The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-06-11
Appeal of Jane Adams Sweeps
Away Last Vestige of Real
Opposition
SLIT SKIRT AND TIGHT
GOWN ARE CONDEMNED
Resolutions beh0HHeiRg Cos
tunes Which Accumulate
Charms Will be Adopted
BY MARIE MOORE.


CHICAGO. June 1.-THE last YES
tige OF standpatism on the suffrage
question had vanished from the bien-
NAL assembly of the general fedora
tion OF womens clubs today
Votes for women, leaders today
pointed To the unprecedented demon,
stration that greeted Jane Adams
earnest appeal for woman suffrage
at the formal opening or the conyeu-
ton. last night Suffrage enthusiasm
fairly swept the audience of 1000
women 10 their feet, and even the
lukewarm. non-voting delegates were
shouting Votes for wOmen" with the
-TroSuffragists when the woman
Roosevelt calls the first woman OF
America" made her declaration Tor
the woman vote
Without tho franchise said Miss
Adams, woman is shut OF the,
game-the great game played the
world over by statesmen who, al this
moment, are attempting TO translate
social sympathy into political actiy'
.ity
Speaking further OF womens rela-
ton 10 public policies, Miss Adams
said
I'VE have learned as woman not TO
be afraid OF anything because II Is
political or because IL is new.
This was construed as direct chal-
lenge TO the federation's official ma
chine" which holds that the major
ity OF the federated club women are
not ready for suffrage
The Pennsylvania state delegation
and several state bodies have IN
dorsed suffrage and pledged them
selves 10 vote for the suffrage resolu'
ton. which IL is now certain viii be
introduced by this biennial conven-
ton.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Cats address
Friday night, promises 10 be the final
word that will clinch suffrage victory
in, the convention. The suffrage reso-
luton probably will not be offered TO
the convention until after Mrs. Gait
speaks
when representatives OF four hun
dred thousand women condemn
the existing styles-wel, the slit skirt
Is on wobhly legs and about 10 go
This was the comment today OF a
leading Chicago designer upon the
action OF the bureau OF information
OF the general federation OF women ;
clubs, IN adopting sweeping resolu-
tons yesterday, condemning the slit
skirt. the tight gown and other items
on the 1914 fashion card. The resolu-
tons are TO go 10 the resolutions
committee, and then be presented to-
the convention itself
Mrs. Robert j. Burdette, OF Pasa.
dena, CAL Mrs Blankenburg, wife
OF the mayor of Philadelphia. and ..lrs.
C. l. Atwood OF Minneapolis, were
some OF the women who denounced
the prevailing modes.
Now and then we see on the street
an exhibition OF a leg which has not
even the excuse of beauty OF molding
for such showing" said Mrs. Atwood.
"Frenchmen design our clothes for
the women OF the underworld" said
Mrs. Blankenburg "All the colored
ribbon in the underwear was designed
for the underworld and adopted here
by women who could afford IT,"
The clothes OF today are not con-
ceived and not designed for good
women" said Mrs Burdette II would
not say that every woman who wears
an immoral gown is immoral. be
cause there are so many who do not
know that the world is Judging them
by the clothes they wear. But per
sonally, do not like 10 see a woman
in a strong light wearing such few
clothes that her physical perfection
attracts more attention than her high
er characteristics
Mrs. Burdette took fling at gaudy
display OF jewelry French heels and
false hair
"If we always had the right dress
for the right occasion. there would be
no call for the hobble skirt she
said. There will be no call for the
Injurious French heels the vulgar
false hair, hats covered with plumes
that spell the price of virtue. or rev
els that advertise virtue for sale
because OF their desire to dress
according TO fashion. women are
breaking MP homes. running their lives
and selling their virtue. In New YORK
state statistics show that onethird
OF married mans money goes for rent,
and one-third for his wife's ward
robe
Mrs Bates. OF New York. put in a
mild plea for the prevailing modes
She told the women that often
modes absolutely nude are less sug
gestive than some partly draped.
I'VE can make our styles immoral
nv the way we wear our clothes she