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THE ASHLAND DATLY TIDINGS
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i wide and sometimes narrow .
But
I try as they would they could not
1 -get the trailin g sk irts in style to
stay again. Women once freed of
1 an encum brance like th a t will never
j revert to it again of her own free
; Will.
Skirts G e| Shorter
“ It was only in recent years th a t
1 the movement got out of hand en-
, tirely, and w’ith leaps and bounds
the sk irts began to go up, up, up,
and th e re ’s no knowing w here they
will stop. I th in k the word "m od­
By LEO T. HEATLEY
esty” should be elim inated from the
(I. N. S. Staff C orrespondent)
dictionary as useless and meaning
NEW YORK, Nov 23.— The sec­ nothing to the girl or woman of to­
re t is out: Short skirts are a re­ day. I am positive th a t short skirts
form movement!
are here to stay. I only hope, in
But the original reform ers now th e interests of decency, th a t we
declare their idea was carried too ^•can come to a compromise on the
far.
'length which will at least partially
The tw enty-fith anniversary of cover the exposures now in vogue.”
the Rainy Day club was celebrated
And in the m eantim e the latest
here today, and it was disclosed th a t "fashion edict from Paris is th a t
the club was organized in the nine­ short* sk irts will be worn no longer.
ties to do away with the long, tra il­ That is to say, th at, while rem ain­
ing dresses worn by women on the ing relatively short, the short skirt
theory th a t they were unsanitary. will be no longer be worn, or at
Five or six business women wanted : least— well, anyway------ !
to abolish the fashion of sweeping
th e streets and dumping the dust
on the parlor rugs at home. And so
the short-skirt movement was born.
Mrs. A. M. Palm er, president of
the club for the last tw enty-four
PaulserucFs Suits will hear com­
years, said the little group of serious
th in k ers decided to w > ear
skirts four parisons in price, quality and fit.63tf
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inches above the ground. "W here-
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ever we appeared we were jeered
S. Mitchell.
at and hooted,” she said.
“Men
would make sly rem arks upon our
2. Medicated a ir is the only tre a t­
appearance; women in carriages
m ent for catarrh . B reathe Hyomei
looked scornfully down on us and
and obtain im m ediate relief. At Mc­
drew their own draped, trailing
Nair Èros. Money back if it fails.
sk irts more closely about them. We
were looked upon as freaks. When
Four poultry m eetings for Jack-
we entered the tenem ent districts on son county to be conducted by H.
charitable missions we were stoned E. Crosby, of the Oregon A gricultur­
by small boys. It was a dangerous al college, poultry extension special­
and hum iliating experience. Soon ist, at the dem onstration farms,
we had new members and a new club have been announced a t the county
room.
ag en t’s office. These meetings are
the new enterprise.
‘ It is the expectation of the back-
<» fs of the new project th a t the' pop­
ularity of the Bible will become more
universal through the depiction in
films of some of the many great
stories th a t it contains,” said Mr.
Vroom. “ At first two Biblical sub­
jects wiil be lim ited to two reels,
but iate.r longer films will be made.
There are 175,000 churches of
all denom inations in the United
States, and if only a comparatively
small fraction of them exhibit films
to th eir congregations it can be seen
w hat a stupendous m oral appeal can
be made to the American public.
“ It is the intention of the new
increase« as a resu lt 01 th e p roduc-. company to make th eir subjects
tlon of Biblical photoplays by a strictly undenom inational, so th at
company soon to be formed here, i they can be shown in any church
Frederic Vroom, form er Shakes- > w ithout objections from any mem-
pearian player, and for the last eight ber. No expense will be spared in
years a photoplay actor, with more m aking the films as attractive as
than 300 appearances in presenta-^ possible. At the same tim e great
tions of the largest concerns to h is r care will be exercised in m aking the
credit, is to be director-general of productions conform to th e text of
“ It will be a strict rule of "th“
company th a t everyone connected,
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with it |n any way m ust be a Chris­
tian of ‘good character. This wiil I
apply also to the actors and every
member of the producing staff.
"W hat the film subjects will be ■
Agency of Oregon Fire Relief as
expected to appeal prim arily to the
aociation. Yeo, of course.
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churches, they will also be available
for presentatidn in such of the high­
Let Friend Wife sleep in the
er class th eatres as desire to portray morning and go
to the Hotel Ashland
them. An investigation has shown grill and get
one of those fine
th a t many theatres will exhibit special CO cent
breakfasts.
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them.
“ It is my impression that the Bi­
ble films will do much to elevate the
U nusual Fam ily P.ecora.
motion picture industry as a whole.
A man astonished a friend a few
When producers find th a t these his­
days ago saying casually th a t one of
torical narratives make a winning his sisters was buried a hundred years
appeal to a larg? percentage of the a g o ! As his own age was sixty-five,
public, they wiil change the tone of r!ie case needed an explanation, which
the offerings they are now m aking.” he gave. The sister buried in 1S19 was
Mr. Vroom wyon distinction with the first of a fam ily of 22 children,
his appearances with Edwin Booth ami she d ie d 'in early infs.tjcy. The
m an was the youngest m em ber of the
and Lawrence B arrett from 188G to fam ily and was born In 1854. 85 years
1891.
He ¡became affiliated with '•T er bis sister.—Loudon Chronicle.
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M odistes Take Up Idea
“ I can't say ju st when the mod­
istes started taking up the idea we
had launched, but it was about two
years after we had begun wearing
sh o rter skirts.
Finally
society
women, who had looked askance
from their carriages, came down to
th e ground anti saw first-hand what
our movement was doing; a few of
them copied our style, and then the
modistes got busy.
.
“ We had m arshalled' statistics
proving th a t the sweeping sk irts
worn by the women carried germs
in to the home.
“ We were contented w ith the
s k irt which ju st cleared the ground
four inches. That m eant com­
fo rt and freedom for us. But when
th e modistes got busy it was differ­
ent. F irst came the six-inches-from
the-ground sk irt Then they grew
longer again. Some years they were
November 29 at 10 o’clock a. m ,
Theodore Glass’ homo at Beagle; 2
o clock p. m., Thomas G allagher’s
borne at Rogue River.
November 30, at 10 o’clock a. m.,
J. W. B irkholz’s home at Willow
Springs; 2 o’clock p. m., Carl Goet-
che’s homo at Ashland.
CARLOAD SH IPM ENT OF
Fencing
from E astern m ills ju st in. Con'
siderable drop in prices on sam e
GOOD CEDAR POSTS
New prices on im plements and re
p a irs .. New and used sewing
machines for sale or to ren t........
of the Daily Tidings will be issued Saturday, December 3.
It will contain between thirty and forty pages, and carry a
Peil's Corner
cover printed in three colors.
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It will be the largest Christmas edition ever printed in
Ashland, both in point of number of pages, circulation and
general appearance. It will be well printed and will be dis-
tributed over the entire countv.
We hope to* have one or two sections featuring the
Winter Fair, and will devote much of the space to boosting
that enterprise.
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