Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1911 — Will It Come to This? [ARTICLE]

Will It Come to This?

With a determined air the man steps from his house and starts down street. On his head is a prodigious structure. adorned with bows of ribbon, imitatibn fruit, artificial flowers and the like. Beneath it protrudes a lot of artificial hair, arranged in puffs, coils and knots. His shirt is cut low in the neck and the bosom is perforated. He wears no coat and his shirt sleeves end at his elbows. He wears a voluminous pair of trousers, from which his ankles, clad in dropstitch silken hose, emerge and are again concealed in a pair of high-healed, glossy slippers. He gets about half a block from home when an officer stops him gnd demands the meaning of his masquer ade. “Cothes for men! Clothes for men!” he shouts, as he is dragged away to the patrol box. Later in the day his wife is summoned from a suffragette meeting to bail him out. She expresses herself forcibly on the growing tendency of men to attempt to usurp woipan’s sphere.