The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-04-25
OFF AT THE KNEES.
The New Style Of Gents Pants
Which Will be Worn by
the Tony Young Men
of Sedalia.
Who Will Appear IN Them, and
How They Will Look.

The advent of Oscar Wilde i'm this
country has marveleusy affected the upper
tendon of society. This young man, at
whom paragraphists have have shot their
wit who has been made the butt and tar.
get fer ridicule in every paper in the land,
from the great and mighty metropolitan
journals down to the poorly printed and
worse edited four by six country weekly,
has calmly pursued the even tenor of his
way, and also the coveted dollar, teaching
his ideas upon art and stamping his in
Huence upon those who would shine, even
in borrowed plumage, as dilletanti or art
connoisseurs.
THERE Is PERFECT MANIA
for sunflowers and lilies, and our bellies
vot;on before emblens of the aesthetic
with the long hair and cockney drawl.
Churches have caught the infection. and
oscar Wilde" sociables are cunningly de-
vised to rope in the unawary potsesser of
few spare dimes. To these cute schemes
the apostle of the beautiful has proven q
veritable fall of mama or smitten rock
in the dry desert.
And now it has come to the ears of q
BAzoo reporter that the young gentlemen
of Sedalia have Caught on" and do not
propose to get cleft" in their devoirs to
the too utterly too beyond.
1T Is BOLD MOVE,
but with Spartan courage and Roman
valer these disciples have determined to
adopt the abbreviated pants which are
so effectively worn BY the master rs he
scars away with his audiences up to the
heights and glorified cerulean pinnacle OF
Olympus.
When the intimation Of this novel style
was first heard by the too too young man
of the BAZoo, he gave little credence to it,
1t was impossible, he unused, and cast the
hint away as only rubbish. But with the
average society gent all things are possible
and the hint grew to fixed fact
Here, then, was opened up wide field
for anatatomical study. and play of the
Imagination. There is also presented an
opportunity for rendering decided kind
ness to the patrons of tbs newest fashion
by pen picture of each of them, upon
which their lady friends may look and
locking, prepare against any sudden shock
or unpleasant drawing-room scene, when
they are called on the first time by q wear.
er of the plucked-too-soon breeches.
10 Sdlu thcSc poIuditS Has cOSt no Hulk
time or trouble. Some of the "views' were
obtained under peculiar circumstances
while the attempt to catch others was at.
tended with no little danger to the artist.
But there was more than idle curiosity
urging the reporter on to the work. A
base Islander had been uttered, to the effee,
that the young men of to-day were far from
possessing the attractiveness of physique
which was the boast Of the young man o.
the days of Washington and Louis Phil
lipe. To refute this libel
WAS HIS INTENSE LONGING
and inspiring ambition. That it is base
less Islander. the reporter is now we'll salts
fed, and he cbeerfully lays the result o
his secret search before the people now OF
earth.
1t NAV be we'll to state tina
this style will not be adopted a
once, not before the weather becomes NOR