Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1913 — Refuse to Be Clothed in Flowing Garments [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Refuse to Be Clothed in Flowing Garments

CHICAGO.— The enthusiasm of a few score husbands for the proposed "fete champetre” of the New Future association exploded with a loud bang the other day, when the husbands discovered what a “fete champetre" was. As a result, the big event, scheduled for June 20 in the First Regiment armory, has \ been called off. Mrs. Fred L. Rossbach, founder and president of the association, which aims to aid women released from the house of correction, and the other directors spent weeks on arrangements and found their husbands eager In their promises of assistance. But at the directors* meeting at the Hotel La Salle one of the women rose and told a sad story. It appears that her husband, who is not built along the lines of a gazelle, thought finally to ask what was going on. He was told the peculiar feature Of the fete would be the costumes. AH meh and women were to wear the .flowing draperies of the ancient Greeks. ■ '' , “Me!” shouted the startled hustand “Me impersonate Apollo? No.

you don’t, woman. I don’t mind the new future, but I’m dinged if I*ll dress like a shepherd in a Greek pasture Not—on —your —life. I’m still strong for your cause, but I don’t like that effect I’ll give thousands for the new future, but not one cent for any such insult to my unfortunate physique as that" And then It developed that there were other fat husbands and several thin ones who had also asserted the Independence of their sex and refused to have anything to do with the program.

In spite of the extensive arrangements already made there was noth* Ing for the women to do except tq drop the plan.

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JULIA BOTTOMLEY.