Daily Republican., 1885-04-14
THE MEN's RIGHTS sOcIETY.

The organization Of the Boston Mems
Rights Society" Ii the first step toward
the emancipation of man. For genera.
lions false public sentiment has de-
prived men of skirts and compelled
them to wear that badge of servitude,
trousers. SO long as men can be made
TO wear trousers they will continue To be
tho abject.sex. The physical deteriora.
tlon OF civilized man, which has been
bewailed by all thoughtful persons and
attributed to a variety of causes mot one
OF which has really had anything to do
With the matter, is the result of wearing
trousers. Ii man is TO rival the robust
British matron or the sinewy New
England school;nistress he must be per.
mitted TO wear skirts, and the Boston
Mems Rights Society" Ia formed to
begin an agitation in behalf Of mans
emancipation from trousers, the
triumph OF which though it may be long
delayed, Is morally certain.
Trousers are entirely incompatible
with health. They afford the male
legs no adequate protection from the
elements. A woman when driving in
q carriage on a cold day, can fold her
skirts about her in q way to greatly
increase the warmth Of her person, but
man has no way Of folding his trousers
80 as TO increase their protective power.
In rainy weather, a mans water. proof
coat andIumbre!la afford him no pro.
lection below the knees. The rain
drives against the lower part Of his
trousers and renders them thoroughly
wet, and, as they At closely to his per.
SOD. wet trousers naturally chill the
wearer. The result, especially when
q man Is compelled 10 wear wet trousers
for several hours is frequently illness
Of a more or less serious character.
A woman, on the contrary, finds her
skirts an admirable protec ion against
rain. She wears three or four skirts al
the same time, and, owing TO the fen
ders In the shape of drcss improvers"
and other like devices which she wears
under her skirts, the latter do not habitu.
ally touch her ankles. Thus the wet.
ting of one or two skirts does not pro-
duce any sensation of dainpness In the
region Of the stockings, and the wearer
Is not subjected to the danger of taking
cold. Moreover, a woman whose outer
skirts are damp can always turn them
up and dry them with the aid of q crate
fire, n process which cannot be applied
to trousers. If our women would only
try to walk in wet weather with no pro-
lection for their ankles except ordiI AIRY
trousers, they would wonder how men
have ever been willing to wear such
useless and dangerous garments.
In muddy weather trousers become
not only dangerous to health hut re-
voltinR to persons with any sense OF
decency. The mud not only sprinkles
the interior Of tho trousers, but it
plasters tho interior of them to the
height of at least three inches from the
top Of the leg. A woman in muddy
weather can lift up her skirts and
keep them out of the mud, but no man
can lift up his trousers. The only
thing he can do is to turn up the bot.
toms OF them-a practice which not
only gives well.dressed man the ap'
knees, but which converts the bottom.
| OF tronser legs into reservoirs for the
accumulation of mud and water.
One has but to contrast the appear.
ance Of woman walking briskily over
q muddy pavement, with her skirts
gracefully held up out Of the mud by
one hand, and that Of a man stolidly
stridiDg along with his trousers, from
the knees downward, spattered and
splashed with mud, and his stock.
ings-Could they be seen-in even q
worse plight. 1t is no wonder that ouI
young men are feeble, thin legged and
nnrrow-chested. The wonder is .that
the fatal trousers has not long. since
extirpated the race.
Aside from considerations of health,
man Is handicapped In the race % lif'
by his trousers. How many things doe,
| a man drop and lose in the course OF !;
year in consequence of the fact that h
has no lap in which to hold them. A
| woman, by spreading out her skirts
can give herself a lap capacity of full.
two bushels, but man cannot hold |
single grain Of corn in his lsp. Tn
trousers although tEey may be provided
with three or four pockets, have yer,
1ittle carrying capacity, since there i
very little room between the inner sur
face OF the trousers and the QUITE
surface OF tho wearer whereas, wo
mans pocket is of almost unlimite,
capacity, and In some cases-as Gus
tom House searchers can ttstify-ha
been known to contain articles snffi
cient in quantity to fill large size'
Saratoga trunk.
| Were man 10 wear skirts he co1lt
cary u weeks change OF clothing ant
toilet articles In his pocket and make
trip to Washington or Chicago wit
absolutely nothing in his handa; where
as, In consequence of wearing trousers
he cannot leave home for n single nigh
without loading himself down with
bag.
Women have hitherto monopolize,
skirts from purely selfish motives, bu
they cannot forever deprive men q
them. II we are 10 be healthy, and Il
q condition TO fight the battle Of lif
untrammeled, We must cast trousers
tho winds and put on skirts.
The Pay OF Eulistcd aien,