AMERICA'S “DRY” EDEN.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3376, 3 January 1920, Page 7

AMERICA'S “DRY” EDEN.

Mr Pussyfoot Johnson is counting on the support of most of the sis million legally articulate women in this country, says a Daily Mail correspondent. He paints, by request, a roseate picture of Eve triumphant in a "dry” Eden. -'More japp'les, more ' Adam fr more leaves. This last lure —of more clothes —is a serious one; our women mgcd to be made acquainted with another -and not so pleasant consequence for them of prohibition. HithcSjto they have worn what they liked, how they liked. They will not be lable to do so in a “dry” world. At least, not without running the risk of grave humiliation. To put things quite bluntly, every curve, kink, or contour that may delight us now would be but a source of suspicion to his Majesty’s prohibition law enforcement officers, ever on the alert for “bootleggers,” or carriers, illicitly, |of liquor. Women, it appears, are the prime offenders in America, being adepts at camouflaging and concealing bottled alcohol, but they are constantly caught, and, more frequently still, searched on suspicion. We men, in fact, would have to accustom ourselves to highly disconcerting moments —aye, many of our dearest illusions might be brutally dispelled—as the prohibition officers acted, on suspicion, in restaurant and theatre and on the King’s highway.