Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-15

for women, and he thought, up to the time of his present experience, that the time had come for it to be worn. Ladies in Denver wear it about the streets without annoyance. In San Francisco a restaurant keeper is doing a booming business because his waiter girls wear bloomers. Colonel Fitzgerald himself agreed to pay for the pretty, natty uni form for his girls It was of navy blue cloth, with kilt skirt reaching just be- low the knees, the bloomers underneath coming down over the knee. A jacket with brown vest having gilt buttons and jaunty little cap with the name of the restaurant on it in gilt letters completed the uniform. Black stockings and shoes with silver buckles were worn with it. Miss Kitty Moulton, quiet, slender and graceful girl, agreed to wear the uniform first, being paid well to do so She looked altogether neat and pret- ty "I say, colonel, she looks out of sight, remarked an enthusiastic patron of the house. Crowds were attracted to the restaurant, and heavy business at once commenced. But crowds were at the same time attracted to the sidewalk outside They gathered by the hundred; they blocked the sidewalk and obstruct- ed free passage What they did it for heaven only knows. One would have thought that boomers on bicycles were a common enough sight in so big city as New York and that the people had become accustomed to seeing all kinds of costumes among the foreigners there, so that they would not have to stop and gape open mouthed at one brave little girl attending to her waiter duties. But it seems this was not the case. The mob staid there hour after hour through the three days the experiment was contin- ued. Then fool police captain arrested the proprietor. One would think, again. that he ought to have arrested the crowd which blocked the sidewalk and con- mitted the offense against the law, but he did not. He arrested the man who tried to introduce bloomered waiter girls, and the experiment was aban- doned. Queer creatures New York peo- pie are; never saw very much of the world apparently.
 It begins to give one that tired feeling to see over and again on the so called woman's page of the newspapers such 0 pack of trash about what men admire in wives Give us now something about the qualities women admire in hus- bands.
 The bicycle has done much for wom- an. One woman at least has done some- thing for the bicycle. Miss B. S. Hutch ins of Big Rapids, Mich, has invented tire which is said to be an improve ment over the present one. Her improve ment consists in the fitting of small solid leather tire into groove in the common pneumatic tire, which increases its durability.
 A German anatomist, Professor Wal deyer, has wasted considerable valuable time trying to prove by a comparison of the human male and female bodies that woman is inferior to man. and should not therefore think of trying to compete with him in anything, but should, so to speak, quietly slide out and let him have everything his own way. Woman's blood is poorer and thinner than man's therefore she should not attempt higher education. Her vital energy is less than his, says Waldeyer; therefore she should not try to enter bread winning occupa- tions. But do not the fools who talk in this way see that these very facts, if they are facts, are all the more reason why woman should hustle and develop herself till she becomes mans equalp Every human being is entitled to make the highest and best of himself. If wom- an has less vital energy than man and less brain power, then that is all the more reason why she should go in with all her might for physical and intellectual culture till she brings herself up even. In this, for the good of the human race, she ought to be encouraged in all possi- ble ways by scientific gentlemen instead of being snubbed and sat upon by them.
 Eva A. Weed passed her civil service examination in an admirable manner and was appointed draftswomaD in the employ of the Brooklyn municipal gov ernment, with pay of $70 a month. Good.
 To the old-now very old-story that women must not vote because they can not fight, Lillie Devereux Blake responds that they could send substitutes, as Grover Cleveland did. And yet the American people admired this male woman so much that they elected hiBa twice to the presidency.
 The result of women's wearing short dresses will be that they will pay atten- tion to physical culture. When the feet and lower limbs are seen, it will not be long till women determine to make them strong and shapely. They will quit having those horrible, buniony feet which result from trying to wear shoes three sizes too small for them. A large foot, perfectly shaped, is much handsomer than a small one deformed till you would never know it.
 What is the good of a divided skirt if you have "a full length gore buttoned over the front?'
 Who made men, even preacher men,