Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-06-16
Whera Are Thosa Troussrs7

New York Tribune: We trust that we
shall not be regarded as Off cious il we re
mind the members of the national wonian's
council that the first OF June cometh. VIVA
are the ladies of the national council doing
about their new trousers? Surely we do
not need to remind them that the executive
board of the council formally resolved at
Indianapolis last summer that all men,
bcrs OF the council should put on trousers
on the first day ofyune, 1882, and called on
all Intelligent women to follow their en-
ample. All ofthis is O matter of record and
may be found in the minutes ofthe meet
ing ofthe executive board. and we cannot
believe that the ladies of the council are
going to fail to carry out their reso! utiQns.
On the other hand, we can hear of no
special activity in the tro user trade, as there
certainly would be if any large number of
women were going 70 take up with them in
about two weeks. Wedo not observe in the
windows of dressmaking shops any large
placards reading: Amy of these trouser
iugs, $780," or Genuine imported trouser
ings. So" But this, of course, is no posi-
tive proof t~hatthousands of pairs of trous-
crs tor feminine use are n at being made up
in private. Any speculation on this sub
iect is seriously handicapped by the fact
that no one knows how many members the
national council has. The Chautauqua
ladies, later in the season, reviewed the de-
cisiGn o. the council, and a.ter giving
both actresses tights and the di-
vided skirt q full hearing. decided that
trousers were the logical and rational COM
promise and Endorsed the idea Of the copn-
Gil. We are under the suppression, how
ever, that the Ohautaugna ladies did not
promise to rush into trousers on June l,
but rather decided to wait and see how the
council got along with them. If no cas-
ualt;cs were reported by Sept. l, We be-
| lieve, the Chautauque ladies agreed to come
to the support of their sisters.
OF in q movement of this magni-
tude tbs start must naturally be slow,
Skirts, with the centuries that are behiut
them, cannot he put off in q moment. By
nothing, we presume, can stop the stead
forward march al trousers in feminine eS-
TEEN. For this, OF course, the sex Is to he
congratulated. All dress re!ormers hold
that il is skirts and skirts alone which are
responsible for any undesirable qualities
thai woman has. We should be inclined
to say that woman has no undesirable
qualiti s, but since dress reformefs are
always women we csnno dispute them.
Skirts, say these re.ormers, ruin q woman's
health and make her narrow, peeyish, jeai-
Gus, tault-tindIng and prone to attach UNI
due Importance to trites. Since the women
themselves say this there may be something
has none OF these tailings, 1t must he the
skirts. 'fake one moment and consider the
noble creature man in all his grandeur.
Originally, we sappos there was no differ
ence in the quality of mind possessed by
man and woman. But skirts have dragged
down woman and made her, US she says,
narrow and bigvted. On the other hand,
has become! What broadness of mindl
What depth o. reasoning powerl What
sublimity of aim! In fact, what a non
ment 10 trOuSer-l