New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-08
FLEVdTION BY TROUSERS.

Woman is. after all, human-very human. 1t
is sad and almost discouraging TO see that after
thousands OF years Of association with the noble
creature man. woman still retains her petty
iealouses and her little revenges. These gloomy
reflections are prompted by the report from Eng
land concerning the fund started by the Princess
Of Wales for Mrs GrimwoOd, the heroine OF Mani
pur The subscriptions are coming in very slowly,
and II is freely alleged that this is because MIS-.
GrImwood is young and pretty and bids fair 70
eclipse the other women when she has hung her
nonrninr away In her darkest closet and comes
out into society. Alas that woman has nou
more benefited by her constant association with
mani
Rut IL there no excuse, or partial excuse, for
wonan2 We think that there Is, and that IL IS
evnrcssad I'm one word-slSirts. Woman is simply
hound down by sIirts-she cannot rise above
Them Skirts are unhygenic and uncomfortable
so all ess-reformers say, and, as they are al
,gavs women they ought 70 know. Skirts rum
a woman's health and make her peevish and irrl-
table They cloud her mind and make 1t I'M
possible for her TO the noble ana unselnsh
example which man is constantly eXhnplolhg 10
her So, when it is proposed to raise iuhu lor
a Young and pretty woman, her sisters, hemineu
in and made narrow and jealous by the deadly
skirt refuse to subscribe, or 10 let their husbands
subscribe But there is the dawn OF better tnlhgS
in sight. When. in less than eleven months from
now. woman puts off skirts and puts on trousers
we NAV look for her to rise TO the high plane so
long occupied by man in lonesome grandeur. True,
we nov be disappointed five look for any marked
innroyement in her for the first few months Inc
worry novelty will tend to distract her mind for
some little time She will not be able to realize
AZ first that trousers do not need the constant
attention of skirt. For weeks 1t Will DC IN
teresting TO watch her try TO hold them up "heh
going down stairs or across muddy street III
y.,u no a common thing for n woman when she
starts 10 pay for anything in store and hnds
that she bns not got her pocketbook In her hand
IN set up the cry that she has been robbed, but
nolice officers win soon learn 90 advise her t0
look IN her trousers pocket for 1t, where in most
cases II will be found. The work of dressing
after the advent Of trousers win also for some
vveels be both tircsome and vexatious; 1t will
ta,ce time and experience for women TO learn that
trousers cannot be either put on or taken of
6ycr the head Trousers, as we intimated, will
n first bc as enAaving 10 woman as skirts, but
not for long; In the space Of six months time, IL
we rightly estimate her ability, she will have
mastered them no thoroughly as has man, and
will then march onward side by side with him
IN an intellectual and physical Improvement and
advancement of the race.
One word more and we ore done-if the clergy
will allow rs the use Of the phrase for this oc-
caslon. Many newspapers, otherwise able and
carefully edited are asking when the new patterns
for wpmen's trousers are going 10 appear. We
know that the intelligent readers Of The Tribune
40 NOT need 70 be told that there viii be no pat
terms When man wants pair of trousers, does
he 90 and buy tissnepaper pattern, full of lit
tie holes and mysterious notchesp No; he goes
IN his tailor and leaves his measure-or perhaps
he goes TO a ready-made cother and buys pair
from q lot cast in common mould. SO it will
he with women though fancy that the deal
ers in ready made feminine trousers will not do
q large business-woman with her fine aesthetic
sense. will in nearly every case demand their
trousers made 90 order.