The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1895-10-12
A PAIR OF BLOOMERS.
Why Mrs. Cranston's Husband Al
lowed Her to Wear Them.

liuS well, IutIc WIS d ulSdRIeSihenO
which came very nearly breaking up a
happy home. They had been married
three years, and they had often said
that their married life had been one
long honeymoon.
Tom had yielded so readily to all of
his wifes whims that she had uncon-
sciously gained an opinion that her
word was to him like the laws of the
Modes and the Persians.
But this idea was all knocked to
pieces when one morning as they sat at
breakfast Mrs. Cranston said:
Tom, I'm going to order my dress
maker to make suit of boomers for
me to-day. do so much bicycling
now that the skirts are too heavy for
me-"
"Whatn shouted Tom, dropping his
spoon in the oatmeal and splattering
milk all over his necktie, looking at
her as though she had announced that
she was going to commit suicide
Mrs. Cranston also dropped her spoon
and looked in surprise at her husband
Il said" she repeated, sthat was
going to get bloomer suit. What
strikes you as particularly strange
about that?"
What strikes me as particularly
stranger he repeated, with wild look
in his eyes. do You think for one mo-
ment that l will allow my wife to race
around town looking like lithograph
of a variety entertainment? Not
much"
But Tom" said Louise, in a tone
that had never failed to persuade her
husband that she was right and that he
was wrong, II don't see why I can't
have bloomers. Mrs. IIynaston and Mrs.
Bentley and Mrs Jennings all wear
them and their husbands don't object,
so why should your
SIT makes no difference why
should" said Tom, doggedly 81 don't
intend to have my friends OF the ex-
change coming to me and saying:
Tom, see your wifes wearing bloom
ers. Not if know it,
But, Tom" she began, 81"
"Oh, don't talk any more nonsense,
Louise, he broke in. 81 am sick of it.
You shan't wear boomers, so that set
ties it, and Mr.. Cranston, whose APP
petite mad been taken entirely away by
his wife's announcement, got up from
the table and started for the door.
Good BY" he called from the hall, |
and then the door slammed and Louise |
sat ut the breakfast table wondering /
how it was that she had never before
known that her husband had VIII of |
his own
She had told all of her friends only |
a. hot I.a
ing bloomers within a week, and when
they had suggested that her husband
might object she said:
"Whatl Tom object? Why, he never
objects to anything"
And now Tom had absolutely refused
to allow her to wear them, with ia
cial expression which showed that he
would not stop short of the divorce
courts to prevent it.
Finally she arose from the table and
went to her room.
She had an idea which she thought,
if properly carried out, would gain
Toms consent to the wearing of bloom
ers. She wrote hurried note to her
dressmaker ordering a bloomer suit of
pattern which she had already Sc
lected, and then donned her old bicycle
suit to pay call on Mrs, Kynaston,
who had husband who did not object
to boomers.
She told her troubles to the vivacious
Mrs Kynaston, who was not spariug
in her sympathy for the poor friend
who had narrow-minded husband
who objected to a convenient bicycle
dress.
"Why, how foolish of him, she said.
81 don't believe the poor man has
ever seen a proper bicycling costume.
III tell you what we'll do. Wen all
go bicycling this afternoon, and come
back by your house at just the time
your husband gets home, and he viii
see what bloomer suit looks like
And SO the bicycle party was ar
ranged, and when Thomas Cranston
arrived at his house that evening he
saw FIVE women riding in front of the
house and four of them were in full
costume. The fifth, who wore
skirts, was his wife.
He was not so badly shocked as he
thought he would be, and he wished
that he had not been so decided in his
refusal of his wifes request, but he
made up his mind that it would be un-
manly to yield after his remarks Of
the morning, and so, with bow to his
wife and her companions, he went in i
loors and began to dress for dinner.
That night Louise again preached {
The subject of boomers, but her hus- Z
oand silenced her by saying: /
'Now. see here, Louise, don't speak a
% me about bloomers again. You may c
70 in for womens rights if you like, Q
Ind you may wear standing collars and
mems waistcoats, but you shall not t
wear trousers even if bicycling does .
Justify it in your eyes" e
trousers cried Louise, indignant S