The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-01
SHE WEARS TROUSERS
4 California Woman and Her Curious
Fashion Of Attire.
Her Husband Complained That Her
Clothes Cost Too Much and She
Resolved Never to Wear a
Skirt Again.
From the san rrancisco Chronicle.

Aotns wa tue III uUDut tnTtt tltifS
back ?" asked a dusty stranger. as he
drove into San Pablo yesterday.
"There are lots of ranches three miles
back" answered a resident.
"Well, Ill tell you what happened to me
and maybe you'll know the place. l was
driving along about u mile this side OF
Pinole m l saw somebody in a blue
jumper s~hoveling just inside the fence by
the roadside. He didn't pay any atten-
ton to me and landed a shovelful OF dirt
right in front of my horse. The horse
reared back, and as soon as he got quiet /
started in TO curse the shoveler. He did
Mt pay any attention to that and l got out
TO lick him. Well, i didn't do IL. That
fellow just looked into my face, and IL II
wasn't a woman I'll eat "A house and lot.
h wore trousers and "a jumper and a
mans hat, and she was spading up the
soil in great shape; but her long hair was
flying about her head and her face was as
placid as any grandmother you ever met.
"She wasn't a prize beauty by any
means, but-well, you can fancy how a
fellow would feel after swearing aud
jumping out OF a buggy To lick a woman"
"Oh. that was Mrs. Krciger. She al
Ways dresses that way said the resident.
II thought everybody in these parts knew
her."
Mrs. Kreiger has lived on a ranch on
the San Pablo road for over Is years, and
during that time she has never worn the
ordinary apparel OF woman. So accIs-
toned have the people of that vicinity
become 10 her and her strange dress that
they no longer notice il.
Still, Mrs. kreiger is no woman's rights
apostle, nor adyocate of dress REFORM Ii
is doubtful n she eyer even heard of Mrs
| Jenness Miller or Mrs. Bloomer. and n
you mentioned Lady Habbcrton or the d.
| yided skirt To her She would not kno~,
what Won were talking about.
Up 10 Is wears ago Mrs. Kreiper wore
| skirts and dresses like any other az her
sex. Indeed. II appears thai she had more
of them. and that they were of more
varied forms. texIures and colors than
are usually nossessed Inv con,uon far
mers' wives. ;"
II was shortly before tho cbapge I'm bcr
manner ~ dress;ng ,ha, sha ,narriod
William X reioer. a Thrifty German farn,ar
and a widowers and wenf 10 live with hin,
ON the ranch.
For n while there was absoIute peaca
and concord between them. hut n d,d moi
Iast. Mrs Kra;oer hal ;,s, ia;j in nar
u,;n,.r,s snnnI, at.a.m ahna
and d;nn.r tn;iettas mn, ~ ,nan 49,
dncLs ~ ur,n,ors and nra,,,, - az
GronS had nat haon an Tho, mich, h.r.
haen nota,oas had ,nna ,inu,, az a;nh,h
~ a.an, = nn,,nd III. n o. e,snniin,
ba.a" pou NJ" ~ n DIP
&C., nar la ~, ~ roind 'o p p SIC yaDu, mfcr
red sill and n neaaSraan Sami'aniia, To- mr
s13 dill not shake Inn hut r,han one &c, Co.
an other The acconn,s tor ,.iiau, nai;on
hiue u,ngham and o,h.s ,or.ns -
vanity anil nr;Io were rondar.6 ho Looan
To grow gloomy and ,aciturn' IN Lose h;s
appetite and sieep uneasiiy. But II was
not unti, Tie r.,,rns frn,o ,ba :, ;I;,n.s
aver giving Tho ,r;ce 20 ,hrao snr;n,
| chicLans for m I,rlino ~ 4, honna, anJ
whole sack of t,Irnins for n n,ere snot ~ =
straw hat with some rihhons anil o,har
fxinps on il. he ventured IN oxnos,nIata
Het oid how The Mrs Kr;eoer that had
been had wor, the same %cai;co ,irass f"n
Sunday two wears and how tho s,na
Jrass lad saryed as saconI TO-, e.. ILL
snace' and then lasted M Iaas, y ILL., ,; i
ta work i'm. and thai there was even ,hnn
anou,h 40 ,n.L. nyar e. AZ l;,,ia ..;ui
He noin,ed an, how, The a.. H.;
heen wore the same hat sha Id me-, ~
n,arr;.d nor d,r;nu ali ,hc ,aars 20 49,.
wedde,I I;fe and never Sraa,haJ III
mand for another.
Mrs. Krciger Stood il m.eklv for awhile
Then shs hinzed ont aud d.cIaraJ In;
since ha was go s,inav aho,, !, sha a,a, ,a
no, s;vo I'm, onv -. nha,s "oea
niaiS aham, her ,r.s"as 1rhan - Ill.
n dreadfuI VOW meyer 10 waar dr'.sas
asain' W." ~ " "''e'
sanL she b,s,,,
The hr;,h,.hnsd c,rm.,,s I'M ,aoLoa
49, n, Is n., sni ,ha.
IT,. Z r;a,ara arn iii .g rfg...
have Inc r,nch 20 IN ~ In iney
m,onev in hann More wha L"au, ,han,
saw tI,t x re;aer Is worth AZ Least sn mn
NJ III $500.
LIZ, hn.se .n% hpiaJ VI I, sears nus
mems aar,nan,s uar nsnaI cns,n,n ~
Incl ..i"nnn.r,, md a na;r 20 har h na
hanS,s a,nrp.a,,, "' ""'
Sha ~ not $500 anJ ,.o.Is q, an. AL,
Ill az H.. h. III hILu
49, n,,a =, in soa;a,u ,nu nn a.ny s ~
ia rather r.,irine Shn Ia. naw ~