Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
SHORT SKIRT is
DISGUSTING TO
MEN-MISS ALICE
'Lady From oklahoma Dis
cusses Styles and Cigarette
Fad and the Wife IdeaL.'
BY MILDRED MORRIS,


International News Service stan Corre-
spondent.
WASHINGTON, April 6-Alice Rob
ertson, Oklahoma's woman member of
Congress, today gave her impressions Of
1.-The cigarette smoking women Of the
East" with their rouge and knee skirts.
When 1t was suggested that they
proved "bit Of shock" to a citizen Of
the cow country, she said calmly.
You can see plenty of women in the
Southwest with rouge and skirts shorter
than they ought to be. Some of them
use even more rouge than the women in
Washington and New York The people
out there are not going to let the East
get ahead of them in anything If they
can helm 1t.
"If taa dp-to-date skirt had more
width and a little more length it would
be sensible.
~ don't call these extreme styles, with
the bodice cut too low and the skirt
too high, immoral. If they were i'm
moral they would attract the men, but
they don't. They disgust men. Women
dress that way, not to attract the men,
but to get ahead of one another.
Maybe you've noticed that it's the
women with the scrawniest necks and
legs who wear the lowest waists and
shortest skirts" observed the LADY frolJ
Oklahoma"
The first time l saw women smoking
was in New York while I was staying
at the Neal Arts Club. 1t was inter
esting. II women want to smoke, that's
their business. They don't hurt any one
l-,,k IL. Ar,F-
gushing.
Sitting back in a comfortable chair in
her Office in the capitol, Miss Alice, VINO
gives promise of being as popular in
Washington as in her home town, Nus
kogee, gave advice to wives, described
the woman lobbyist as something to be
pitied," voiced disapproval Of the League
Of Women Voters and declared the Shep
herd Towner maternity bill "bolshevistic"
in some Of its features
1.-THE wife is usually to blame when
the home is unhappy" she said May
be she cooks badly or goes around in
soiled kimono instead Of dressing up and
looking as pretty as she used to be.
"Courtship is Ike hunting or fishing
After the game is caught the zest is
gone. The woman MAKES the environment
Of the home and It's up to her to hold
the interest Of the man.
The dangerous time comes when the
man begins TO acquire money. When
he takes a trip the wife who is wise
leaves the children with some one else
and trots along with him. She keeps
mp her complexion and dresses as at
tractively as possible, so he won't go
trotting after some pretty girl on the
outside"
II represent the conservative woman
who would rather cook a good meal than
NEEDLE with politics." she said.
The average woman in the United
States wasn't interested IN politics until
she got the vote. The average woman
didn't care anything about the vote. II
she had, she'd have got it long before
she did
Il don't believe in antagonizing the
men. The League Of Woman Voters, In
effect, says that If the men who make
our laws viii not make the kind Of laws
they want, they will throw stones at
them. acting like children and call them
names"
Il am opposed to the Shepherd Towner
bill 1t has paternalistic features which
are bolshevistic and think 1t is faulty
in construction. 1t would create many
Jobs for women and give them powers
they may not be qualified to fill
Il don't want any one to think that
I'm not loyal to women. I'm a womans
woman. but now it's a $3.50 proposition
with me. l was elected to represent both
the men and women of Oklahoma"
Asked what she planned to ''do" to
her male colleagues in Congress, Miss
Alice answered with a twinkle:
We'll, l don't intend to feed them soup
or talk them to DEATH"