The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-04

GIRLS IN PANTALOOES.
ola Fashioned Females in New Fash
toned Clothes That they Wear
With Modest Lack of SeIf-Con-
seriousness.

II trousers signify higher feminine CIV
li-zat-on then the most progressive WON
3 en- or the century are the female -nuIe-
leers and goat herders of Switzerland
me conventional ease with which these
Aard working girls OF the higher Aims
wear wear their breeches, would fill DR.. Mary
S w Ike VITA envy and take the tlnid
ulSsS reIormer breath away Tor .,la m
Ugly hoine-spun pantaloOns are their
u1Ay ana only costume for the hest M IT
OF the year These masculine sarulen-s-
HoWeVer are not n the least 81
as q DadSe of bold indepenaancs nv -
Aiplne damsels, or in recognlt.on or eo,IaI
f-ghtS WIN men, and nobody Womb he
more astonlshed than one OF these herds
woman. - III"
As a matter of fact. she spends her life
100 hlsh out OF the valleys TO know,
s 1-. .nins al al OF modern progress
feminine or otherwise, and her nanta-
loois are worn for storm convenience
cA--- ana IN obedience 10 the riaors Of
tne rough, hard LIE she leads. Faev are
,,e-i-d woven hand sewed. cut out on a
se4s eSiy pattern, ana are ABOUT the
only uniform suitable Tor the specjaI
"oiE ana climate, known on the higher
APPS. -SA
Moreover. breeches came into fasbio,
on The Overland long before boomers ar
rived or the bicycle Irouserettes Appeared
70 excite pUonc comment Somebody
w. oouSed 10 look after the goats and
enough men 10 Go II, when factory work
ana eniZration began to make inroads
on the rural districts of Switzerland, SO
the nardy Swiss woman took The mot
ter actively in hand There was no
ninchlnS, either, from any of the duties
involved, and the betrousered girls. VINO
run ABOUT the Alpine uplands are Won
dertuI workers. They wear in addition
10 the hideous breeehes, hob-na,Ied shoes
BESIDE which coW-hde brosan or n
Wooden saDot, Is a dainty slipper. their
nsaus are rarely covered ana d sort OF
pam, seml-masculine linen shirt with
close wool purkin, complete the Drimi-
i've costume. From early in The sDrinn
" late IN autumn these Duxom Switzers
I Nl, upon ehe mountains life that any
mississippi steamboat roustabout would
think hard. Rye bread picked cabbage
stalks, and gobS of tough cured meat is
their diet, and though herding cows and
EoAts not a drop OF milk nor spreading
Oh butter ever graces Their rough meals
Every day is spent watching the cattle
on the mountain pasture and reapins the
.ouSh Alpine grass. At shutdown the
pens, about little hut. and the reaped
grass packed home on the herdsWo-na n &
back. By dusk everybody has gone to
bed. number of women living foyer bar
in one hut, and at 2 O'Clock in the morn
lng breakfast is eaten. the milking be-
gins and off 10 the pasture girls and
nerds tramp again. Beside cutting and
storing the winter supply of cattle food
these women carry down on their backs
all the firewood needed during the
months of snow; and sleep. clad all in
their working costume. on sacks of dried
nay or leaves, laid over the hard floor.
II would really be difficult and absurd
to picture such heroically sordid labors
carried out in all the useless incouyer,i-
ences of flowing skirts, but the prefer
ence for the petticoat springs eternal in
the feminine breast. and if anything
would prove the fruitlessness OF try
ing 10 persuade women to adopt blur
Gated garments the example of these Al
zine herders should. When the summer
season IS over. the cattle ready 10 de-
scend to the valley and the mountain
actually scraped clean of everything eds
bic. either by man or beast. these vigor-
Gus young ladies get promptly into the
garb of their sex. This is the
very first thing they do on getting home
TO the valley, or even before ne descent I
begins, especially if; by jodeling across I
the highlands, some distant Young herds I
man has signified his desire to drive his !
foclSs home in the company of a par
ticularly good-looking young herds !
maiden. With the wisdom earned through |
s. coo years of experience this sober, dull /
over-worked girl knows the subtle i'm |
pcrtance of suitable and conventional !
dress. of her femininity inseparable from |
her draperies, so the trousers are hung /
high, TO wait for another season, when 4
thew viii be worn for the exclusive bene- /
fit of the blandly Indifferent cattle