The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-18
GIRLS IN kNIckERBocKERs.
Fair Feminintty Insists on Sometimes
Wearing Its Brothers Clothes.

Fair Femlnintty Insists on sometimes
Wearing Its Brothers Clothes.
Ever since Eve put women into sub
lection and petticoats they have been
kicking Some of their kicks the world
has heard of, such as Miss Joan of Arc,
who insisted on being Mr.. Joan of Arc
and wearing the trousers, which women
think are the materialized form of u
mans privileges. Several of these cases
the world knows of and others IL sus-
poets. IL knows very well-though, of
course. IL doesn't introduce the subject
when drinking n cup of tea with a fair
onc-that girls often dress in their
brothers clothes In the nineteenth
ceutury to dress in ones brothers
clothes is to be dress re-
former, and where Maiden Auntie
used TO "pooh-pooh" and blush
in her Gx4 handkerchief she
now seeks the privacy of her maiden
apartments and revels in the freedom
of--.she calls them knickerbockers
Eva is Eve nineteenth centuryfed, is
up to date, and has all the modern i'm
provements. She, of course, added the
wearing Of trousers TO the repertoire of
morning she told me all about it. Ellis
mistress was in, said the lacl<ey, with
"a smile made up of the recollection of
past tips and the anticipation of tips to
come.
my dear" said Eva, rushing up un-
Til the scent of the white lilac upon me
mingled with that of the violet upon
her, ~ was just thinking about you
Eva has such an orderly way of think
ing) and | want to tell you something.
How do you like my dre.s?"
Eva was gowned very becomingly.
She knew the trick-just learned by us
women the other day-of expanding all
the dressmaker's art upon the skirt and
letting the bodice take care of itself.
The lines of beauty below the waist re-
vealed themselves equally in action or
repose, and Eva was just such a Senti-
ent being as the correct Gostumer loves
to turn out. An edge of fur round the
skirt rested bewitchinglf on the top of
her tiny shoes, that peeped out and out,
not unlike the mice the poet talked
about. A dainty pink silk blouse waist,
that low fell at the throat, though
slightly bound in by linen collar, com
pleted the toilet. Linen cuffs stood out
from the wrist, and showed warm,
rounded arm. Eva had lost her hair,
by love or fever, and it had come in
with every hair having a contrary"
opinion of its own.
Now" said this charming young
damsel, rest you, my love, and drink
e ahn In
a minute"
"Halloo!" cried /, in establishment,
moment after, "Where did Eva get
the new buttons? And bless me, he's
pretty enough to fall in love with"
The new buttons was crossing the
drawing-room. Such n buttons! Such
n boy! "What card for Eva; all her
girl friends will die to visit her often,
and how that boy will be made love
to-" thought, as he came nearer. He
was arrayed in the richest of coffee
brown plush knickerbockers, embroid-
cred up the sides with bright-colored
silks, and finished at the knees with
bows of ribbons. Brown silk
stockings continued from there
down, and were finished with
daintily made shoes that some
how looked bit effeminate
Travelling up again there was an ex-
ceedingly girlish waist of plush silk,
finished with white linen cuffs and coll
lars and n brown velvet toquc crown
ing mass of-shades OF our grand
mothers, il was Eva's self
NOW, my dear" said Eva, sitting
Il a hn, Al
she had done SO from time immemorial,
don't get hysterical. You see, dear
est, | always liked boys clothes, and
came TO the conclusion some time ago
that there was no reason why |
SHOULDN'T enjoy myself by myself in
the way myself most enjoyed. If the
Lord had intended us to be dressed in
one piece, as we have been enormously
ever since the creation, He wouldn't
have made us liz two pieces don't ,Ou
see--l read, loaf, ! receive my ri
friends live in the bosom of my fam %,
in all the glorious freedom of llnickc,.
bockcrs; and, when somebody comes in
whom | don't know or whom | don't
trust, that skirt You saw is put on in
an instant, and am once more 'cabined,
cribbed, confined, bound in"
but, Eva" said l. weakly, "what
about your lover" Good gracious"
she screamed "thero is Harry. Let
me get out of here before he sees me;
wouldn't, oh, l wouldn't for worlds
that he should know about this" And
cat dashed the pretty boy, coming
back almost instantly, arrayed IN the
becoming privacy of her skirts, and
with no traces of the late outburst ex-
cept lovely, guilty blush upon her