Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-29
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DR.. Thomas Lynch Montgomery,
the State Librarian, whose interest
ing find" among letters at the Cap
itol of one written in 1926 relative
to the admiration bestowed upon the
Dauphin county courthouse, is re-
called by readers of this column. re-
marked this morning, that the cam
paign for attentuated skirts did not
begin day before yesterday and tpas
equal rights for women were agi-
tated in this community a century
and a quarter ago. A friend re-
marked to the librarian that wo-
mans rights had been upheld by
Senator Sproul in his declaration and
that a great many men were coming
round to that way of thinking. "It's
not new," remarked the libraria.-
why women's styles and rights
were discussed right here more than
100 years ago." and then he pro-
duced the following, which had been
copied literally from an effusion
which gained much publicity here
abouts in 1894, although he care
fully refrained from giving the name
of the author, who is assumed to-
have been a well-known wit of that
day:
Fashions For Spring '94
The Aera for Women putting on the
Breeches
Motto, Liberty & Equality or the
Rights of Women"
Whilst man is so busy asserting his
rights
Shall women lie by without gaining
new lights?
Our sex have been surely restrained
long enough
To stiff prudish dress & such old
fashioned stuff.
Too long have been fettered & tram
melled, / wot
With cumbersome trains & the
Strait Petticot.
Whilst thus we lay bound in this
pitiful Plight
Men claimed to the Breeches an ex-
elusive right,
Yet should a Poor Wife dare her
Tyrant to chide,
Oh! she wears the Breeches, they
tauntingly cried.
But now we're enlightened they'll
find to their Shame,
Well have the reality not the bare
name.
No longer will Woman to Satire be
Dupe
For she is determined to figure sans
Jupe.
And once she is reused she will not
be out done
Nor stop at this one reformation
alone
For Mark Me, Proud Man, she'll not
yield thee a jot,
But soon will become cen true
Capc p11IOfta
And flourish away ere the ending of
Spring,
Sans jupe, sans culotte-in short,
sans ANYTHING.
1t may be. remarked in passing,
| that Frank NJ. Eastman, expert on
state taxation, has been spending
considerable time going over the new
golf course of the Country Club of
Harrisburg. Provided, that Mr..
Eastman takes up the game, Harris
burg golfers may as well be prepar-
ed for a thorough mastering of that
game, quite in the manner of the
writer of that authority. Eastman on
Taxation.
April 1 will have a new meaning
for people of quite a section of
Lancaster county next Monday. The
first day of the month of showers is
settling up" day when people pay
bills, close up transactions, transfer
property and attend to other busi-
ness matters and Lancaster is the
county, where the custom prevails
more than any other. Monday the
gates will come down after "a CEN
tury on the Elizabethtown pike and
on the Williamstown pike. 1t will
| int HarrichnrUnrG n hapanGn
will be able to ride from Harrisburg
into Lancaster city without paying
toll, for the first time since about
1915.
Jimmy" Cametto, the superin-
| tendent of the grounds of the new
Country Club of Harrisburg. will
shoulder a rifle instead of rake
next week. Jimmy" who is well
known to many people in this city,
who play golf, and tennis, came here
with the people who built the new
club and was annexed by the Off
GERS. 1t transpired this week that
Jimmy registered last June un-
der the draft in New Jersey. And
they have sent for him.
Captain Rex Finn, of Pittsburgh
son of Ex-senator William Finn
of Pittsburgh, stopped off here yes
| terday on his way back to Camp
Meade. He was called home by the
birth of William Finn, jf., who will
bear the name of a grandfather
noted in Keystone State political af-
fairs for years. 1t happens that
Senator Finn has three sons in the
Army. Captain Finn went in first
The others are in France and he
is still held in this country, which
must be rather arduous in view OF
the fighting proclivities of the fam
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