Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-02

such reckless way. It not only fits more
 closely than the masculine jersey, but it is so
 frail that it cannot be violently dragged over
 the head. It is strong enough when any
 ordinary strain to which it can be subjected
 is distributed all over it-as when very
 stout lady congresses herself with small
 iersey-but to take hold of it by the neck is
 to inevitably tear it in pieces.
 If the wearer of jersey has an available
 husband, maid or friend, she can, with pro-
 per care, be extricated from the garment
 She has merely to bend over in an attitude
 of profound reverence and to brace her hands firmly against the piano or some heavy article of furniture. The husband then seizes the extreme lower edge of the jersey, and turning it back upon itself, pulls 1t steadily and firmly over the wearer's head. If she had previously taken of her back hair and cleared away all pins and buttons that-may have been in the way, the removal of the jersey is successfully accomplished. The feat, however, inexorably demands the aid of an assistant for no woman can put her hands over her shoulders and grasp an oD- iect in the locality of the back of the waist band of her dress. All women cannot com mand the services of a devoted and muscular
 husband or friend, and 1t is to such women that the jersey becomes species of woolen nightmare.
 It may be asked why cannot the jersey be dragged downward so that the wearer can step out of it as she does out of skirt It is unnecessary to enter into any argument to show why this cannot be done, since it is known by every woman to be impossible One woman is, indeed, reported to have made the attempt while laboring under excessive excitement. She managed by herculean eff forts to get her jersey into position where 1t absolutely prevented her from walking, and
 remained eight hours in great agony, until toward morning her husband returned from a meeting of the directors of his bank, and released her.
 While ali over England, and to some ex- tent in our own land women have accepted jersey unassisted, almost any small boy could show a jersey can be taken off by it's wearer alone. The small boy has learned from the traditions handed down at boarding-schools that the knobs are designed to assist in the removal of tightly fitting undershirts. When he wishes to remove a garment of this kind, he stands with his back against the door and places the hem of the undershirt over the
 knob He then glides slowly and steadily
 into kneeling position, and by the time his
 knees have reached the floor the knob, with
 the lower edge of the undershirt still clinging
 to it, is at the line of his neck. He can then
 readily seize the garment and pull it over his
 head without tearing it, no matter how frag-
 ile it may be.
 All that women have to do is to initiate the
 small boy The door-knob is universally diff
 fused over the face of the civilized world,
 and it will pull off jerseys with as much ease are now wearing jerseys will avail themselves of door-knobs, their difficulties will be at an end, and they will be emancipated from that degrading dependence upon husbands and servants which now takes away half the charm of wearing fashionable jersey.