Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1910 — HOBBLE SKIRT HALTS SHIP [ARTICLE]

HOBBLE SKIRT HALTS SHIP

Impedes Progress of Wearers, One Disembarking and Other Going Aboard Liner. New York. —Two hobble skirts delayed for twenty minutes the sailing, of the Venezia of the Fabre line from South Brooklyn for Marseilles. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hoth, a newly wedded couple from Harrison, N. J., gave a reception on board for friends. At 3 o’clock, the time to cast off the lines, a Hoth guest who wore a black velvet skirt of the contracted variety, tried to descend the gangplank. She slipped and fell and her skirt became caught'. It took several minutes to liberate her. Mr. and Mrs. George Linger of Chicago, also newlyweds, were to sail. The pier is nearly a quarter of a mile long and Mrs. Linger could not walk Bwiftly. When the two reached the ship lines had been cast off and the plank drawn up. The crew lowered a ladder. a