A TREASONABLE SKIRT.
Berlin, May 12,
Fraulien Hollda, the daughter of the local magistrate of Gross-Buttyn, a Roumanian town in Hungary, was arrested yesterday in the street for wearing a yellow and red-striped silk skirt.
The police officials stated that they had orders to remove on the spot anything publicly displayed bearing the Roumanian colours—yellow and red—and requested the young lady to take her skirt off there and then. Fraalieu Hollda indignantly refused, and the crowd which gathered took her part so energetically that the police were glad to accept the compromise that they should escort Fraulien Hollda to her father’s house. Thou the offending skirt was removed in private, and then confiscated by the guardians of public order.
The Vienna papers affect to make merry over this instance of Hungarian Chauvinism run mad, hut during the recent carnival a young lady was arrested at Innsbruck for appearing at ft costume ball in the Italian colours, on the ground that this mounted to an Lredeutist demonstration,
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8858, 8 July 1907, Page 4
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166A TREASONABLE SKIRT. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8858, 8 July 1907, Page 4
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