White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-08-10
THEPROPR|ETYO D
As NATURE PROVIDED WOMAN
WITH TWO OF EN-, THEY ARE
BECOMING LOOKED UPON"
As "HARMLESS."

n observes the n0rTlneu
haste and outraged sensibility with
which the truly refined and conscious
ly y%irtuous avert their gaze from any
%obtrusion of the feminine leg-that,
perhaps, after all. the Creator is to
be blamed; that He made an IN
pardonable mistake in constructing
women in the fashion He did, writes
Helen Dare in the San Francisco
Chronicle.
To make her with legs-two separ-
ate and distinct legs, however. neces-
sary-seems to have come to be re-
garded, at last, as a sort of divine
faux pas; a crude and vulgar error of
taste that superior persons of greater
delicaey are trying TO cover up and
conceal for Him as best they can.
Now, if only He had made her in
one piece
But the blunder having gone forth,
the damage being done. the I'M
fortunate style of feminine architec-
ltnre firmly established, having be-
come current, and perhaps unayoid-
able. the only thing left for the
shocked and disappearing discover
ers of His mistake is to correct it as
far as they can; TO eenso the design
and shrewdly and condescendingly
hide its faults; make 1t appear nor
"ladylike" than it is.
1nasmuch as they regard it an Of
tense against propriety and good
morals for a woman TO have legs-or
at least, 10 confess or expose the pos
session Of observation-disclosures and
ingenuity have been taxed, and the
Law invoked to make it appear that
she hasn't any.
Everything possible has been done
TO convey and sustain the impression
that she is indeed solid-and mysteri-
Gus from ner belt down.
Yet in spite of all the care that
they've taken and the pressure
they've exerted the feminine legs
have presistently asserted themselves,
broken loose from their bondage, as
il We're. and waved their defiance.
It's been a long and bitter struggle
with the odds in favor of the legs
now.
And it's not over by any means;
for there are still some valiant stands
10 be made against fortesses of pre-
judiee. some bitches to be taken.
They are diminishing even now, in
modest Chicago chat biushed pur-
pie at the first glimpse of ''septem-
Der Morn" and set a tinsmith TO
work to make politely ~presentable
its collection of plaster replieas of
antique sculpture in its public art
whether the feminine leg may be
recognized, and recognizable, for
swimming purposes.
An unsuspeeting woman, intent
only on swimming without undue eff
fort or the risk Of drowning. precipi-
tated the trouble-one DIR. Resale NJ.
Ladoya.
Complying with the regulations by
appearing on the municipal bathing
beach at Jackson Park in skirt and
boomers. she slipped off her skirt
when she slipped into the water, and
eaehing ii under a stone, struck out
in her ample boomers.
In spite of the fact that there is
probably no garment known to his
tory less alluring and seductive than
boomers, a Chicago policeman
couldn't let such indisputable evil
dence of the carefully denied and sup
pressed feminine leg pass u~nnoticed
and unpublished.
So a lifeguard was hurried after
the swimming doctor in a rowboat,
and she was brought back, ordered
into skirts, and taken to the police
station.
Ii would never do to let it get
rumored about that a woman had
legs, even though she browns In de-
nying them-in Chicago.
In the same noble cause tand
rational undertaking. Richmond,
va, arrested a I'M in a slit skirt
for indecent EXPOSURE"
Indecent exposure of what?
OF one (shapely) feminine leg
almost to the knee
And Richmond doesn't run in"
the men who wear knickerboekers,
nor the women who. when fashion
prescribes ii, ride bicycles in short
skirts and leggins.
If the revealing Internationally
of one leg is indecent exposure"
isn't the revealing of two legs