The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-09-12
wCMEN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS
what Is the Right Bicycle Costume For 81
Woman?

what Is the Right Bicycle Costume For $.
Woman?
The bicycle craze for women has
struck New Yorl-struck it hard.
Women Of all ages are learning TO ride
the wheel. No athletic exercise is at
once 50 fascinating and so exhilarating.
At the school where | have been taking
lessons there are often more women pu-
pills than men. am only provoked az
myself to think of all have lost during
so many years IN not learning sooner /
believe 1t TO be, except swimming, the
best physical exercise ever devised for
women. But there are difficulties for
women bicyclers that men do not have
TO encounter, just as there are every
where else, for that matter. Woman's
dress is terribly IN her way. I have
been delayed several lessons in learning
10 mount because my heels would per
Fist in catching in the long skirt 1t
was so exasperating that 1 have taken q
VOW to wear the newly devised bloomer
bicycle costume. So many ladies wear
it now that woman bicycler in a long
skirt is becoming a rarity on some of
the roads about New York Our sex is
indebted to a New York man, Mr.. II.
Strugnell, a Broadway manufacturer,
for the best bicycle suit I have seen.
The boomer trousers are confined Just
below the knee by an elastic band
Long CATERS of the same material as
the suit cover the leg from instep TO
knee. With a shirt waist a Jacket is
worn, or not, according to the weather,
and close fitting cap completes the
outer costume. 1t is simple, Of light
weight and convenient. When once the
bicycle costume is settled, another ques-
ton equally serious cOnfrOnts women
1t is unquestioned that woman's BIZ
cycle as at present manufactured is
heavy, clumsy and weak. 1t must weigh
half dozen pounds more than a mans
although woman is physically weaker.
1t is constructed IN defiance of ell the
principles for combining strength and
lightness in machine Y This is because
Of the notion that it is imnodest for
women to ride as men do. But that no
ton, too, is vanishing. The New York
Sun, q good friend to women, came out
recently in an editorial recommending
women to ride mems wheels. With the
present bicycle costume for women there
is no longer anything i'll the way of
this Women would ride with less ia
tigue. In fact, many women in the
vicinity of New York are already riding
mems wheels. And the men all like
it and admire it. too, - the bicycle teach
or tells me. 1 may say he is a good
looking young man.
Many Of the cruel, wicked and prepos-
ferrous notions of the orient concerning
women yet linger about New York. My
western readers will be surprised to
learn that some old mummies of restau-
rant keepers here have rule that women
unattended by men shall not be served
in their cookshops in the evening |
There is no reason for it except the in |
nate impulse to tryannize over what is |
weak and helpless. Lately at one of |
these mummy places q lady accompa-
MED by woman friend went into the
restaurant where she had been in the
habit Of taking meals for year. She
was known and respected, but it was
after dark, and she was refused her din
ner because it was the heather custom
at that restaurant TO turn ladies out in
the street hungry when they had moth
ing i'll trousers along with them. The
lady might have gone out into the park
and invited one of the tra,nps that
snooze on the benches to dine with her
and paid for his dinner, and it would
have been all right, but refined, deli
cate ladies alone, no! The New York
World, in commenting on the outrage,
reminds women of the law requiring
restaurant keepers to serve all orderly,
we'll behaved persons who apply for
food. 1t advises women wherever they |
are turned out as the lady mentioned
was to sue the restaurant keeper for |
heavy damages. There is no shadow of |
doubt that it could be collected. ! hope |
the matter will be brought to the test
Mrs. Agnes K. Murphy Mulligan is
member of the New York Real Estate
Exchange In spite Of her name she is
Of long American lineage, being de-
scended on one side from Knicker-
booker family. She was educated III
the New York city public schools. Her
father was in the real estate business,
and his health failed. The plucky and
trained girl took his place. She was
married IL year ago, but still occupies
her desk III the Office. Before her mar
rage, when a very young girl, Mrs.
Mulhgan negotiated q real estate sale to
the amount of 500, 000 1t was this sale c
that won her election to membership in
The Real Estate Exchange. She is prov |
ing very successful in her chosen occu- G
patton. c
The Globe-Democrat remarks editori- z
,lly how it is not pleasant to read that
20 many of the active women politicians
If Kansas are suffering from nervous
Yes, but this is nothing to
he nervous prostration from which
many of the active men politicians i'll
Washington and New York are suffer
ng just now.
The women of New Jersey have been
'oting on school questions for some
ears, but recently the supreme court of :,
he state advanced backward and pro- !
the opinion that women there II