A FASHION'S LAW.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1702, 19 March 1913, Page 7

A FASHION'S LAW.

NO LOW-NECK DRESSES.

AMERICAN LEGISLATOR'S PLAN Br Teleeranh—Press Association—CopyrtiM (Rec. March 18, 10 p.m.) New York, March 18. Mr. Cappel, a member of the Ohio State Houso' of Representatives, has introduced a Bill attacking what he describes as the present-day immodesty shown in! women's dress. The Bill prescribes fashions for women throughout Ohio, and under it, it is proposed to establish a commission. The limits for dccollette dresses are fixed at two inches below the neck, and it is declared unlawful to allow the skin to show through embroidery or lace-net. The members of the commission are to bo men of good moral character, over thirty years of age, and ono is to bo a clergyman. The Bill prohibits Department stores from showing undraped figures. . FREAK LEGISLATION.

SOME AMERICAN SPECIMENS. If all the freak legislation introduced bv legislators throughout the United States were passed into law, that country would be a difficult place to live in. Indi--ana has. furnished ore of the most recent samples. It is a Bill renuiring every person wishing to take a drink to take out a license. "We have personal licenses to hunt and fish, and do other things to follow out certain,occupations," said the introducer, "so why ndt a license to drink? It would be a source of heavy revenue to the counties, and all moneys derived from the sale of licenses turned over to the educational fund. Licenses could bo issued in the form of a small pocket card permit stating that the holder had been licensed to drink."

From Colorado recently came tho news that a Bill was about to ba introduced in the Legislature, of that Stnte providing that any surgeon who shall uerform an operation, for appendicitis and thereafter be unable to prove that ithe appen- ! dix was in a diseased condition, shall be | guilty of ■ malpractioe, and punishable I tinder the penal code. lowa's contribuI tion is a Bill making it unlawful for you ! to.piflt your feet on your desk—that is. if | you happen to b? a legislator. In New i Mexico a Bill was net long ago introI dueed in the New Mexico Legislature providing for the classification of bachelors and widowers, and the levying of a tax against ithem.. Bachelors between the ages j of 25 and 45 are to pay £2 2s. nnnual tax! ■ A Bill introduced in the Texas Lesrisla- | turo by Representative Vaughan, making lit a criminal offence to swear over the telephone, has already been reported favourably from tho House Committee on ! Criminal. Jurisprudence. i Of course, everybody knows about Ne- ! braiska's famous Sheet Bill. Representa- | tive Link introduced it. It is a. measure to conltrol hotel proprietors to furnish bed sheets 9 feet in length. The totitrues of the l railway station 'neents in' Missouri may be loosened if a Bill introduced jnto the Legislature of that State is passed. The, Bill provides a fine of iGC to .£l2 for any agent who refuses to answer questions put by (travellers. The author says year? of rebuffs by 'country agents, of whom he had infimred if. trains were on time, had aroused in him a lingering longing to one day get back a 'bit of his own. / . The Senate of Oregon has unanimously 1 passed a Bill requiring .'tha,t applicants for nwiTiage licenses be provided with a certificate of good health from a licensed phvsician.-

Kansas and Illinois are after bachelors ancr married men who *pow as bachelors. A Bill has bee® introduced in. the Kansas Legislature to tax bachelors over 45 yoars of age to the 'time of .£6 a year. _ State Senator Samuel A. Bttelson, of Illinois, favous the passage of a Bill to ditterentiato between married men and bachelors by conferring on bachelors somo suitable title that will indicate that they are unmarried, just as "Miss" indicates single blessedness and "Mrs." indicate the married state. _ Let us make it a felony," says the Senator, "for a married man to use a bachelor s ti'tlo. • The change will be for the good of society. It will bq a bulwal'i5 1 / 0:r tae home. It will Drofect susceptible unmarried ladies. It will abolish at one blow all the married flirts."