The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-11-22
STORIES OF THE Jay.
A Few Entertaining Bits About the
BlooIner Girl.

a Few entertaining bhUs ADOut SnS
Bloomer Girl.
One bicycle episode in the park recent
" afforded some excitement. A horse,
owned by John Mooney Of Shaw place.
and Il young woman i'll boomers ON "a
bicycle were the actors. The girl rode
well and seemed to enjoy 1t, and she
circ1ed the lake several times, AS she
was on her last lap the horse ran away
and dashed wildly down the drive to-
ward her. She looked back and saw h
trenzied brute bearing directly down on
her.
There was only n avenue Of escape
open, and she took it, though few men
would have the presence OF mind to do
the necessary thing. She made q quick,
short turn toward the lake, and went
over the bank. A shout of horror went
up from the. crowd as they saw the girl
and wheel fly through the air for ~ or
Is feet, then drop into the lake. The
water was not more than three feet
deep, but the girl and wheel Wore both
submerged. The girl floundered to her
feet. gasping for breath, and with her
pretty hair and erstwhile jaunty COS.
tune clinging tightly to her rounded
figure.
She was assisted to the shore and es-
corted to the cottage by a score or SO Of
sympathizers. While her wheel was be-
ing fished out she managed to wiring
most Of the water from her clothes, and
finding that her bicycle was not broken,
she mounted it and rode away.-St-
Louis Globe Democrat.
About the time the bloomer was first
invented in America, some 40 years ago,
the Maoris, or natives Of New Zealand,
were emerging from c%aunibalism. Now
the daughter Of the old king is a fully
up to date new woman, dressed in
boomers and riding "a bicycle.
The young, Maori c~hieftainess, in ad-
dition to her royal descent, has obtained
a prominence of her W that makes her
the most conspicuous and popular figure
in New Zealand. She prefers to be
known by the simple name Of "Pansy.
Pansy is a very comedy young woman,
and it is a pleasing sight to witness the
attention and Difference paid to her by
the beaux Of her race. These dusky gen.
tlemen are exceedingly proud Of the
we'll set up Maori girl, and they watch
lover and attend to her wants with a
touch of gallantry which knows nothing
of antipathy to rational dress.
When Pansy first burst upon view at
the Park race course, Napier, the events
on the programme were for some mo-
ments forgotten, and glasses by the score
were leyeled at the dusky beauty.
But Pansy bore her honors and the
scrutiny and the chaf with perfect ease
and was admired when she rode her
wheel past the stands. Boston Globe.
How long the bloomer girl will re-
main true to her boomers if she has tc
forsake her lover will be a new feature.
The recent breaking of an engagement
between a we'll known couple was due
to so modern d cause The fiance, meet
ing her on a wheel clad in boomers
demanded that she change them fol
skirts. The fiance refused. Bloomer!
were worn, but the solitaire was hand
ed back.
Woman's ability to judge of dress bet
ter than a man is we'll argued. When il
comes, however, to losing a good, hon
est lover, then she had better waive al
questions of "rights'' and submit III th'
good old fashioned way, and then if he
surrender to him gals her a bit, why
she may give him a burned beefsteak O
rwo in the later days to get even.-Bos
ton Journal.
Newport, writes a summer CORE
spcndent at that place, has taken t.
!, boomers at last. Until lately not a di
vided skirt Of any description had beel
seen, although it was a we'll known fac
! that all the young ladies who ride hat
, costumes on hand and only awaited
leader. But now the more courageou
. have donned their new suits and mad
1 their debut.
One now has only to seek out any o
the most secluded cycling haunts in tn
! early morning hours to find h fal
y riders training for graceful riding pos
. lures in rational dress The new cos
s tunes are all in dark grays and brown
or black throughout, and only the full
e est bloomer patterns, with high CATERS
are seen. 1t is now only a matter Q
days before boomers for the wheel vii
be altogether the thing at Newport. =
d st. Louis Republic.
IF the use Of wheels were confine
y to the men," says General Lew Wa
lace, 1.-The fad might spend itself in
- season, but when the women take hol
Of the bicycle its future is secure.
y Ladies who ride will be interested I
know that General Wallace is an or
= thusiastic advocate Of the fair cyclel
and that he approves Of bloomer'
"about which there is nothing immot
est, it being merely their present oddit
of appearance that now excites CON
a. ment. Why, in the Tyrol the wome
wear skirts coming just below the knee
and no ono not avap an entire stranger