ANTI-STOCKING CRUSADE.
New York, September I. Miss Palmer, a lady of wealth, who once acted with Sir Henry Irving, arrived here on the Lorraine yesterday, chid in sandals and a single garmoat fastened with a girdle. She holds that corsets, 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. "Hie corset," Mis< Palmer said, "is a physinl crime. So are lon# tight .storking-. *n-I what you hold tliem up with. If mother's would adopt this costume, tli-v would lie healthier, and their babies would grow up stronger and ljetterlo"kinjr." "Will von appear in New York society minus stockings and shoes';" an interviewer a-ked.
"I am (join;; to my mother's house jt Bar Harbor 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 tliw BQjjloTM," :m*
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 2 November 1907, Page 3
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162ANTI-STOCKING CRUSADE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 2 November 1907, Page 3
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