prancinp
about with original IDEAS We glory IN chasing
rainbows though thunderbolts still pour from out
the past
OF late public attention has been largely con
centraled on the ladies and their wearing apparel
possibly because the ladies have pushed them
selves into the limeigh, through the movement for
equal suffrage Some OF the fashions rather nd
iculous II is true but no so than always The
hobble skirt which makes woman look some
thing like an Egyptian mummy Is mo- more 10 bc
condemned than the hoop skirt which made hen
look like pile Of hay
Only few years ago ladies were wearing
dresses that measured from fifteen to twenty feet
around the bottom Such a fashion could not last
1t involved too great a waste OF cloth Quite ma
turally the hobbe skirt came about as representing
the other extreme But, while the hobblc skirt
proved economical it also proved announcement for
purposes OF looomotion. The minong gait might
be well enough to look at but il was mighty an
roying when one was three minutes late and the
car was coming around the corner
Consequently the slit Skin, was devised. In.
much-discussed Carmen, no, only permits economy
IN cloth bu, at the same time makes d possible tor
the wearer to take a nine inch step II occasion
quires
Ye, courts and legislatures have been thrown
into pnoxysms by this natural sequence OF fash
ION, On such silly pretexts Socrates was made TO
drink the hemlook Yet. Of all the court who tined
him his is the only name remembered
We can not accomplish moral development by
,lu,ternq statute books with such puerile laws We
can not bring about personal publication by chuck
ing pictures into the waste basket We can not
improve the management Of hotels by measuring
bed sheets.
Law Is no stronger than the sentiment behind
h. and the sentiment behind some Of our laws be
speak, anything but vinity. So long our laws
and lawmakers linger around such subjects as no
tel sheets drinking cups and ladies wearing APP
parel We can hardly expect them to accomplish