The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-07
WOMEN IN Open REVOLT
Mrs. Cleveland Heading a Move
ment Against the Apotheosis
Of Anglomaniacs.
A Distinct Revival of the Spirit
of America Promised
for Lent.
Proposition to Uniform C~haperones-
Trousseau of a Vanderbilt Bride
Dress of Working Girls.
Especial Correspondence of n INDEPENDENT.

ISpecial Correspondence OF HE INDEPENDENT.
New York, Feb. 4.-There Isl little move
ment in New York which may we'll DC
watched for developments. Miss Jane
Meade WEIGH, a bright, interesting and in
every way scholarly woman from Buffalo, is
about to begin a series of lectures on Amer
lean history under distinguished patronage
The announcement seems simple. unbur'
dened with Lent is at hand,
and we are all going to fight n by az
tendance. on classes of description and
another, or by a fervid devotion to fashion,
able philanthropies. But hear further;
Miss WEIGH is the special protege'o OF Mrs
Cleveland, who has brought her to the CITY,
md who ia giving receptions in her honor,
introducing her widely n lending all the
strength of her influence to get her a hear
ing; who is making Miss Welch's cause, In
fact, her veryeown. Does the point yet be-
gin to sharpen itself into distinctness be-
fore your mental vision?
What would you say to the suggestion OF
!, n organized revolt against Anglomanla
and a determined revival of Americanism
Gould anything be more popular. could any
social excitation have a more powerfullead-
ar than the Young and beautiful wife of the
ex-presidcnt. and il there in the whole
range of action any movement 70 wnicn
Mrs, Cleveland could possibly lend herself
that would SO nightly increase her popu-
larity? mr..
Cleveland carries the day; a breathing into
yjrile and vigorous life of our IN
terest in our own country. American MS
tory is to be studied, Anne lean songs to be
sung, American fabrics to be worn, Amerl-
w - A. -~A n~0V IYf0rnIIN- n
bv no means figuratively. The Eng
iish Language is NO longer to be
spoken with a vile cockney accent.
andUAmerican girls are to be dissuaded
against finging their lives and their
fortunes at the feet of real 1--we prohlgate
lords. The time is ripe tor JUST TINS, ana
the plans have been LAID very quietly. They
viii be carried into effect with the utmost
discretion, without anything suggestive OF
the blowing of ttumpets or the marSnailng
of hosts to battle. We shall feel only the
mildest agitation, but. supposing Mrs.
Cleveland to be the gentle diplomat Tor
whom she is taken, we shall wake presently
to find it the proper thing to be patriotic
and to be proud of our birthright in the
land Of liberty. Is not this a Lent worth
looking forward to?
Mrs. Cleveland is as wise as she is talr to
see. Considering the chances OF 1872, is 1t
not fortunate for Mr.. Cleveland that he has
d W1lc uROA WLOu No"A
Woman's Skirts and Her Figure.
Mrs, Jenness Miller and her c%o-laborers
who nave been teaching US SO enthusiastic
ally grace of body and of gowns may as
we'll remit their exertions, for now comes
the latest and most learned p~hysiculturist
to assure US on his word of honor that the
possession of a perfect figure is we'll nigh,
perhaps quite, impossible without a woman.
Eerved by the courage that is born OF des-
speration, casts off skirts entirely. No use
to speak to him of unseen. divided COM
promises. Prof. Checkley, to whose classes
lock fashionable maid and matrons. and
whose methods there is talk of the New
York Academy of Medicines indorsing. was
telling me this morning that the unfelt. I'M
snotf6ed influence of long draperles Is some
aAhine to which nobody has ever yet paid
adequate attention.
qsYou. can't get, he says, a m to turn
dtNt her toes. Women toe in or else they
set the feet straight, parallel with the dl-
,~rection in which they are walking. A
woman who toes out properly, that is at an
,angIe'of sixty degrees, is many times rarer
than white crow. Tn habitual turning
in OF the toes cramps the pelvls and tends
to knock kneedness. and by what IS 1t
caused? By skirt wearing, by the constant,
gentle pressure of draperles against the
limbs. All motion tends to take the direc-
ton of least resistance, ana, without tine
constant intervention of the Will the rect
are influenced insensibly by the skirts
touch; they form the habit Of turning away
from it, 80 planting themselves that it will
not interfere with them. that is toeing in.
This is scientific, but as matters stand with
us what can we do except,
''Submit. submit;
IT'S common sense. and mother wit
Can find no better word thanit;
Submit. submit