The record-union., 1891-09-03

SAShANl
way to favor, the iverymen and horse
owners became members, James Lick
1ndorsed it, good men and courageous
tlocked to its standard, and it worked
many real and needed revolutions in San
Francisco in the matter of hill carting
and trucking, overlooking, stabling,
butchering, transportation of live stock,
cleanliness and care in dairy yards,
driving numerically, etc. To-day the
society is recognized as one of the fore
most agencies of good in the metropolis,
and all men, except the brutal are it's
friends and champions.
The influence of Bergh, the New York,
the New England, the Southern and the
Western Humane Associations has been
everywhere felt, and really pervades the
nation. Several journals are published
upon the subject, local societies up to
the thousand have been formed here and
there; wealth has given of its treasure to
foster them, and their work has been
such that really the merciful spirit has
been cultivated both by persuasion and
by fear. TO these societies and influences
we may largely attribute the greater
tenderness with which horses are treated
in America compared with their treatment
in England, as revealed by Sir Edward
Sullivan's papers on the subject
DRESS REFORM AND TIE OPPOR-
TUNTTY.
Mr.. B. 0. Flower, the accomplished
editor of the Are1lG, makes in that jour
nal the most sensible and valuable con-
tribution of the day to the question of
dress reform for women He has evil
dently studied the subject thoroughly,
and has discovered in the activities of the
day positive evidences of reform in
costumery having already set in, quietly,
but surely and determinedly.
He finds the encouraging signs that
women are soon to be emancipated from
the slavery Of present fashion systems in
the increasing demand for Greek and
other simple costumes, as made upon the
greater fashion houses in Europe. In
these the fabrics used are rich and soft,
and the designs are gratifying to the art
taste while moro healthful and comfort
able than those that are now conven-
tional.
Another encouraging sign to which he
calls attention is the education that the
American girl is receiving to be indie
pendent. This insures manifestation of
reason and common sense, and the girl
once shown the value to her physical and
mental comfort of dress reform will, he
believes, adopt it. Again, the Women's
National Council will be wise enough to
project no sudden change; reform is to be
reached by easy stages. The costumes Of
women worn in 1860 would to-day excite
the mirth of the people, and draw hoot-
ings upon the wearers. The tight cos
tunes of IS7S-SG, if worn in the sixties.
would have shocked society and have
been pronounced immodest and scandal
Gus. The enormous hustle and train of
the later eighties no woman to-day dares
to appear in.
AS fashion thus passes from one ex-
treme to another by degrees, without
shock, SO will dress reform, and so it is
doing to-day.
Still again the latitude given in the
wearing Of mountain dress, cycling robes,
bathing costumes, tennis dresses and the
like, is having decided influence with
women in the direction Of the introduce
ton for all uses of loose-fitting, light cos
tumery that does not confine the body,
Gistort the internal organism and mall
form the human trunk. Finally there is
significant innovation that means much
and which is reported by the daily pa
pers; it is the popularity among young
women of fashionable New York of the
blouse and short skirt, worn over knick-
erbocker trousers, in which they come to
breakfast and attend to outdoor duties.
slipping on a comfortable tea-gown if a
caller is announced. In short, Mr.. Flower
believes that conventionalism in dress is
being broken away from, and that this
means that the opportunity for reform to
enter in now offers.
WE haze not great deal of fifth IN the