Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-02-02
A Pair Of Boomers.

with women there never had been
even so much as the shadow OF n
quarrel between Mr.. and Mrs. Gran
ston. But after Mrs. Cranston
bought bicycle and learned to ride
we'll there was disagreement which
came very near breaking up u happy
home. They had been married three
years, and they had often said their
married life had been one long honey
moon.
Tom had yielded so readily to all
OF his wife's whims that she had un.
consciously gained an opinion that
her word was to him like the laws Of
the Modes and tho Persians.
But tho idea was oil knocked to
pieces when ore morningas they sat
at breakfast Mrs. Cranston said:
tom, I'm going to order my dress.
maker to make suit OF boomers for
mo to-day. lido so much bicycling
now that skirts aro too heavy for
me-"
"What I" shouted Tom, dropping
his spoon in the oatmeal and spatter.
Ing milk oil over his neoktie, looking
at her as though she had announced
that sho was going to commit sui.
eide.
Mrs. Cranston also dropped her
spoon and looked in surprise at her
husband.
II said," she repeated, "that I
was going to get bloomer suit.
What strikes you rs particularly
strange about that?"
"What strikes mo as particularly
stranger" he repeated, with a wild
look In his eyes. ''Do you think for
one instant that I will allow my wife
to race around town looking like U
Autograph Of u variety entertain.
mentP Not much"
But, 1om." said Louise, In n tone
that had never failed to persuade hel
husband that she was right and that
no was wrong. II don't see why
can't have boomers. Mrs. Kynas.
ton and Mrs. Bentley and Mrs. Jcnk.
ms oil wear them and their husbands
don't object, 80 why should your"
1T makes no difference why
should" said Tom, doggcdly. 81
don't intend to have my friends or
the exchange coming to me and say.
ing: Tom, I see your wife 3 wear
ing boomers Not II / know It,"
But, Tom," she began, q
"Oh, don't talk any more non
sense, Louise" he broke In. ~ am
sick OF It.. You shan't wear bloom
ers, 80 that settles it," and Mr.
Cranston, whose appetite had beer
taken entirely away by iswifc's an
nouncemcnt, got up from tho table
and started for the door.
Good.by," he called from thu
hall, and then the door slammed, ant
Louise sat ut the breakfast tnbl,
wondering how 1t was that she hat
never before known that her husband
had q will OF his own.
She had told all OF her friends
only tho day before, that she would
be wearing bloomcrs within week
and when they had suggested tina
her husband might object she hat
said:
what! Tom object: Why, h
never objects to anything"
And now Tom had absolutely re
fused to allow her to wear them, witt
. facial expression which SHOWED
that he would not stop short OF tn
divorce courts to prevent Ii.
Finally she arose from the tabl
and went to her room.
She had an idea which she thought
II properly carried out, would gall
Toms consent to the wearing O
bloomers. She wrote hurried not
to her dressmaker ordering bloom
err suit OF u pattern which she ha
already selected, and then dOnne
her old bicycle suit to pay call o
Mrs. Kynaston, who had u husban
who did not object to boomers
She told her troubles to tho viva
cious Mrs. Kynaston, who was nc
sparing in her sympathy for the poe
friend who had Il narrow-minded hus
band who objected to convenien
bicycle dress.
why, how foolish OF him." sh
said. ~ don't believe the poor ma
has ever seen proper bicycling CO..
pt'iiiC' ~ WI you NhNS W. - o'
Wen all 60 bicycling this afterno ol
and como back by your house ut jus
tho time your husband gets home
and he will see what bloomer su
looks like"
And so the bicycle party was al
ranged, and when Thomas CranstO
arrived ut his house that evening
saw five women riding in front OF Il
house and four of them were in fl
bloomer costume, The fifth, wi
wore skirts, was his wife.
He was not so badly shocked as
thought he would be, and he wish'
that he had not been so decided
his refusal OF his wife's request, b
he made up his mind that it Won
be unmanly to yield after his
marks OF the morning, and SO with
bow to his wife and her companion
, he went indoors and began to DIRE
for dinner.
That night Louise again breach
the subject OF boomers, but her HI
f. band silenced her by saying:
snow, see here, Louise, dol
speak to me about bloomeys aga