Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1882 — Licence in Dress. [ARTICLE]

Licence in Dress.

The following clause Was found in the will of a Yorkshire rector: “Seeing that my daughter Anne has not availed herself of my advice touching tho objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare up to the elbows, my will is that, should she continue after my death in this violation of the modesty of her sex, all the goods, chattels, money, lands, and all other things that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the eldest son of my sister Caroline. Should any one take exception to this as being too severe, I answer that license in the dress of a woman is a mark of a depraved mind."