Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-01-06
E-sez, Dec. Is, 1870.

SHORT AND LosG STREET DREssEs Gail
Hamilton writes in H1rper's Bazaar; Fly
swiftly round, ye wheels OF time, and bring the
day when society shall have settled upon some
general street dress. simple graceful, ceuyeuiont
and unohanging, and shall leave 90 indlviiasl
taste only choice Of maternal, color ald sab1rii-
nate details Then you shall not have % alter
except TO freshen
But even as things are We are vcrJ coni1rta-
be have thought, indeed, thst we were yerg-
ing toward the millennium Of dress. Barring
the excess of trimming, it scans 70 me there
never could have been a time when dress Tas
more favorable to woman than II is now. With
rubber boots and waterproof for storms, with
light. picturesque hats, with small, short skirts
aud seevei Oyer-garments, and breatn-permIt-
ting bodices and styles so various that scarcely
anything is strikingly unfe.hi0naole, what doth
hinder that s. woman should eat and drink, and
walk and he merry Newspaper people in
deed, talk Of dress reform but there shall not
reform be given them save the gradual reform I
have suggested, and that will come impercepti-
bly,, and only as we slowly gain more cultivation
and higher aud finer lifa Our dress now is
fully up to olr social life
And here come the co5tumcrs and fsunt
long skirts in cur faces once more. DO I blame
the costumers Not l. They have their living
Q
But If the women Of this country, having once
tasted the freedom Of short dresses, shall be
mean spirited enough to 20 into long ones agaia
81 the dictate 0f any cosnlmer under the san,
I they have themselves and nobody else 70 blame.
A pretty thing il will be fos them TO talk abJut
making laws, if they have not sense enough and
/ spirit to keep out Of the mud 4 fine thing 70
/ be a republican sovereign when you have not H.
dependence enough to resist the hst O. q foreign
tyrsnt IS to the cut ofyour gown For there is
no question Of thinking or not thinking about
your dress. lyu can walk just IS well With
three fOunccs as with none but long dress in
terferes with the energies, the activities, the
safety and the health Of every day. A long
drets in the street means Inconvenience, unudi-
moss. discomfort. waste. Incidence, repression,
crampei muscles, sub5riiui,ioo, aud slavery.
If women reinyest themselves intraiiing skirts
they deserve all the evils which Iasy beftl. them.
tt women reiinqu.sh their short suits, may their
husbands tyra1l.ze over them sal soasc them
forever May seTing machines De broken past
remedy. and rutfias come in like GOOD. and men
wear seven bosoms 20 one shirt. and the bosom
factories stop wo5s, AMI all the lsuniries dry
nm Nay women receive one-quavter the wages
Of men and do twice the work, and kid gloves go
up TO FIVE dollars pair, aai tear out on the
back of the hand the first time they sre put on
In short. msy women be held a subject race
when they shall have proved themselves one,
and he oppressed AM spoiled eveTmore for they
will surely deserve if they 20 back to the leeks
and onions Of Egypt after having eaten the man
IA and dusils Of the promised land
Long skirts. indeed
Badness or NEW YORK EDIToRs lis a Gu
rious fact that all the leading editors OF New
York city are bsld-headed. l have prepared the
following statement with a great deal Of care,
and YOU can rely upon its correctness
James G Bennett, Herald, excessive worship
Of the Herald.
Horace Greeley. Tribune, wearing his white
hat too long.
10 Howard, Star, that bogus Proclamation.
Msnton Marble, World, high-tonel democracy.
Charles A. Dana, sun, intense rsys OF the
Brick POmeroy, Democrat, early Pic'y and
over work
George W. Jones, Times, general aggraYatio1.
VIM. D. Prime, Journal Of Commerce, 100
much gunDy bags
know, have hair on their heads where tie wool
ought to grow.-.Ncir York Cor.
Taking Of pigs, let me end this letter with an
anesdo,e | took friend to breakfast with me
Yesterday morning at Brahant's. On the bill Of
fare found cochon d laii Now, haye many
weaknesses, but all are as nothing in comparison
with my weakness for sucking pig. | at once
said. "By ell means, We shall have sucking pig.
But called back the waiter and asked him if it
wasa real sucking pig lie said, Truly
Then | said, " A little pig?" He replied,
Surely" Again | said, a young pig p
Bu, this question foored him, and he hesi;sted
At last he confessed it was guinea pig, c0choR
a'Iade Nov, l ask ycu are you equal to
guines-pig:
Rumor has It that Baron Gerolt's youngest