Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1911 — GIVES HOBBLE SKIRT PARTY [ARTICLE]

GIVES HOBBLE SKIRT PARTY

Hostess Makes Women Guests Try Virginia Real snd Three Fall' In Heap—-Ail Men Are Barred. New York. —Curious swains of Glenwood, L. 1., who were anxious to ses how their young women Mends would look at a hobble skirt party given by Miss Lillian Hahn were barred from the Hahn home by the hostes tt own orders. Several tried to gain admittance to the house while the party was In progress, but the hostess stationed two women at the front door, with orders to repel all attempts at entrance by any man. - Miss Hahn, who is socially prom* nent, sent out invitations to her hobble skirt party a few days ago. Shs furnished games for her guests until they had become accustomed to traveling from one side of the room to the other in their skirts. Then dancing commenced. Young men who gathered outsids the house, waiting to accompany the guests homey say they heard many a thud, accompanied by laughter. When the music of the Virginia reel was heard one youth peeped through a window and saw three young women lying on the floor in a heap.