Arizona republican., 1896-03-18
A PAIR OF DLOOMERS.
Why Mrs. Cranston's Husband AL
 lowed Her to Wear Them.

Before bicycling became craze with women there had never been so much as shadow of quarrel between Mir. and Mrs. Cranston. But after Mrs. Gran ston bought bicycle and learned to ride well, there was a disagreement which came very nearly breaking up a happy home. They had been married three years, and they had often said that their married life had been one long honeymoon.
 Tom had yielded so readily to all of his wife's whims that she had uncon- sciously gained an opinion that her word was to him like the laws of the Medes and the Persians.
 But this idea was all knocked to pieces when one morning as they sat at breakfast Mrs. Cranston said:
 ''Tom, I'm going to order my dress maker to make suit of boomers for me to-day. I do so much bicycling now that the skirts are too heavy for me-"
 "What!" shouted Tom, dropping his spoon in the oatmeal and splattering
 
 her as though she had announced that she was going to commit suicide.
 Mrs. Cranston also dropped her spoon and looked in surprise at her husband. ''I said," she repeated, that 1 was going to get a bloomer suit. What strikes you as particularly strange about that?"
 EtyTbot Ct orlry stranger" he repeated, with wild look in his eyes. Do you think for one mo- ment that I will allow my wife to race around town looking like a Autograph of variety entertainments? Not much"
 But Tom" said Louise, in tone that had never failed to persuade her husband that she was right and that he was wrong, T don't see why l can't have boomers. Mrs. Kynaston and Mrs. Bentley and Mrs Jennings all wear them and their husbands don't object, so why should you?'
 ''It makes no difference why I should, " said Tom, doggedly. T don't intend to have my friends or the ex- change coming to me and saying: Tom, see your wifes wearing bloom ers.' Not if know it. 5
 But, Ton, she began, "I-"
 "Oh, don | talk any more nonsense, Louise" lie broke in. q am sick of it. You shan't wear bloomers, so that set ties it., and MT. Cranston, whose ap- petite had been taken entirely away by his wife's announcement, got up from the table and started for the door.
 ''Good-by," he called from the hall, and then the door slammed and Louise sat at the breakfast table wondering how it was that she had never before known that her husband had will of his own.
 She had told all of her friends only the day before that she would be wear ing boomers within week, and when they had suggested that her husband might object she said
 'What! Tom object? Why, he never object" to anything"
 And now Tom had absolutely refused to allow her to wear them, with fa- cial expression which showed that he would not stop short of the divorce courts to prevent it.
 Finally she arose from the table and went to her room.
 She had an idea which she thought, if properly carried out, would gain Toms consent to the wearing of bloom CTS. She wrote hurried note to he1 dressmaker ordering a bloomer suit o1 a pattern which she had already se lected, and then donned her old bicycle suit to pay a call on Mrs. Kynaston who had a husband who did not object to boomers.
 She told her troubles to the vivacious Mrs. Kynaston, who was not sparing in her sympathy for the poor friend who had a narrow-minded husband who objected to a convenient bicycle dress.
 ''Why, how foolish of him." she said ''I don't believe the poor man ha: ever seen a proper bicycling costume I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll al go bicycling this afternoon, and come back by your house at just the time your husband gets home, and he vii see what bloomer suit looks like"
 And so the bicycle party was ar ranged, and when Thomas cranstor arrived at his house that evening ht saw five women riding in front of tht house and four of them were in ful bloomer costume. The fifth, who wore skirts, was his wife.
 He was not so badly shocked as ht thought he would be, and he wished that he had not been so decided in hi refusal of his wife's request, but ht made up his mind that it would be un