The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-04-10
THE DAILY BULLETIN: THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 10 1879

ity of men and women deserve this severe
reproachl Is the majority led captive by
Fashions thrall2 answer unhesitatingly,
no The hard-working plodding, bread
earners predominant largely, all over the
world.-mcn and women alike-and is it OF
these she writes so bitterly
Are these the mothers who
will not nurse their babes for
Fashions sweet sakel Let US hope she
meant only the few, the very few, indeed,
among mothers who will not nurse their
pabes-not the majority of mothers.
Is Beatrice" altogether consistent when
She cries aloud, "If women would only re-
allze that there is an abundance for them
10 90 without contendng for the fright of
suffrage" IN making war against this gi-
gantic and almost omnipotent tyrant Fash
ionf' etc. Does she not know, this "Beat
rice of ours, that the very women who
clamor the loudest and strive the hardest
for woman suffrage are, also, the very wo
men who not only DEMAND, but practically
and in their own proper persons DISPLAY on
our streets, the coveted short dresses. Who,
but these very women, have brought about
and established the Dress. Reform move
ment here as clsewhere2 Who first discarded
the heavy petticoat-that quilted abom-
ination ofour mothers, that pulled the very
litetorces out Of them, worn as they wove it,
tied above the hips, crushing in the yielding
ribs and playing havoc generally, but the
much.snubbed womans' Fighter To whom
is Beatrice indebted for the health-giv.
ING, thick-soled, low, broad heeled, COM
Portable leather shoe? To whom for the
case-giving shoulder-suspcnders and stock
ingsupporters! Who did away with that
spinc-heating, shoulder-fre freezing abomina-
ton, the chcmise, and made the evenly dis
persed, comtort-giv Shimaloon fixed
fact Who pray, has talked and written
the very corset that Beatrice justly an.
athcmatiscs, so strongly, q thing of the past
"A horrid dream. that was, alas, as too
many high shouldered women too plainly
attest, not all dream? To whom, indeed,
if not to our "sirong.mndcd women" in
the strongest sense OF the sentence, so often
thrown as a sur at the identical women
whose lives are devoted to and whose indi-
vidualities are Unidentified with eyery re-
form, as yet, made in dress
Graphing with the realities of exis-
tencc" is exactly what our mothers and our
daughters-the majority Of them-are do.
Ing to-day. II is the dreamer who sees
through glasses Of their own smoking that
can think otherwise. To say that there
was flavor of bitterness that might lead
one to suppose the writer little more
given to censurc than to generosity, would,
think. excuse much that appears to me,
over-drawn in her article would give my
new spring hat-the one am to have, I
mean to know just how this modern
Beatrice spends her timc--how she
dresses her hair and her person what
training She gives to her daughters and
sons--if she have any-and how her
mothers household was ordered Can
you not, Mr. Editor, help me to this know-
edge! Or cannot the fair Beatrice her
self be induced to give Us a few hints
about her practice in these things Of which
she gives us 50 many preceptsi 1t is so
easy to preach; so terribly hard to teach, by
example. Yours and hers most respect.
fully, Practical,