San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-21
CONTRIBUTED SCRAPS.

bicycle rluoTb Is enough TO eXdS-
perate a saint, and no woman
ever blossomed out into a state Of
sainthood in this world.
When bloomer woman was
killed by running her bicycle
against dog (she felt sure the dog
~uuId get out Of her way) wicked
fellow in pants wrote and published
these dOggerel lines concerning
the affair:
"As Providence willed,
By her bicycle killed."
'"T'was thus that her epitaph ran,
Though sad was the mishap,
She went to heaven, like man."
There is an unaccountable
bewitchment about opinions and
acts which are prohibited. The
mere prohibition Of them arouses
our spirit and inspires us with a
desire to disregard the prohibition
just to show our independence.
In every human being there is
a fund of latent contrariness, or
an inclination to take up prohibit
ed things. This is shown con-
stantly by children.
But it is shown oftener by girls
marrying good-for-nothing men
solely because their parents and
relatives have opposed and prohib-
tied the mesalliance.
1t is very likely that Eve would
never have fancied, or thought Of
eating the forbidden fruit in the
garden Of Eden, had a prohibition
not been laid on the eating of the
fruit Of that particular tree. That
prohibition"put her on her mettle"
and kindled in her bosom a deter.
mination to show her indepen-
dence Of spirit and her contempt
for the prohibition.
The female descendants Of Eve
seem to have inherited their full
share Of this spirit of resistance to
a positive command, such as "thou
shalt not do this or that thing"
The opposition made by men to
the DOMINIC Of the bloomer style of
dress by women, has aroused their
latent spirit of independence, con.
trariness, or whatever you may
choose to call it, and inspired them
with a strong inclination to show
their independence by wearing
boomers.
In this matter of choosing their
style OF dress, women think it is
their inalienable right to adopt
any style OF dress that suits them,
provided it does not shock public
decency, and this idea very natur-
ally inclines them to resent the
arrogant attempt on the part Of
the men to prescribe and dictate
their style Of dress. ..,.,-..,s.s
II menisuit themselves in the
cut and fashion Of their own attire,
why should not the women possess
and exercise the same right?
Men should recollect the moral
taught by the story of the man
and wife who were crossing a
river in boat. The wife said to
her husband that his head was
full of lice; he denied it, she
reiterated it; he grew angry and
threatened to throw her out of the
boat in case she repeated it. She
would have repeated it then,
il it cost her her life, and she did
repeat it with whoop.
Her husband caught her and
put her into the river, but holding
her by the arm the wife repeated
the charge that he chad lice in
his head" whereupon he soused
her head under the water and this
game went on till the woman was
so nearly strangled as to be I'M
able to speak and her husband
believed he had won the victory.
But his wife went through the
motion Of cracking lice with her
hands or thumbs, and he had to
give up, and pull his almost
drowned wife into the boat.
Women won't be driven by
threats and force. They can lay q
mule in the shade, when it comes
to "taking the sulks." The least
mite OF g. woman will defy any
attempt to coerce her.
A writer Of doggerel has thus
hit of this trait in women, and
he proves he understood the ma
ture of woman:
81 do not care to vote," she said;
81 hate this suffrage rant.
But don't want some horrid man
To tell me that L can't"
III the men keep up the clatter
and fuss about bloomers and in
sist on debating to women the
cut and style OF the ir attire. the