St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-25
Her Reason Is Because"
With a Great Big Fe-
male 3d."
And That Means because the
Lords Of Creation Don't
Desire It,"
Women Are firing Of the
Present Umbrella Covering
Style Of Dress.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again;
The eternal years of gods are hers.
But error. wounded writhes in pain

| And dies amid her worshipers.
Crinoline or not crinOine? that is the
! question. / answer it at once: l am
! for hoopskirts, now and forever.
L will state my reasons later on. For
the present to the question "why?" l
| only answer because"
Crinoline is the big, momentous ques-
tion-not only to the easily agitated
female mind. but to the conservative
masculine intellect as well.
Shall we wear hoops or shaD't we? L
know no reason why we shan't, and /
know many reasons why we shall.
Men object to women wearing hoop
skirts. Well. if that is not a pretty
strong reason why we should wear
them, then | am sadly in need of en-
lightenment on the workings of the
female mind.
Hoopskirts are new. How is that for
a reason. "New" TO women is exactly
what the candle is to the moth, and
wOman'S definition of new" Is Il must
have it,
As matter of course. the king reason
for erinoline is because" with a great
big female b.
But, independent of that, it is fact
that men can't wear hoops. Good Lord,
let US have something which belongs 10
woman absolutely. Every woman away
down in her heart where nobody can
peep except herself knows she must
have little the best of things. Well,
right here. fellow women, call OH you
TO stop and think.
The hoop skirt is that ''little the best"
There is no known article Of mans APP
parel that we have not-which we can
not wear at all times and in all places
with perfect safety. propriety, grace
and comfort. Now, where Is the rash
man who ever did, could or will wear a
full-grown, well-develOped hoop skirt.
Imagine the lords of creation Strutting
around with full beard and crinOline
two yards in diameter. 1t is not possible
to conceive such creature.
Well, then. since we have the field all
to ourselves since we have garment,
or personal fixture, to be more exact,
which belongs exclusively to uS-let us
make the most of it.
Suppose the hOOp-Sklrted woman does
mOnODoliZe the street car, will it hurt
man to stand up? Not particle.
Will woman wear crinOline for her
self? No.
Does she wear anything for herself?
No.
It's all for the sake of man-and Grim
| oline will be for his sake with the rest.
Now, in the name of common sense,
| if woman does all this for man, can't
man stand up? He can, and more than
| that, with hat in hand.
One of the first duties of woman IS to
| be attractive and beautiful-persOnally
| morally and mentally. There is no rec
ord or legion of any people Of any time,
| hi fr,t-in liz Dtt
| cept Adam and Eve-who have at any
time lived without some sort of shelter
| and some sort of clothes.
| All peoples of all times wore some
thing. 1t only nose ring, necklace
| of shells, feather in the hair, paper
collar, or pleasant smile. the human
race found some sort of wearing aD-
| parel necessary for comfort or for beau
tifying purposes.
Now then, who but a woman is re-
spOnsible for clothes? Who but wOm
an dressed man?
Eve hastily supplied the oversight or
being created without dress. But 70
woman, man would still-like the
monkey-be at large undressed.
Mark her unSelfiShneSS-She dressed
| not only herself, she dressed Adam as
well.
Pve heard men say, "Look how plain
my clothes are;' of course they are.
! What would we think ii we saw potato
grow out of the heart of a rose, sur
rounded by its fragrance and beauty.
We would think it was out of place. So
with man-Nature, like water seeks her
level. The potato is good, but it wears
plain jacket made of bagging; so with
man. Man is good, but his clothes must
! be plain, else the man OF the clothes are
out of place. Woman must he orna-
mented, else she is out of place
Another reason why l advocate crino-
line is because it is beautiful.
Everything beautiful in nature is
bell-like in its growth. Nine. Modiste
only follows the models so graciously
| provided by Nine. Nature. The lily,
the rose. the thousand varieties of the
| dainty swinging bell-like flowers, all Of
| them have their beautiful outside,
stretched over crinOliue.
Juno's bird is case of the vainglori-
Gus in crinoline. By all means let US
have crinoline to complete the Hogarth-
ian line of feminine beauty.
Let us have crinoline, because it will
! keep skirts. shoes and stockings clean.
Beeauseit will not flop around our
ankles like GiShrag.
Because it will not sweep up all the
dust and drag in all the mud of the
! street
Let US have crinoline because we
want it.
We have done time enough, it seems
to me, wearing the sheath-like skirts
like umbrella covers.
Let us have chance to live and move
and have our being inside the broad,
branching, far-reaching, friendly hoop
skirt. All hail to it.
From hyglenic standpoint there is
no chance for an argument. It's bound
to be light III weight. and will have