Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-23

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have not experienced any of the inoon-
venlences that riders claim as a result
of what l consider a proper costume.
But in the country where have spent
the summer I have seen the girls riding
in ordinary dresses. sometimes in ging-
ham dresses, the skirts of which may
have been slightly shorter than usual,
and they apparently rode with ease and
no Inconvenience from the skirt. /
believe in encouraging bicycling where
women ride in moderate way. If
riding for speed is the object they have
in view, think it is not q desirable
thing. II women ride at a moderate
rate l cannot see that it is necessary to
60 without skirts, and l have made
numerous inquiries recently of women
riders who do wear skirts
"I'm sure I shouldn't say boomers
are immoral. but when rider whirls
by wearing them think it gives a sem
sation that is disagreeable. The sight
suggests unwomanliness.
"All men whom / have heard ex-
press any opinion about boomers agree
that they dislike them and don t think
they are becoming to the wearers In
deed l do not know one person who will
say that they fully admire boomers. 1
have never seen woman wearing
boomers that looked at all attractive to
me. Perhaps the wearers don't care
about it, but if they don't think we
should decry that. believe that each sex
was created with the instinct to look
attractive in the eyes of the opposite sex,
and if the effect of wearing boomers is
to make woman cease to care whether
she looks attractive or not it is unnat-
ural.
Nine. Romero, wife of the Minister
from Mexico, was asked what she
thought of boomers She is an Amer
lean, Philadelphia. and when it
isn't diplomatic question can say
what she pleases. She has many for
eign ways of emphasizing her words.
and the manner in which she said "Oh,
, don't like them; they are perfectly
horrible" was equal to ten minutes
talk from some other woman.
81 can't see any justification, she
went on, for woman wearing such
hideous things. Ihave seen many women
riding bicycles this summer at Larch-
mont and the resorts along the Sound,
and I approve heartily of the bicycle
and of the very graceful costumes most
of those women wore. thought they
looked very neat and trim with thei,
: well-shaped skirts" Nine. Janauscheb
: said: 81 don't like boomers. know
3 I shouldn't wear them if I was young
3 enough to learn to ride the bicycle.
think the costume with the skirt is sc
graceful and becoming to the wheel
women that they should be content to
wear that. AS far as objecting te
: such articles on the score of mode sty,
perhaps on some women they are mod
est. have never been able to bring
myself. however, to appear on the stage
in mans apparel.
81 have given up several important
parts after a caste had been made uI
because was required by the part tc
wear trousers or tights. I have the
feeling that it is not feminine. The
only time I have ever departed from
this course was in AS You Like 1t,
when given for the Women's PROBES
sional League. Then, however, they
allowed me to improvise my own Co.'S
! tune, and I did the best could with
heavy, loose bootlegs and tunic COM
ing to the knees. So you can under
: stand what my feelings must be about
bifurcated garments worn on the BIZ
cycle without the shield Of skirt"
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher sat in the
parlor of her home, at the corner OF
Hicks and Orange streets. in Brooklyn,
and looked out of the window at bicy.
clists wheeling by as she remarked
"Bloomers are an abomination.
don't mind having all the world know
that I think they are a disgrace to
womankind, and I hope never will
! see any one belonging to me wearing
them.
81 can't understand how any woman
of modesty can wear them. ] don't
believe it is necessary to leave off the
skirt when riding. I'm not opposed to
bicycling for women. In fact, if was
twenty years younger 1 should ride the
: wheel myself, for believe moderate
amount of riding is very beneficial,
and know of cases where it has proved
so. No one. however, would ever see
me wearing boomers as costume.
"Out on the Pacific coast didn't
have an opportunity to see any boomer
clad women riders, because if they had
passed shouldn't have been able to
see them On account of the fog and
smoke from forest fires. l didn't even
| see star until the night came away.
My daughter-in-lsw rides. but she
doesn't wear boomers, and my own
} daughter would never do such thing.
I don't at all mind having everybody
understand that consider boomers a
disgrace to my SEX"
I, WEDDING AND FUNERAL TOGETHER.
John A. Chittenden of Ashley.
Mich, on his deathbed requested that
his sister Louise and her betrothed,