WHY WE OPPOSE POCKETS FOR WOMEN.
1. Because pockets are not a natural right. 2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did, they would have them. 3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them. 4. Because women are expected to carry enough things as it is without the additional burden of pockets. 5. Because it would make dissension between husband and wife as to whose pockets were to be filled. 6. Because it would destroy man’s chivalry toward woman if he did not have to carry all her things in his pockets. 7. Because men are men and women are women. We must not fly in the face of nature. 8. Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco, pipes, whisky flasks, chewing-gum, and compromising letters. We see no reason to suppose that women would use them more wisely.—“ New York Tribune.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 237, 18 March 1915, Page 15
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