The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

some clothes that are better, and leave
their old ones for any woman foolish
enough to wear them. They are not per-
fection by any means.
Woman's clothes are more agreeable to
the eve and offer greater advantages in
the way of concealing defects than do
those of her brother. 1t would be an ex-
cellent object lesson if we were compelled
to wear male garments long enough to
display the pigeon-toes, knock knees and
bowed legs, which are the result of CEN
turies of skirts.
We like our skirts, the diversity of color
is dear to our hearts and we cling to soft
laces and shimmering silk. A crowd of
women, seated or standing, is pleasanter
sight than a crowd of men. Our garments
are hard to manage, but we can do it, and
we do not sigh for the anxieties of trousers
that will bag at the knees or to wear tom b.
stones, minus the inscription, over our
chests. We can even resist that most
lovely bit of masculine adornment, silk
hat. Our clothes are growing palmer and
little more sensible year by year and we
are learning TO adapt the dress to the oc-
casion, that is all.
Boomers are going out, you know.
You know it because the Sunday papers as
sure it is so, not because it is true. Society
has discarded them. OF course. There is
nothing fiattering about bloomers; they
are regular searchlights. Society is not
going to exhibit its defects to the scorn of
the uEwashed.
Last year bloc mers were fad. They
were worn because it was the thing, and
worn alike by the snowy lamb and black
sheep. This year both extremes OF So
ciety have discarded them, the lower one
because the upper one did.
Society is not consistent, though. The
lowest of the low wear skirts to-day even
as do those who float on the froth of exist
ence.
Those who wear bloomers now weal
them because they fit the occasion. Books
and piles of books may be written tc
| prove that skirts are not in the way on g
wheel, and still the skirts will clog and
! impede, get on one side and crawl UP
| For the one who wheels around the block
once or twice to show a natty suit a skirt
is good enough, but for the girl who rides
to go somewhere, and must do it side by
side with her brother whose limbs are
free, skirt is a serious handicap.
Even in taking a long walk the extra
weight carried and the extra resistance
overcome by the wearer of skirts is equal
to half the labor and in going up and
down hill and up and down stairs they
add materially to the fatigue.
Half the diseases peculiar to our SCI
might truly be labeled ''skirt trouble"
But it spoils the form to make dresse:
SO the weight comes on the shoulders.
Let US have form by all means, by any
means. Let us form ourselves into
middie-aged women with drawn skinny
faces, hands like bird claws and propen.
sity for falling over in faint.
But let us have form!
Who cares for an inch or two inche,
more waist? If your friends love you foI
your waist they are not worth wasting
your breath on. Probably no one give:
the matter thought unless to wonder
why the tip of your nose gets red and why
you cannot walk without putting.
The girl who has waists on her skirt:
and doesn't wear a stiff corset has just a,
many friends and they like her just a.