The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-08-23
PETTIOOATs AND PANTS.

PETTIOOATS AND PANTS.
There is . class Of women who
barely escaped being men. Mas
cuinity is apparent in their cranio-
logical structure, face, form, voice,
manners and gestures. These are
they who are the advocates Of women's
rights, who are full of "isms" from
top to toe, who talk glibly of the
philosophy of Darwin, Huxley, Spen-
Ger and the rest of the babblers on
science, so called, that have made
lunatics of possessors of atten-
uated brains. New England
has, for years past, enjoyed
the notoriety of being the wholesale
mandatory of women who insist
that man is . brute and tyrant,
who compels the sex to refrain from
intermeddling with politics and gov
eminent, and even goes so far as to
set his face against his wife wearing
breechee. One of the darling pro-
jects of the average strong-minded
female is dress reform. Most of them
fancy that angular or corpulent per-
sons do not look well in the graceful,
flowing. fascinating garments Of their
sex. They disdain he pettiooats.
Aspiring to the rights of men, these
feminine iconoclasts Of all things wish
to wear pantaloons and all the
distinguishing garments that have
hitherto been considered the sole
prerogative of the masculine gender.
In Berlin recentlya lot ofold maids.
soured, attentuated. and unwomanly,
assembled and formed what they
called "Clothing League for the
Abolition of Petticoats." A real
womanly woman protested against
the innovation, she thought petticoats
were and of right ought to be . dis
tinguishing characteristic Of the femi-
nine sex. She thought the denuncia-
ton of the petticoat as typical
Of the tyranny of man was
rather out Of place seeing
that woman invented the garment
herself. But Frau Peters, the only
sane woman in that improvised lunatic
asylum was voted down aud silenced.
The chairwoman was the presiding
genius. At her instance the men,
bers pledged themselves to discard
petticoats and wear the bifurcated
garments, to substitute a dualistic
covering for the le-limbs as well as
the arms. That means pants, coats
and jackets. And won't the staid old
city of Berlin open her eyes at the
sight of the human ducks waddling
along Inter den I Linden, for
every female is so constituted that
when she dons the bifurcated dress, she
changes her walk from the graceful,
easy carriage Of those whol wear pet
ticoats, to a staccato-like movement
that suggests there is something
wrong somewhere. The adoption of
The male costume will necessitate the
cutting of the hair, unless, indeed,
they adopt the pigtail fashion Of the
washtub Chinese. The average
German girl is not particularly re-
for beauty, and. indeed, many
Of them in their early maternity be-
gin to resemble frkins of butter rather
han anything else. We gods. Think
Of such a woman wearing pantaloons
The ready pencil Of a Cruik shank
could not do justice to the subject.
And with the adoption of the pan
saloons comes the end of romance and
marriage. The flowing drapery that
'onceals and reveals, and its circular
weep which makes beauty more
and which. since the day
shen Eve donned the garment of fig
caves, has charmed mankind and
his homage for the wearer.
But pants. Holy Moses What