ANTI STOCKING CRUSADE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8960, 28 October 1907, Page 1

ANTI STOCKING CRUSADE.

Miss Palmer, a lady of wealth, who once acted with Sir Henry Irving, arrived at New York from Europe recently, clad in sandals, and a single garment fastened with a girdle. She holds (says the correspondent of the Daily Mail) that corsets, stockings, and underclothing are detrimental to health. She is convinced .that the age of reason will soon dawn, when the world will go back to the tunic and sandals. “The corset,” Miss Palmer said, “is a physical crime. So are long tight stockings, and what you hold them up with. If mothers would adopt this costume they would be healthier, and their babies would grow up stronger and better-looking.” “Will you s appear fin New York society minus stockings and shoes?” an interviewer asked. “I am going to my mother’s'house at Bar Harbour to-day. If her house parties do not like my get-up they will have to be shocked. I shall tell them that no hosiery is not any worse than no gloves. ’ ’