Arena magazine - Volume 04 . to the studentof social movements it is not strange that Bishop Coxe shouldobject. The real oddity is that scarcely anybody else, appar-ently, has objected. That young girls from the best families should within a shorttime have betaken themselves to whirling through the publicthoroughfares, like so many bovs, is certainly a new departurefrom all old fashioned canons of feminine decorum, at least asstartling as many that have brought down all sorts of thunder-bolts from pulpit and press. Had it been a prerequisite thatan amendment to the United States Constitution,
Arena magazine - Volume 04 . to the studentof social movements it is not strange that Bishop Coxe shouldobject. The real oddity is that scarcely anybody else, appar-ently, has objected. That young girls from the best families should within a shorttime have betaken themselves to whirling through the publicthoroughfares, like so many bovs, is certainly a new departurefrom all old fashioned canons of feminine decorum, at least asstartling as many that have brought down all sorts of thunder-bolts from pulpit and press. Had it been a prerequisite thatan amendment to the United States Constitution, or even astatute of a State Legislature should be obtained, the girls woulddoubtless have had to wait many a weary year. It is not long since another church dignitary. Dr. Morgan Dix,objected to the entrance of girls into universities, because itwas not • proper for voting women to be exposed to the gaze Some of Libertysof young men, many of whom were less bent upon learning than recent amusement.^ The 8omeof Libertys recent dresses. TheGrecian Costume.
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