The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-27

scently bathing suit agitation is not
the suit, but the agitation. 1t is not
the fact that while in the water men
and women should be as free from
restricting clothing as possible, that
is agitating some of the less liberal
minded people, but the fact that people
are comfortable and happy while at
tired properly for the water, that is
the chief point of those who criticise
bathers. They desire to take away
the opportunity for all pleasure. They
are, all too frequently, obsessed with
the idea that pleasure and enjoyment
in themselves are wicked, and they do
not take the real facts and circum-
stances into consideration.
1t is, as the writer of the commune
cation says, not that there may be
few immoral people at the beaches
or on the streets, they are everywhere
in this rather mixed up world of ours,
but that people of sound sense con-
duct themselves properly in whatever
attire they may find convenient and
safe at the beaches. We even have
scriptural authority that the supposed
ly bad and the supposedly good are not
to be entirely separated, for there are
tares sown among the wheat only to
be separated at the final harvest. We
therefore are to be with those whose
standards do not measure up to our
own, but not of them.
The Herald again says, and it is pre-
pared to drop the subject, that it fears
the agitation much more than it fears
that any permanent evil will come
from the wearing of such bathing suits
as are said to be used at the beaches
near Miami. One good woman pre-
sents very fine reasoning on the point
and she doubtless has many sisters
who are of the same mind, but who
have not the courage to voice their
convictions as she has done. Nothing
should be done to implant the thought
of evil in the minds of the young, and
this agitation is doing that very thing,
in the view of The Herald.-Miami
Herald.
We Take Up the Bathing Suit in a
Really Serious Way
| sometimes think the reason danes
austere
Rise in their wrath and climb up on
their ear
When they descry one-piece bathing
suit
May be because their underpinning
queer. -Autolycus.
And speaking of the bathing suit. |
which has been mentioned in these
and other columns before, the analysis
If the completes Of the people who |
nave raised the question presents |
very pretty piece of investigation for
hose analytically inclined. Among
which, we are free to remark, we are
me.
First, let us consider the One-piece
bathing suit as such. It is a smallish
voolen garment. with or without a
short skirt of about six inches in
width attached near the lower end,
which it has become more and more
he tendency of the female of the
species to don preparatory to going
n swimming. We can trace its de-
from an earlier species,
ust as we can trace the development
# the modern horse from the earlier
vetoed eohippus, caused, as all such
not by ethics or by resolu
ion drawn up by the Ladies' Auxiliary
# the League to Promote Evolution,
,H by the increasing demands Of
environment and by the struggle for
existence.
The little eohippus, you will remem.
yer, or rather, you won't remember
tut you have read, used to be tiny
hing skipping about on his five toes
,ver the early pleistocene rocks or
hereabouts. And because even in
hose days a little speed was neces-
;ary to beat the high cost of living,
he little eohippus, instead of taking
O his, heels. took to his toes and
hose of him who the longer and
stronger toes to take to heels and
he rest died of shock when they saw
he butchers bill. And by depending
IN the middle toe and developing 1t
md out running the weaker variety
Who hadn't such strong toes and there
'oro hnipc chosen nv females 3S the /