TOO MUCH ALTOGETHER

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1913, Page 7

TOO MUCH ALTOGETHER

X-RAY DRESS. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) NEW YORK, 20th August. The Mayor of Portland (Oregon) has instructed the police to arrest any woman seen wearing an "X-Tay dress" in the streets. The Mayor, when requested to state what constituted an "X-ray dress," said that the necks of their dresses were too low, the slit skirts too much slit, and the sheath dresses too much sheathed. [The social purity crusade in America is being prosecuted with much vigour. A Los Angeles message recently published in the Sydney Sun Btated :—- "Speaking at the congress of the Seventh Day Adventists- the Rev. Mr. ' said if he were a Judge in Court, and a devotee of the modern style of femi-. nine dress laid a complaint against a young, man, he would charge the girl with contributing to the delinquency of the man. The speaker added that he would not only let the man go in such circumstances, but he Would even reverse the usual charge and proceed against the girl. Such cases came into Court because women had adopted the slit skirt. X-ray dresses were worn with the deliberate purpose of alluring men." A message from Chicago on the same date :— "The City Civil Service Commission will soon hold examinations for ten policewomen to guard girls' bathing beaches and playgrounds. The Commission has decided that unmarried women of generous proportions are the most desirable. Physical examinations of candidates will be carried out by a woman, trainer from the University of Chicago. Widows are not bared from competing, but they must be young and vigorous."] A man named Wiljiam Mann slipped on the pavement in Willis-street fast evening, with the result that he fractured one of his ankks. He was removed to the Hospital. Saturday's weather reminded you of that rain-coat you need. — The best house for good quality and low price it Geo, Fowlde, Ltd, Manner*-* treat— : Advt.