Important Action in Kansas Length of a Girl's Skirt Lawrence, Kan., April 7.
How short a girl's skirt must be to be a disturber of scholastic peace, and when, if ever, it comes the concern of a. school board, are questions expected to be laid before the Supreme Court. of Kansas, following the recent" action of District Judge Hugh Means in sustaining a demurrer of the Vinland, Kansas, rural school board against his jurisdiction in an action brought on behalf of Alice Hansen and Maude Buchanan, Vinland high school pupils, against the board.
Alice and Maude are 15 years. old, and both are farmers' daughters. Court action was brought by J. E. Hansen, father of Alice, when the Vinland school board, after adopting a rule requiring pupils to wear skirts three inches below the knees, decided that the skirts of Alice and Maude did not meet specifications, and expelled' them until such time as their skirts should be lowered. a On application of Mr. Hansen,. Judge Means issued a temporary order directing the school board to permit the girls to return to their studies. They did so without reservations or amendments as skirt length. Then the schoo] filed a demurrer to Judge Means' jurisdiction, which the judge upheld, and Hansen's attorney announced an appeal to the supreme court.
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