Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-11
THE NEW WOMAN.
Next Seasons Bicycle Dress as Pictured
by EVIL Mind.

Next Seasons Bicycle Dress as Pictured
by an EVIL Mind.
A New York paper goes out Of it's
way to offer one of the most gratuitous
| insults to the feminine sex that I have
ever seen. It speaks of the fashion of
bicycle dress for women, saying that
| the style for next summer will be knick-
erbockers. Women bicycle riders, it says,
will by common consent don knicker-
bockers instead of skirts because they
are tired of the dangers and discomforts
arising from wearing skirts on the
wheel. If the paper had stopped there,
nothing more would have needed to be
said, and we should never have known
how stupid and malicious the writer of
the paragraph could be. But he or she,
as the case may be--suppose we say
''it' for CONFERENCE.-The not sense
enough to know when to shut up. 'sIt"
goes on to picture the sights that will
greet the public gaze when this happens.
With pencil dipped in the gall of mall
ice 'it'' depicts the lower extremities
of the fat woman who wants to reduce
her flesh; also the pedal Examinations
of the schoolteacher of uncertain age'
who takes to the bicycle for her health.
It says it will be awfully frightened
when these and other varieties appear
in miekerbockers. / cannot conceive of
a bigger idiot than this writer, on my
soul I cannot Here we have been gaz-
ing on men cyclists wearing knicker-
bockers for years, and nobody's blood
has ever been curdled by the sight. Fat
men, men with shanks like the skeleton
dude, men with ankles like lamppost,
men with bowlegs and knock knees,
men 80 years old and under-these have
been familiar to us on the wheel since
the year !, and nobody thinks anything
of it, Mems calves and ankles are not
80 slightly as women's yet it is all right
for men to wear knickerbockers or even
tights if they SO choose. 1t is their pre-
rogative, their divine right, and no.
body's business. No fool space writer
falls upon them with savage pen and
describes their lower limbs, unsightly
or otherwise But the moment woman
tries to appear in safe, clean and COM
Portable costume for the wheel, then the
pack of hounds are after her, hue and
cry, tearing her to pieces. Ingersoll was
right when he said this world was not
yet fit for woman to live in,
think the woman for whom have
most respect this week is the one who
has dared to earn So day by being a
human sandwich" on Fourteenth
street, New York. She walks back and
forth along one or two blocks carrying
the conspicuous advertisement of cigar
and tobacco store. Many men carry such
signs, but this is the first woman to do
SO. We may perhaps speak of her cor
rectly as the woman who dared. The
novel advertising is bringing large
trade to the tobacco shop. The firm had
tried for good while to get woman
to display their sign on the street; but,
although they found many who We're al
most starving for want of work, they
encountered none previous to this one
with the clear grit to perform the task.
Good luck to herl So say we all.
a weak man and depraved woman
or a weak woman and a depraved man
can heap up for themselves in few
years of this life a record that will
make satan blush, a record that it will
take millions of years for them to erase.
A handsome, refined and talented
young lady of my acquaintance, Miss
Edith J. Griswold has gone into the
patent and trademark business on her
own account in New York city. When
an invention or trademark is placed be-
fore her for examination, she searches
into the records of patents already
granted at Washington to see whether
anything like the applicant s device has
previously been made, She examines all
kinds of inventions, trademarks and
labels. foreign as well as domestic. The
young lady is an excellent French
scholar and has already had large ex-
perience in the line of work she has now
adopted in an office of her own.
When Lieutenant Governor Brush
opened the joint session of the Colorado
legislature this year, he began, Ladies
and gentlemen of the Eleventh general
assembly of Colorado =
Mary Roberts Smith is assistant pro-
fessor of sociology in Leland Stanford
university.
Among the delegates to the national
assembly of the League of American
Wheelmen at Albany was Miss Flora
Woodbury. of Danyille, Ills. Miss Wood
bury is the first woman delegate to
national meeting of the league. She is
famous wheeIwoman and has done the
century run.
Ladies of New Jersey take active in
terest in the work of forest preservation
They are working members of the State
Forestry association, and one of them,
Mrs. John G. S. Davis, is it's president,
while Miss Susan Lippincott is mem
ber of the executive committee. When
woman takes wholesome, living in
terest in nature and outdoor life, you
may be sure she possesses more than or
dinary intellectual power.
observe among the names of the
standing committee of the organized
remonstrants against woman suffrage
that of Miss Van Wrinkle. If there ever
was anything in harmony with the
eternal fitness of things, it is that an
opponent of woman suffrage should be
named Van Wrinkle. And her initials
ought to be r. L P.
The engrossing clerk of the Utah
house of representatives is Mrs A. U.
Hobson
Take notice that the act to confer full
parliamentary suffrage on women in
Great Britain has passed to its second
reading in the house of commons and
that the constitutional committee of the
Massachusetts, Legislature has made
report recommending the word male
to be stricken from the qualifications for
suffrage. ELIZA ARcHARD CONNER
Writing Leaders For the London Times.
dined with Mr. Walter and his son
in Printing House square at O'Clock
and found that was expected to write
an article there and then on one of the