Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1914 — ORIGIN OF SLIT SKERT. [ARTICLE]

ORIGIN OF SLIT SKERT.

Mother Eve with Og leaves green, Made the first dress ever seen. By the way there were but few. Who that primal dress could view; Or to judge Its proper shape, And suggest some other make; Adam could alone suggest, - But his taste was not the best Eve one morning, radiant, sweet, Came with smiles lord to meet; She a pumpkin leaf , had found, And had stitched it on her gown; Adam musing, said “I see It don’t reach below the knee, And the little apes will grin If they see your naked shin.” “That’s just like a man,” she cried; “Want a pumpkin leaf to hide All our charms, you are a brute Since you ate forbidden fruit; Once you didn’t care a jot, If I had a dress or not; Now you claim it is not right—Fdr my llmbß to be in sight “Then the apes could view my form, And you didn’t raise a storm; Now if they should only grin At my ankles, 'tis a sin; But to please you I will sew On a pumpkin leaf or two;” As she stitched she gave a Jerk, Split thq leaf, heqce the split skirt Ever since that fatal day, Many women act that way; Now a dress called peek-a-boo, Has became quite common, too; With arms bare and slitted skirt, Made so tight she can not flirt; With no covering on her crown, "When she promenades the town. ■~ r .~ If some fig leaves she would sew, And'a pumpkin leaf or two On her dress where needed most, She could of advancement boast Lei us hope six thousand years More will banish all our fears, That our women, one and all, Won’t dress like Eve before the fall.

B. H. TRIPP.