Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1911 — HUMILIATED BY HER HOBBLE [ARTICLE]

HUMILIATED BY HER HOBBLE

Garment Splits, Then Turns Into Kilt—Wllkesbarre Girl Has Tailor Arrested. j Wllkesbarre, Pa. —Twice deeply humiliated by a hobble skirt. Miss Anna Berkowltz the other day caused the arrest of George Casco, a tailor, who had sold her the skirt She declared In Alderman John F. Donohue's office that she would never wear anothar of that style. Miss Berkowltz ordered one of the latest New York patterns from Casoo. It attracted attention and she was pleased. But she grew tired tebfeg the short steps it required and started to board a street car to go borne. As she stepped vigorously upward for the high step of the car the skirt split up one side. She returned the skirt to Casco, demanded another, and got it The first day she wore it she wsa caught in a rainstorm and the skirt was transformed into something like a kilt She refused his offer of bobble skirt and Alderman Donohue gave her judgment for s2f.