Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1913 — Eligibles In Danger. [ARTICLE]

Eligibles In Danger.

W. E. Hosac of the Chicago Dressmakers’ club was condemning the slashed skirt on the sedre of its suggestiveness. Relaxing for a moment from his serious vein, Mr. Hosac said: “Man, poor man, baa it hard enough on his seashore vacation as it is. If the slashed skirt is to be used against him ” “ ‘I was very much astonished,’ said one man to another, ’to hear that Blanc, the rich old bachelor, had married the Widow Starr at Atlantic City. I thought he was only flirting with her.” “‘He thought so, too,* 1 -was the reply. “And this,” said Mr. Hosac, “was in pre-slash days, mind you!"