The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-09

from Washington against the bicycle,
there is a woman getting ready TO start
out 10 crusade in its favor. This woman
is an ardent cyclist and firm friend Of Miss
Frances Willard. VINO claims 10 have
found her health In the revolutions Of the
two li;tle wheels
Charlotte Smith SAYS the cycle is in
furious from a moral standpoint and from
a physical one. II leads even TO immoral
dress-"dress which makes it easier 10 Go
wrong"
But the apostle for the wheel defends
the cycle on all these grounds. but spe-
cially on the one OF dress. 1t has led
and is leading" SAYS she, Ito better
dress physically. and even the layman
knows that perfect health and perfect
morals travel together, or along the
same road"
The two women will doubtless meet in
many town. the young women OF whieh
Will be alternately torn in mind by the
conflicting views. for both are convincing
writer's and speakers.
Il am done talking for rational dress
upon the wheel" says the cycle lecturer,
''fOr that has already been brought about
Many women wear boomers. Those who
do not are wearing short dresses, and
that is just as good.
But there is another step, and 1t Is that
for which / am talking; and this step is
TO perpetuate the bicycle dress To make
st a gown that women shall wear in the
house.
Now" says she, Strengthening into lee
ture attitude, and pointing with out
stretched finger towards the window and
a ma ~ Volt
out wheeling who would like to return
home except for the torture OF putting on
house dress. They are feeling healthy and
comfortable, but as soon as they get in
the house they must abandon comfort and
such health as they have gained and put
on long, heavy skirts and tight waists
again. The lungs that are now expanded
must be laced together The hips, now NOV
ing naturally, must be tied down and
weighted with tons of heavy skirts. The
knees that are positively revealing in their
new-found freedom must go back to the
old imprisonment. No wonder the women
linger along the high roads and in the by
ways, and ON stone fences and In hedges,
hesitating about going home and getting
dressed
at is for the cycle dress that I am GO
ing to speak. Not the cycle dress on the
wheel but the cycle dress I'm the house.
You have never seen such thing. Neither
have other people; but they will.
1.-THE cycle dress In the house Is short
one, that reaches little below the knees.
IL is to be put on on hot days or when
the cycist is tired. 1t can be made as fan
ciful as one pleases, but II is the length
and shape that make il what II is 1t must
hang loose from the shoulders and be
short Those two features are requisites.
Now, I expect to be told 1 am crazy.
Mrs. Bloomer suffered martyrdom in her
day for being crazy In the same way,
and now the women have erected monu-
ment to her memory for the courage of
her good convictions
Two years ago the women who went
bicycling in short dresses were considered
everything but that which they wanted
to be. They were called strong minded
and all that sort of thing. They were look
ed at askance by nice women and frown-
ed at by men who had their wives along.
It was a very sporty thing TO go to cycle
in a short dress. Why,I can remember that
considerable less than two years ago, one
Of the best magazines published what was
then considered a curious article, about
some ladies in cycling dress, with pictures
Of them mounting a wheel.
II merely mention these things be-
cause the memory of man Is treacher-
Gus, and you will find men and women
telling you that nothing new in dress
can be introduced. Nothing will be toll
Grated
with my house bicycle dress I expect
| opposition. Even Jenness Miller found
plenty Of II in her first days. But my
| house cycle dress will raise very storm.
THE feature of this dress is that It Is
to be put on in the house after wheeling.
It Is primarily intended for cyclists be-
cause they are the only ones who will
Y wear 1t. They have got used to short
| skirts and know how nice they are. They
are the ones who will take it up first.
1.-The short dress is a merry little affair
| of nice materials and as full of furbelows
| as you please. 1t can be absolutely fancy,
| high-necked, long sleeves, ribboned and
| trimmed as you like. But it is short.
"The shortness is its popularity, or
ono of them. The length Is. exactly the
same as a bicycle skirt, and II is TO be
worn in the same way, with CATERS, If
you must have them, or with dark stock
ings and slippers. 1t is sure to be be-
coming, just as cycle dresses are becoIn-
lady discernible from young one only
by her white hair.
The great advantages Of this dress
are that a woman's cycle cure con-
tinues all the time 1t is said but am
not going to say that am the authority
for 1t, that Frances Willard ana Lady
Henry Somerset, when they come IN from
cycling take bath, as all good cyclers
do. and then jump into nice little dress
on this order.
''.'rhe way to wear the cycle house skirt
Is first with boomers just as though
awheel. 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 slip a pair of stock
ings. Next comes this little cycle dress.
It is of silk and made as pretty as pos
slble.
I'm this rig the woman athlete is ready
to go on with her cure Her muscles,
now getting strength continue to i'm
prove She is now dressed for the day
at home In this neat little dress she
receives her callers, takes luncheon,
! lounges on the couch, looks out the win
dow and spends happy afternoon. She
is not wound up and frightened up into
those awful swathing things which wo-
men have so long worn. When it comes
dinner time she can don her conventional
! dress, II she pleases and spend a conven-
tiOnal evening. But many wear them all
the time, except for the street, then they
put on cycling dress.
Have you been TO the seashore this
summer? And If you have, were you
not envious of the men in their white
sweaters and trousers? You can't wear
the latter just yet, but you can wear
'one garment just as the men do. Yes,
and lots OF girls are doing it, though
they don't care to say a word about it
ror fear Of being thought too progress
i've.
I'm my lecturing wardrobe I am going
to take a full trunk of summer and au-
tuuop things They will be light things