Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 433
ailors to make a man. At any rate, ittook the tailors of Assyria over a century tosolve the problem of the horsemens cloth-ing. Why not, said one of these workerswith the needle and shears, sew together the OF WATER- 99° ABOUT CLOTHES. edges of each division of the skirt and thusform a separate… … THE EGYPTIAN GENTLEMAN CARRIED IN A PALANQUIN THROUGH THE STREETS OF THEBES. It would seem that the advantages of thisnewly invented garment should have been im-mediately recognized — that the entire malepopulace of Assyria should have greeted it as awelcome release from the thraldom of skirts.But…
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