The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-06
SILK OR COTTON
STOCKING DEBATE
League Of Nations Argument
Not in Same Glass at ALI
with This Great
Argument.
AS AID TO HAPPINESS
Divorce Case Chapter Starts Up
Consideration OF Question with
Correct Answer
Unsettled.

CHICAGO, March 6.--Silks (stock-
ings) and cottons were lined up in
battle array here today. Arguments
in the Rotter divorce suit in Detroit
that silk stockings are necessary to
a woman's happiness. appealed to
Chicago stratae like this:
Preachers wife, (Mrs. r. Keene
Ryan, Silk stockings are not neces-
sary for happiness. If our young
girls would wear cotton stockings
and lower their skirts there would
be Less trouble in this world. Silk
stockings essential--ridiculous
Probation officer (Miss Emma Nc
Guire) Its only, another queer ex-
cuse. Some women were never used
| to silk hosiery, but demand it when
they marry. Others are reasonable
LII they can't have the finery. The
educated woman who loves her home
more than herself, wouldn't offer
such excuses.
Housewife (Mrs. c. w. McHale)-
Lisle Is good enough for anyonce who
can't afford the best.
Shop girl (Miss L. Domer)-I be-
lieve silk stockings are necessary.
They give you feeling of "class"
and independence. they must be
necessary or SO many wouldn't be
doing without other ordinary gar
ments and comforts to possess them.
Settlement worker (Miss Mary Nc
silk or cotton, so far as happiness
is concerned.
! Perfectly Happy Without.
| SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, March 6.
One can be perfectly happy with
out silk stockings. according to Miss
Katherine Deery.
| She had heard about the Detroit
woman who obtained divorce be-
cause her husband forced her to
wear cotton stockings.
do you wear silk stockings, Miss
Deery?" she was asked.
| NO" she replied, II wear cotton
ones, see, and since / am working
: for living, am perfectly happy in
them"
But Miss Deery intimated that if
she were married and her husband
had $4,000, she would demand silk
stockings. too.
| Miss Deery is business agent OF
the Laundry Workers union here,
and her ankle, doubtless, is just as
shapely as the Detroit one.
Effect Upon Morale.
| WASHINGTON March 6--Pros-
pective loss of their silk stockings
couldn't keep the militant suffra-
gettes here from fighting for their
iideal-the ballot for women.
| The militants have gone to Jail
here time after time-knowing all
the while that they would be forced
| to wear the coarsest kind of prison
cloth.
"Oh, you ought to see the stock
! ings they gave u.s." conflded one
! who had been jailed here. 'They
are great big coarse cotton things
which have to be tied up with
strings"
Just Because.
| BOSTON, March 6.-Women inter
viewed here today declared without
exception that the Detroit woman who
sued for divorce on the grounds that
her husband refused to provide her
| with silk stockings, had ample reason
fer holding silk worms dearer than a
man.
1--WE must have silk stockings Just
| because" said one woman, and fe-
fused to amplify "just because"
Miss Edna W. Lzandon, an expert ON
| tilk things" was more specific.
| What powder Is to wonan's face,
silk stockings are to her ankles" she
! declared. 'Why? Well, to be frank, be-
cause men look first at a woman IS
! face and then at her feet That's one
O. the chief reasons-sounds shocking
but it's true"
A search for a woman who had some
| thing kind to say about cotton stock.
| tngs was fruit1ess. But some said they
wore them. Why? Oh, "just because"