Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-10
PRESS OPINIONS
IMMODEST APPAREL.
beaumont Enterprise)


The mere man who sets himself the
task of criticising women's dress or
a Woman's dress undertakes a Job
that leads to nothing, for the women
will always have their way. and he
Is apt to be slapped on the wrist in
manner that will teach him the ad-
visibility OF minding his own bust
ness. But, inasmuch as the conven-
'tlon OF women's clubs is on record
as disappearing the present styles in
women's apparel as immodest, there
should no grave danger in abiding
to the subject discreetly.
In recent editorial the Enterprise
cited a case where a young man had
beene sentenced to prison by New
York judge for accosting on the street
respectable young woman who was
unattended. The nterprise was of
the opinion that the judges attitude
showed that there is tendency to
accord to women more latitude and
to protect them in this wider 1ati-
tude. The Galveston News is inclined
to believe that the prevailing styles
in women's apparel are not conducive
of a higher regard for women by
News, in commenting on the sug-
gestions of the Enterprise, "and too
I much cannot be said in condemna-
ton of the impretinent peppers and
| gazers and oglers and winkers and
blinkers and would-be assaulters VINO
hang on the corners or lie in wait on
! the street cars or in automobiles for
belated females or for the vain and
men. "All this is true" says the
adventurous joy-riders who are ap-
parently so eager to be picked u
| even by strange men,"
But conduct OF this kind is moth
ing new in the history of the, woFio
! and the News thinks there is anoth'
err angle from which the case OF the
respectable young man arrested fol
"mashing'' may be viewed Ihef'
i are certain other remarks says tht
News, pertinent to the present sltua
Il ton that have not been made and GER
; tain ether things which need be done
even after all the male offender
i have been skinned Above or beheaded
81 style of dress which the best O
women of the country declare I'M
modest and for which the worlf
COURAGEOUS" would be more appro
, priate in thousands of instances ma.
> nGltlCT eACuSC llCi Sh>>OA
masher. but it is at levrt to be talf'.
, considered in any serious movemen
looking to public decency and tn
. protection ad safety of women; an
r when the most daring sort OF dress
Il ing is followed by the most desperat
kind of dancing, Or by the easy hapi
of ioy-riding, even with strangers,
is at least in order for parents I
organize and for influential friend
S to interpose to warn and dlssuao
al the masheress while the courts ar
!, putting down the masher. When
comes 10 womans apparel accoraih
to the women themselves, matter
# have been going from bad to wors
+ for several years past, at the yer
time when the woman's rights move
. ment has been taking form and grow
% ing stronger. and when the bette
IF evidences OF common sense wei
~ needed and naturally expected. IL WI
,e| doubles she long time before tn
"a "immcdest" dres of woman Will |
'e regulated out of existence by ordil
II ance or statute, but as long as 1t
ne SO general tolerated, approved al
!, INDUCED in there will continue to !
:" something sadly inconsistent il Il
~ hereto work that is being done u
e, the judges and others to save wome