The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-09
LEADS TO BETTER DRESS.
1.-The Cyclienne For Wear After
Bicycle Journey.
Gives Nerves and Muscle
a Chance to React.

While Charlotte Smith, president OF
the WOman's Rescue League. is crusad-
ing from Washington against the bicycle,
there is a woman getting ready to start
out to crusade in it's favor. This WOMEN
Is an ardent cyclist aud firm friend OF
Miss Frances Willard, who claims TO have
found her health In the revolutions OF the
two little wheels.
Charlotte smith says the cycle Is in
furious from moral standpoint and from
physical one. L. leads even. to I'M
moral dress-"dress which makes IL easier
To do wrong" Inn. ..,.-
Hut the apostle for the wheel defends
the cycle ON all these grounds, but es-
petially on ths-one or dress. III has led
and is leading says she, TO better
dress physically. and even the laymsin
knows that perfect health and perfect
morals travel together, or along the same
road"
The Two women will doubtless meet in
many a town. the young women OF which
wIiI be alternately torn in mind by the
conflicting views. for both are convinc-
I'M, writers and speakers.
Il am done talking tor rational dress
upon the Wheel says the cycle lecturer,
for that has already been brought sbDut
Many women wear bloGmers. Those who
do not are wearing short dresses. aud
HAT is just as good. -'--7
CYCLE DRESS FOR THE HoISE.
But there is another step, and il is
that for which / am talking. and this
step is to perpetuate the bicycle dress
To make 1t gown that women shall
wear in the house.
Now" says she, STRENGTHENING into lee
tire attitude, and pointing with out
stretched finger toward the window and
The Imaginary cyciienaes- ''yon see women
out wheeling who would Ike to rpturn
home except for the torture OF putting on
house dress. They are feeling tealthy a,d
comfortable, but as soon as they get in
.n= house they must abandon Comfort nd
such health as they have gained and put
on long, heavy skirts ana tight waist
again. The lungs that are now expanded
must tie laced together. The hips. now
loving naturally, must be tied down and
weighted with tons Of heavy skirts. The
Nu.es that are positively revealing in their
i1cw- found freedom, must 20 lack to the
old imprisonment. No wonder the women
finger along the high roads and in tie by
ways ana on stone fences and in hedges,
ncsatsfins about going home and getting
dressed
IL Is for the cycle dress that am going
to speak Not the cyrie Grcss on the wncei,
bu: the cycle dress in the eouse- You have
never seen such a thing. Neither have
t.Iuer pc opi.; tut they will. -
The cycle dress in the house is o short
one, that reaches little below the knees.
IL IS 10 be put on On hot days. or when
the cyc;is;is tired. IJcaE be made Us fanci-
ful as one pieases. but IL is the length and
shape that ma kes IL what il is. 1; mast hang
loose from the shouldersand beshort- Those
two features are requisites.
Now, l expect to be told | am crazy.
Mrs. Boomer suffered u mart yrdom IN
her day for being crazy in the same
way. and now The women have erected
u monument to iier memory for the courage
OF her good Convictius.'
Two years ago the women who went
bicycling IN short dresses were considered
be. They were called strong minded ami
all that sort OF thing. They We're looked
at askance by nice women and frowned at
by men who had their wives along it was
u very sporty thing TO 20 to cycle in a
short dress. Why, / can remember that.
oonsidcra biy less Than two years ago, one
OF the best mag aZines published what was
some ladies in cycling dress. with pictures
of them mounting Il wheel.
WILL WIN IT'S WAY.
Il merely mention these things because
the memory OF man is trcaciIerous, and you
will find men and women telling you that
nothing new in dress can be Introduced,
Nothing will be tolerated.
with my house bicycle dress / expect |
opposition. Even Jenness Miller found
plenty O. il in her first days. But my house
cycle dress will raise very storm.
The featur,. OF this dress is that it is |
to lie put en- in the house after wheeling
IL is primarily inteDded for cyclists to |
cause they are the only ones who viii |