The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-13
BOOMERS.

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the shadow of quarrel between Mr.. and
Mrs. Cranston. But after Mrs. Cranston
bought a bicycle and learned to ride well
there was disagreement which came very
near breaking up 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
wife's whims that she had unconsciously
gained an opinion that her word was to
him like the laws of the Metles and the
Persians
But this idea was all knocked to pieces
when one morning as they sat at their break
fast Mrs Cranston said:
"Tom, Pm going to order my dress
maker to make a suit of boomers for me
today. do so much bicycling now that
skirts are too heavy for me-"
"What!' shouted Tom, dropping his
spoon in the oatmeal
Mrs. Cranston also dropped her spoon and
looked in surprise at her husband.
81 said" she repeated, 'that | was
going to get bloomer suit. What
strikes you as particularly strange about
that ?''
'What strikes me as particularly
stranger he repeated, with a wild look in
his eyes. "Do you think for one instant
that | will allow my wife to race around
town looking like Autograph of variety
entertainment? Not much
"But, Tom," said Louise in tone that
had never failed to persuade her husband
that she was right and that he was wrong,
II don't see why | can't have boomers
Mrs. Kynaston and Mrs Bentley and Mrs
Jennings all wear them and theil husbands
don't object, and why should you?"
st makes no difference why should, :"
said Tom, doggedly. 81 don't intend to
have my friends on the exchange coming to
me and saying, tom, l see your wife's
wearing boomers. Not if l know it."
"But, Tom she began, ''I''-
ooh, don't talk any more nonsense,
Louise" he broke in. 81 am sick of it.
it, And Mr. Cranston, whose appetite
had been entirely taken away by his wife's
announcement, got up from the table and
started for the door.
"Goodby!" he called from the hall, and
then the door slammed and Louise sat at
the breakfast table wondering how it was
that she had never before known that her
husband had will of his own.
She had told all her friends only the day
before that she would be wearing boomers
within a week and when they had sugges-
ted that her husband might object she had
said:
"What! Tom object? Why he never
objects to anything"
And now Tom had absolutely refused to
allow her to wear them, with facial
expression which showed that he would
not stop short of the divorce courts to pre-
vent it.
Finally she arose from her table and
went to her room.
She had an idea which, she thought, if
consent to the wearing of boomers. She
wrote a hurried note to her dressmaker
ordering bloomer suit of pattern which
she had already selected and then donned
her old bicycle suit to pay call to Mrs.
Kynaston, who had husband who did not
object to boomers.
She tells her troubles to the vivacious
Mrs, kynaston, who was not sparing
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.
II don't believe the poor man has ever
seen proper bicycling costume I'll tell
you what We'll do. Well all 90 bicycling
this afternoon and come back by your
house at just the time your husband gets
home and he will see what bloomer suit
looks like"
And so the bicycle party was arranged,
and when Thomas Cranston arrived at
his home that evening he saw five women
riding in front of the house, and four of
them were in full bloomer 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 wife's request, but he made up his
mind that it would be humanity to yield
after his remarks of the morning, and so
with bow to his wife and her companions
he went indoors and began to dress for
dinner.
That night Louise again preached the
subject Of bloomers, but her husband
silenced her by saying:
"Now, see here, Louise, don't speak to
me about boomers again. You may go in
for women's rights if you like, and you
may wear standing collars and mems
waistcoats, but you shall not wear trousers
even if bicycling does justify it in your
eyes.
"Trousersn cried Louise Indignantly
"Who sid anything about trousers? /
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