The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-09
Mrs. Charlotte Smiths
Crusade Against the
Wheel to Be Met by a
Friend of Hiss Frances
Willard.

wear it, They have got used to short
skirts and know how nee they are. They
are the ones who will take il up first
The short dress is a merry little afflir
or nice materials and as full of furbelows
as you please. 1t can Lee absolutely fancy,
high necked, long sleeves, ribboned and
trimmed as YOU like. But 1t is short
The shortpess is its popularity. one
OF them The length is exactly the same
as bicycle skirt and IL is to be wcrn in
the same way, with cutters, if you must
have them, or with dark stockings and
slippers 1t is sure 10 lie becoming, Just
us cycle dresses are becoming to evcryt
woman. making an old lady discernble
from young one only by her whit. hair.
THE great advantages OF this dress
are that womaD's cycle cure con-
tinues all the time. 1t is said, but / am
not going TO say that 1 ani the authority
for it, that Frances Willard and Lady
Henry Somerset. when they come in from
cycling. take hath. as all good oyclers
do. and then jump into a nice little dress
Oh this order. g.
The way to wear the cycle house skirt
is first with boomers, just as though
awheei. No women are wearing those
muslin undertakings nowadays. That is, no
women who are athletic. The starched
ruffies would drive them crazy.
They Jump into tights, perhaps silk
ones, and over these, which reach from
ankle to chin, they ship pair of Stockings
Next comes this little cycle dress 1t is OF
silk and made as pretty as possible
IN this rig the woman athlete is ready
to go on with her cure Her muscles.
now getting strength. cont inue to i'm
prove. She is now dressed for tile da y at
home. In this neat little dress she receives
her callers, takes luncheon lounges on the
couch. looks out the window. and spends a
happy afternoon She is not wound I'D AMI
tiGhtened up into those awful swathing
things which women have so long worn
When it comes dinner time she can don her
conventional dress, IL she pleases. and
spend conventional evening. But many
wear them all .Ee time except for the street,
then they put on Il cycling dress.
ONE GARMENT
Hare yOI been 70 the seasbore this sum-
iner? And IL you have, were you not en-
siO.s OF the men IN their white sweaters
and trvuSers7 You can't wear tire latter
Just yet, but you can wear one garnoat'
just as the men do. Yes, and lots OF girls
are doing IL, though they cont da,r to
say word about it. for fear of being
Thought LOO progressive
In my lectiiriDg wardrobe am goia-tu
take fun trunk of summer AMI autumn
things. They will be light things for hot
days and heavier o1es for cool da -. When
4 ieCture Sncu adapa m ySet1 to TIE day
and change my dress once or twice. and
/ am going to do it before the audience,
which Will consist exclusively OF girls aud
women
1T is claimed that a short holse dress
is horribly innoGest. Well. we shall se-..
When the bicycle skirts came in and
women mounted the wheel in them and
rode the wind. grandmothers remained at
home to pray for the girls modesty.
Might it never disappear utterlyr Now
people who call bicycle skirt anything
but the neatest and sweetest thing in tie
world are harl to find. Everybody admires
the neat little rig.
SO with my house cycle dress 1t will
grow in favor. When lecture sballstand
upon chair, SO that all shall get good
view of my bcuse cycling dress. and dare
any one TO say it is Eot pretty and nice.
OF course don't pretend that it is all
for beauty alone. That wolid he foolish
But l do hold that il is for health. 1 con-
tend that IL is next to idiotic for q woman
to spend time and money in rett NJ heT
health awheel, and then spoil ii all by
tightening UP beierc she has had a chance
to get Ter breath fully.
Il predict that there will be luncheon
parties next winter in bicycle house dresses,
Il nd that you will find 4 woman planning
her cycle dress for the house the same as
for the wheel. II is che OF those healthful
things that are bound to come when an en-
ergctic agitator liAe myself gets bold OF
them.
HELEN WARD.