The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-08-13
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Something About the Latest Man.
nish Fad In Feminine Attire.
Suspenders are becoming more
and more in evidence on the shoul-
ders of women. Even the stout
women are wearing them. Leaving
out the consideration, says the New
York World, the cost Of material
fora very fat woman's suspenders,
it does seem to be thoughtful that
they ought not to wear them. Sup
pose they should become detached
from their rear fastenings, what
would happen! When, following
some great emotion, or some vlo-
lent muscular effort, pair of sus-
penders, like a runaway balloon,
break loose from their moorings
and raise to a point just below any
woman's shoulder-blades, it is USE
less for her to try to seize them
with her own hands. She can twist
and wiggle and make faces and
thrust her tongue in her cheek and
distort herself into all the shapes OF
a marionette, but she cannot grasp
those suspenders. Generations OF
men have tried to do it. Ever since
the first pair of trousers the strong
er sex have purpled their faces and
dislocated their shoulders in the
same mocking, useless, oath-forcing
attempt. And shall women succeed
now in a day?
So what's to be done if woman's
suspenders break loose in the back,
say at Twenty-third street and
Broadway? Will she fly to the
haven that every woman seeks when
an accident, visible or invisible
happens to what she wears-will
she 60 into a shop? It will, indeed
be a courageous woman who will
walk into a shop with the explana'
ton, "Excuse me moment, want
to button my suspenders." But
even if she be brave enough to dc
that, to endure the scornful smiles
to face the withering looks of the
salesladies whose suspenders are
never unbuttoned until they so wish
how, if she be alone, is she going
to button her suspenders?
Men have been trying to solve
that problem for 10 /! these many
generations, and, as they give every
thing they own, and a great many
things they don't to women, women
might as we'll have the benefit o.
their experience at once. The com
monest thing for a man to do ir
such an emergency is to unbuttor
his veet, throw his coat-tail over the
back of his head, walk up to the
first man he sees, turn his back te
him and asks his help. If he knows
the other man he says: "Old fellow
I've busted my galluses. Yank 'en
down, will your" If he does MOI
know him, he is, of course, more
distant-that is, in his speech. HI
may say something like this
"Oblige me, sir, by drawing dowr
my suspenders. As you see, they're
broken" And the other fellow
who it's ten thousand to one wears
suspenders himself, has a fellow
feeling and obliges.
Now, here is perhaps, the simples
method and the easiest to learn
Any woman can say: "Oblige me
sir, by drawing down my suspenders
AS you see, they're broken" It MAJ
be that the mans hand will trembls
q bit, but there will be fellow
feeling still, and he certainly vii
oblige.
If a mans suspender buttons fly
off when the rupture between hi
suspenders and his trowsers come
he has as last resort that may b.
stated at first as being the mos
discomforting-to a man. He car
take off his suspenders and wall
on the heels of his trowsers. But {
woman would hate to do that. Thar
is, she would hate to take off hel
suspenders, for, strangely enough
she wears them for show, most os
tentatiously, proudly, delightedly
with an air that palmer than words
"Be kind enough to observe, | hav'
taken another step toward tn
emancipation of the sex" Som'
women, indeed, choose the gaudies
colors for their suspenders. If
man were to wear suspenders al
loud as theirs he would not be abl'
to hear himself think For exam
pie, all Philadelphia was delighted
the other day by the sight of red
headed girl wearing red suspender'
and pair Of red shoes. Men, OF
the other hand, hide their suspend
ers. If they don't wear sashes t
conceal the awkward end of tn
ugly straps.
Ii q man does not take off hi
broken suspenders he makes an ef
fort to repair them. Human inge
nuity has exhausted itself in thi
direction. Men have used twin
since twine has been made and tie'
their suspenders down. But, the'
again, men have had advantage Q