The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-18


i've woman may wear and still be the
cynosure of all eyes. especially mt the
opera. Woman should have every facility
for health and longevity. not alone that
She may be the mother of statesmen who
meet each year to repeal the laws they
passed the year before, but for her own
sake.
There have been many moro startling
changes made i'll woman's costume than
those OF the present, and they were
far less sensible too. There WAS time
when additions had to be built to the
thrones of Europe to admit the royal
hoops and hcaddrcsSes.
While the bloomer is hardly to be
adopted for indoor wear, it might be
permitted as we get moro accustomed to
it, and then tho wholesome fear of IL
mouse would gradually disappear. For
ono / frankly admit that if 1 had to
wear long skirts all the time / would
tie them to my ankles and howl from
the top of Il sideboard if Il mouse came
i'll my direction.
1t has been proved that man III his
nlShtdress cannot whip SO large bur
Slar as he can i'll his trousers Statistics
prove this Does it not show that skirts
are inimical to courage and heroic en-
deavor?
We should also be consistent and judge
of this matter without prejudice. We
must not attack the bloomcr because we
are bowlcggcd. We must have other and
better motives.
Men are often inconsistent liz their
dress; according to the best standards.
For instance, the highlander, it seems
to me, would look better even in bloom
ers, and the mosquitoes would have to
then turn their attention to other and
nohler objects,
There seems 10 ie Il vague fear, too,
that woman will finally usurp many Of
mans rights and at last infcst the
smoking room, thus taking the spice ont
of the prevailing smoking room anec-
dotc This, of course, would be sad hat
we must be prepared for anything.
Son!c think that If woman should once
get control OF the smoking room she
would hang up cages full of canarics
and Introduce little tcacups, with sou
vcnir spoons in them, of the kind which
viii convey drop of tea into the mouth
and take ont everything there is i'll tho
mouth, including the tea. | would he
sorry, of coarse, TO have this happen or
to have tea dealt ont to mo by troy
weight without enough in cup TO even
convey ii wholesome warmth when up
set ii i'll my lap, but do not think it
VIII ever come TO that. l think there
Will always be q room in every well
regulated homo where man may 90 to
escape from too much refinement,
place whore he may go and express him
self fully VIXEN things go wrong and the
parlor is occupied by refined people, who
can sit i'll "a chair without resting thcir
weight on it.
Though I am thoroughly refined and
have sweet nature SO sunny at times
that | have to be careful not to sit too
near the ferns i'll the conservatory, and
often when am feeling we'll one smile
Will prematurcly ripen lemon tree, vet
L can see that the same wisdom which
put whiskers Oh the man and made him
strong, so that he would enjoy getting
up at dead OF night to chase II COW out
OF the PhloX drummondi, also gave him
Il desire 20 escape from IL fcte champetre
and seek for catfish whore the worm
dicth not
Woman invades today, it is trrc, al
most every walk of life and Il man who
wishes to break tho first commandment
i think it is the firSt-must be all the
time apolo2lzing or swear off. | must
admit that times are not the same us
they used TO be, but we have leorred
ono coed lesson-viz, that profanity can