The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-21
RELAPSE OF A NEW WOMAN.
From the Washington Post.

anna Marie was 10 be a new woman.
She had decided that for herself. In the
carrying out of her desunies Anna Marie
had cut her hair of short. She also made
a specially of very mannish costumes.
and, outwardly at least. became as virile
as a woman could be with a makeup the
basis Of which was bound to be a skirt.
Anna Marie was motherless, and at the
age OF 70. when she had determined to
become a new woman. had no advice but
her fathers to depend on. When she dis
cussed an adoption of broader and more
masculine methods on her girlish part
with her father. the old gentleman looked
puzzled, and said:
We'll, my DEAR I've great confidence
in your judgment. There is nothing like
experience, SO 90 ahead. You will find,
however. before you have gone far to-
ward becoming a man. that you labor. I'M
der many structural defects. The Great
Architect didn't lay you out for a man,
Anna Marie: you are not built right for
such a fate"
However, Anna Maria kept on. She was
looking for a fuller liberty and wider
field. She was too delicately. too accurate
ly determined in her tastes, TO be fool
to cigarettes or swept down in a current
Of profane swearing. Bad language and
tobacco she would leave to the real man;
Tor her career as new woman nothing
so vigorous was needed
But men did other things; had other
freedoms, and from that long male list of
liberties Anna Marie proposed to pick out
1f,-. -F &. },
enough of that pent-up Utica which con-
fined the conventional woman. What she
wanted was more room; that is, OF prop
er, decorous sort.
OF course, as Anna Marie proceeded up
the long trail TO masculinity 1t was noted
by her critics that she still continued es-
sentially feminine as TO many common
male accomplishments. She could not
throw stone except in that vague pawny
overland fashion usual with females,
which confers on the missile neither direc-
tion nor force; and when Anna Marie es-
sayed to run she still put everybody in
mind Of COW trying to keep an engage
ment.
But while others noted these solemn
truths, Anna Marie did not. She thought
she was making strenuous progress, and
combed her short hair exactly as man
combs his. and walked with a long, de-
cided stride.
Anna Marie rode a bike and at last
decided to don boomers for this cere-
mony. She came to the bloomer decision
hesitatingly, but made up her mind at
last. Secretely she regarded bloomers as
the rubicon. 1t was boomers which
flowed between herself and the new wo-
man In full standing; and once Anna
Marie had broken on the world in this
bifurcated costume she would feel her
self graduated and no longer at school to
her destiny.
Therefore there dawned day when
Anna Marie came down the avenue on her
bike. be-bloomered to your hearts con-
tent; she had made the plunge; the ru-
bicon was crossed, and Anna Marie felt
now like female Caesar who must con-
quer or die.
on the bike bloomer occasion Anna Ma
RE was weak enough to hurry She put
her unbridled steed to fullest speed. and
flashed by the onlookers like unto a two
legged meteor. She blamed herself after
ward for being such a craven, but con-
cluded that by sticking to her boomers
she would acquire heart and slacken
speed in time.
The worst feature about the bloomer
business was that Anna Marie didn't know
how hideous she looked. She did not
know that a printer on his way to his
case caught a tieeting impression of her
as she sped by, and that he at once put
on q sub. took a night off and became
dejectedly yet fully drunk Nor did she
wist that nervous person was so affected
! by the awful tout ensemble of herself
bike, and boomers that he repaired TO St
Elizabeth's and sternly demanded admis-
sion right away.
No; Anna Marie rode all to frightened
and too fast to reap these truths Still
she might not have altered her system if
she had known AS affairs stood, bent as
Anna Marie was on her completion as a
new woman, she resolved to inhabit
boomers and ride her two-wheeI vehicle
even into a gray old age. How else, indeed,
could she be a new woman?
A girl friend who had stood appaIIegl At
the vigor Of Anna Marie asked her as to
the boomers.
They are good things observed Anna
Marie. There IS a comfort in their dark
deep recesses which turks not in the tan
gled wilderness of the ordinary skirt.
| Their only fault is that in dawning bloom
ers one does not put them on over ones
head. 1t is a great defect. As it is. one
never feels more than half dressed. The
great want of the day is bloomers through
which one thrusts ones arms and head in
the process of Harvesting
Anna Marie had a brother George This
youth was twelve years of age George
was essentially masculine. Anna Marie
could see that, and it came to her as a
| thought that in the course of her becon.
ing new woman of fullest feather a
good, ripe method would be to study
George. Should she do as George did
Young though he was. she was sure to sue
coed. George would do from instinct what
she must do by imitation. Anna Marie
felt these things over. 1t so fell out that
without telling George, Anna Marie bega n
to take this youth for a guide, phiIoso-
pher. and friend, and all without really
| knowing 1t herself
| Unconsciously, George loved her all the
| better therefor, and moved by a warm in
genuous lack of years, began to take Anna
| Marie into his condolences like a true COM
rade. Anna Marie encouraged this.
And George" said Anna Marie one dav.
whenever you are about to do anything
peculiarly boysh and interesting ALWAYS
tell me so 1 can join you in your sport"
George said he would, and he did
II was what befell one day as the fruit
of this comradeship with George which
changed the channel Of Anna Marie's man.
ly determination and caused her to aban-
! don the role of a new woman. This is the
| story, and it all taught Anna Marie with
| the rush Of landslide that however she