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LAST EDITION. LAST EDITION. THE PENDULUM, AN INTERESTING SHORT LOVE STORY BY O. HENRY, IS INSIDE THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper, N. D. Cochrah, 500 South Peoria St. 1 398 Tal Mnnrna 'Vn VOL.2, NO. 260 Chicago, Saturday, Aug. 2, 1913 ONE CENT WHY DO FOOL MEN WORRY ABOUT FEW CLOTHES SOME WOMEN WEAR? Man Is the Only Animal in the Universal Zoo Who Is . Ashamed of the Form. in Which He Was Created. BY N. D. COCHRAN All- this' newspaper excitement over what- women wear will soon dio down no matter what the women wear or don't wear. Human nature is so set in its ways and habits that anything by way of change shocks and tem porarily excites. About thirty years ago, when the "Black Crook" made such a hit on the stage, it was because the chorus girls doffed their skirts and danced about the stage in tights. It was something new out of the ordinary. So it caused a rush of men to the theater to look at women's legs. But tights soon became so -common that nobody thought anything of it. And there's more exposure in any comic opera nowadays than there-was in the original "Black Crook." Nobody is shocked to see hundreds of women in their few clothes on an ocean bathing beach. But there would be a riot if one woman walked along State street in the same costume. It's common on the bathing beach, but out qf the ordinary on State street. It's common for women to wear decollette gowns at a fashionable ball, and little attention is paid to the bare-skin brigade of matrons and maids. Even women with scrawny necks get away with it. But the same costumes would attract attention on State street, because women are supposed to wear walking suits on the streets. The peekaboo waist aroused opposition from prudes when it first came out, but people soon got used to it and thought nothing of it