Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1913 — Diserimination in Favor of Women, Says Witness [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Diserimination in Favor of Women, Says Witness

HOUSTON, TEX. "Land sakes alive! Ain’t we men folks got no right at all?” said a bystander who watched the proceeding. “All day long fair damsels parade the downtown streets in flaming sunlight and flimsy gowns and it don’t take no Solomon to understand why they are so attractive. No one complains. They may slash their skirts as they wish and yet Just because one poor, exuberant mortal of man only took off his hat, coat, shirt, necktie and undersh—no, he didn’t quite get it off—women were ptartled, men ran around in circles and the poor gink was thrown In-

to a cell at the police station, charged with intoxication!’’ The poor man strolled along Congress avenue about 8 o’clock to take a look at the crowd that had gathered to watch the downtown fire. He stopped at several places along the way. When he reached Main and Congress he tilted himself forward' and backward on the curbstone. “Now look,” he said. Some wcmen pushed into the crowd just then and looked. The man tossed his hat into the gutter, then his coat, yankfefl off his necktie and collar and shirt any one could stop him. Policeman Altofer was close at hand. The men in the crowd put the man’s clothes on him, but had a hard time keeping them on. Policeman Altofer tried to lead the man to the police station, but it was like carrying a bundle of lath. No one happened to have a barrel 1 handy, so the roliceman put the prisoner into the next best thing, the patrol wagon, and took him away.