The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-02
THE NEW WOMAN.
' as the Human Bo6y Created to Show
on CIothesf

conclude that the object OF creating the |
human body, especially womans body. |
was that il might show of clothes. i |
overheard two girls talking lately con- |
corning bicycle riding Ono Of them had
taken her first lesson. What you going |
to wear?' asked the other. "Oh. got
my bicycle suit first thing rs soon az /
made up my mind TO lerm TO ride
It's And then followed descrip-
ton of skirts and waists and hats and
belts and bicycle shoes and cuffs and
gloves so elaborate that an experienced
wheelman would question the sanity OF
young woman who proposed TO carry
all that dry goods about her OH bicycle.
| A fashion article / noticed the other
day gives most astounding conglomer-
alton of stuff for the really swell wheel
woman's garb. Her jacket and her
blouse were to be bewildering array
Of lace and silk and wool and velvet and
embroidery that would look overloaded
anywhere. even upon milliner's dunn
my. Her hat must be of light straw
"ornamented with loops Of ribbon and
closely fitting flowers |" The skirt, what
ever the material, must always be lined
with flannel" The knickerbockers must
be of the same material as the skirt, and
oh, ye powers!-''lined with wash
leather" Underneath the compilation
of lace and silk and embroidery and vel
vet which form the jacket and the sh 1T
waist the fashionably attired wheel
woman was to put "long sleeved, high
neoked, thin jersey and slip bodice
over the wooden corset" Think Of the
young woman going out for 80 mile
spin with, above her ordinary under
clothing, a wooden corset, jersey,
slip bodice, shirt waist and jacket,
with knicker bockers lined with wash
leather. her already heavy skirt lined
with flannel and straw hat! tell you
there are occasions when even women
give me that tired feeling. On the whole,
it is not strange that men sometimes
consider women too idiotic to vote in
diligently. The original and only true
object of dress was as covering for the
} body. The only nealthful and suitable
clothing is that which impedes the ac-
ton of the body as little as possible.
This can be made thoroughly tasteful
, and artistic too. Instead of piling clothes
upon our bodies as our great-grand'
, mothers piled bed coverings upon theiI
families when they slept we should veal
lust as little as is necessary for comfort.
Let us not clog the millions of pores OF
our skin with dust and lint from textile
) | fabrics any more than is necessary. The
] lighter the clothing, so that 1T is com
Portable, the healthier and handsomel
J the human body will be-
Miss Edith A. Reiffert, plucky ant
: persevcring girl who has made her owl
Q way in the world altogether as well a
= helping others, has just been admitted
: to the bar to swell the list of womel
9 lawyers in New York city.
7 Apropos of these political times, d
+ you know the difference between plu
rality and majority?
y The German university Of Bonn, o
e the Rhine, is now open to women IN a
!. its departments. One by one the stiles
It Of the old strongholds falls.
l. Grace Barton Allen, daughter of thf
le sweet and gifted poet, Elizabeth Akei
(. Allen, is proving that she, too, has ger
y Jus. She not only writes strong au
!" dainty verse, but she is an admirabl
~ painter in water colors and is maxim
10 her art successful commercially. One
to her most beautiful recent pictures is
IF study In Pansies published as SUI
a Element TO an art periodical. The youn
I. fNrsDC 81
Is these picturesque and splendid blossom
IN A Tammany man and Democrat Il
:" other day advanced one of the very be
70 arguments for woman suffrage l ev'
~ heard. 1t was that the greater the nun
ar Der of voters the harder it would he
r. buy them all up. Therefore he favors
It. women voting.
nv Remember when you use those III
On smoothing irons that come in DO
n with one wooden handle to fit into the
10 and take out and put in as fast as o.
TO gets cold and you need hot one, tn
70 this convenient arrangement is the
vention of woman, Mrs. Potts. bles
!. ings on Mrs. Pottsl
MS The new American university
nd Washington, which promises to be I
as most complete in the country when 1t
IT. finished, has three women on its boa
ed of trustees. They are Mrs. John A. L
cd gan, Mrs. Matthew Simpson and Nj
De- Elizabeth Somers.
ne Miss Rebecca S. Rice, principal OF
ne Girls Collegiate school, Chicago, is
". trustee of Antioch college. at Yell'
mo- Springs, o.
RAJ One of the ablest text and referer
az books published recently is The Spei
' o or of the House of Representatives
he Miss M. Z. Follett.
70. - ~ CD
Over and again, with George SAND
by say: 81 crave not jewels and dresses
ted society. What long for is liberty. "
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