The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-22
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Pretty Rhttan.

Minneapolis News: About the only
occasion for surprise in connection
with the escape of Harry Thaw is
that he didn't do it sooner.
Altogether, the career and treat
ment of his absolute young Pitts
burger constitute a worse black eye
to the state of New York than the So
called Sulzer scandal. His crime was
the logical outcome of the lawlessness
with which New York permits de-
generate wealth to amuse itself. His
trial and disposition displayed certain
commercial features which would
hardly have been noted had there not
been a millionaire's estate for pick
ing. F..
And now that there has been an
escape" there will be more litiga-
ton, more interposing Of fine spun
legal technicalities, more consentingf
of the courts to delay on petty quib-;
bles that would be waved aside with.
judicial Indignation were they I'd
vanced in the interest of a lesser bank
roll. ~
Even in it's worse aspect, the sulzer
case is only an incidental revelation
of conditions which are more
thoroughly portrayed in the annals Of
the ThaW case.
Referred to the Ladies Tailor.
Minneapolis Tribune: Jane Burr.
which is the pen-name of a lady who
says she writes poetry, for a living,
although she is the inheritor of vast
wealth, comes to the defense of the
tight skirt. Referring to the remark
of a fashionable dame, My friends
do not wear them, and / look forward
to the return off the wide skirt and
"Just what does 1T imply? Tubercu-
4losis, filth and undaintiness in the last
degree
She goes on to say that wide skirts
flop all over street car floors, curb
ings and stairWays, no matter how
short they are. When the wearer
steps u of them at night she adds a
few million germs to her flreside rugs
and drops a lot of them over her lover
ly head when resuming the wide skirt
in the morning. The moderately
cleanliness, comfort. Long life to5itt,,
Most mere men will undoubtedly in-.i
dorse the preference for the moderate
" tight skirt. Those of us who re-
member the hideous hoepskirts of the
civil war times will put up a silent
prayer that they will never be re-.
yived. The criticism of the modern
narrow skirt is based upon Its extreme
tightness.s Some feminine writer has
said that p~resent-day fashions are in
the main the most beautiful and con
vanient and sanitary ever known. lf
this is so, it Is a pity that some wona-
en- should mako sthem unpopular BY
exaggerations that giye5taem d bizarre
effect, as we'll las Inconvenience the
wearer by making a free and natural
stride impossible.
The male sea certainly advantaged
itseif physicallygh by adopting the bifur-
Gated trausers form OF garment for
1ifs lever limbs at an early day, and
by sticking. to IT through all the sar-
torial changes of the centuries. Per
.liaps to- the greater freedom of move
yment given nv. these garments mcn
owe their physical superiority as much
to- anything. m
The tight skirt may be an essay. ny
the eyn~ancipated On towards re-
covering this advantage. If 80. they
would do better to tackle the problem
BOLDLY, and adopt garments when
really insure freedom ef movement,
while at the same time 3serVinig the
requirements soG gnndAsty,