Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1914 — Chesterton’s Query. [ARTICLE]

Chesterton’s Query.

Commenting on John Galsworthy’s recent arraignment of parliament for sins of omission and commission, in which the author decried the importation into England of the plumage of birds “to decorate our gentlewomen.” G. K. Chesterton says: “This is a real wrong and a scandal, f am against gentlewomen being decorated. They have their rouge and their hair dye. Why cannot they be content'to be disguised?”