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Swinging The Arms

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The queer habit men have of regarding women as rnysterious beings whose actions and modes of thought are quite incomprehensible was amuaingly illustrated recently by a writer who wondered, through a column and more, why women, when walking, seemed embarrassed about hov to dispose of their hands. The custom of the sex of carrying purse, card case, umbrella or other something was explained to be au effort to solve the question of what should be done vrith the hands. Most peculiar, so it was averred, and very unlike the habit of men ! It is indeed quite true that the sexes on the street manage their hands and arms after different fashions, but unlikeness in this particular is artificially produced, as the wondering writer could easily have ascertained if he had taken the trouble to investigate. Men of high and low and all intermediate grades swing their arms as they walk. That beautiful, natural and comfortable povenjent is not permitted to a woman or girl with any pretensions of good breeding. Don't swing your arms is among (he earlisst of the appalling long calendar of "dou'ts" prepared exclueively f or girls. In faot, among the very wful sins that consevvative people charge against the bicycle girl is that when off her wheel "she strides along and swings her arms. " What she should do, acoording to these censors, of course, is to glue her elbows to her sides and to take ladyliko steps. However, athletics is likeiy more and more to claim the homage of wonian and it is more than possible that ere long convention will permit her arms to swing as freely as do those of her brother, and when that time arrivés one more woman tery" wil! be

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News