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NO "MILITARY STRIDE" IF YOU VALUE GRACE LESSONS FROM IRENE HOUGH'S BEAUTY BY 1DAM M'GLONE GIBSON Dame fashion has a new ally (he girl with the military stride! She has tramped right up to the firing line and captured the fort so long held by the army of the debu tant slouchers." Thq girl with the military stride and square shoulders and pointed chin, will find many followers, more'a the. pity, for girls were never intend ed to look like soldiers, though they must sometimes have the courage of the fighting man but she'll find one rebel in the camp, and that's Irene Hough, the most beautiful telephone girl in America. Miss Hough will have none of the military stride, and this is what she says about it: "The debutant slouch was horrid, but it wasn't half so bad as the new military stride the girls are practic ing. I can't understand why a girl should want to look or walk like a bold grenadier, she' so much more interesting when she acts like a girl. Soldiers are not gracetul, their mili tary tramp is fine on the parade ground or in battle march, but it's ab surd on the street. "I admire the soldier man, but I shall not imitate him Anyway, I'd rather be a girl than a soldier any day. I like to follow the new fashions, but 111 desert if I have to adopt the military stride." o o A THREAT "Your boys'were in my apple tree again yesterday," observed the first suburbanite. "If you say anything about it," de clared the second, ditto, 'IFH send you the doctor's bffl." Philadelphia Led ger. o o A Kansas squirrel stored a' cocoa nut for its winter food, probably an ticipating a rise in the price of nuts on account ol the- war. SZkn , .Irene JLsfceUe "I shall never-1 adopt-the-military strjde." '