The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
on Life...
BY LAL.

"Seemliness in all things" Somewhere
have heard that expression, and / have
thought lately how applicable it is to our
girls and young women who ride bicycles.
Always an ardent advocate of the bicycle
for women, have lately also become an
advocate for dress reform for the major
ity of t4ose who ride. The accepted cos
tune for women who ride horseback, has
been dark habit, snugly fitting, and a
small hat, sometimes a high silk hat, very
much like a mans. A woman so dressed,
ought to hold good for bicycle costume
But lately some of our girls and women
riders have been arrayipg themselves for
their rides, exactly as they have always
done for their afternoon promenade.
White pettcoats, very much ruified and
stained, are decidedly out of place on a
wheel. Lawn dresses and yards of ribbon
floating in the wind, may look picturesque
but hardly seem the thing for bicycling.
dark skirt of eavy material will do
away with the necessity for underskirts
a small hat or cap is more comfortable
and vastly more becoming than her best
hat piled high with roses. A shirt waist
is sufi GENTLY loose to admit of free move
ment of the body, and yet preserve the
tidy look so desirable. A b-oad leather
belt will preserve the unity between the
skirt band and waist. And there you
are" ready for comfortable ride, and not
particularly apt to worry about dust or
possible rain, and feeling at the same
time, that you are not making yourself
visible or audible for blocks.
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Philadelphia society has been shocked
all the way through, because one of lite
elect has had the temerity to please only
himself in choosing wife. The greatest
objection to the lady, next to her poverty
was her ''lowly origin" or as the society
papers put it nowadays, cher obscure par
entage." What jolly laughs Adam and
Eve, and Noah could have, If it were pos
sible for them to read or hear OF the i'm
portance we attach nowadays to our for
bears. provided some one OF them did
something sufficient for us to brag about.
We Americans get angry when any body
calls US snobs, but at the same time we are
degenerating into the very worst species of
that iIk. OF course it fills us with pa
triotic sort of pride if We know we can
claim even distant relationship with
some of the brave, elrless men or women
who helped found this glorious country,
and whose energy and pluck made it pos
sible for us to enjoy all we do today. But
when it comes tc our erecting pedestals for
ourselves, and then climbing uu on them
with my family tree is bigger than
yours" feeling, hen 1t is ridiculous There
was an old verse which caught my eye
one day. and it was something like this:
"When Adam delved and Eve span, where
was then the gentleman Simply be-
cause ones ancestors have become famous,
thereby bringing ones name prominently
before the world, is no reason why we
should assume all the virtues of the ia
nous one, and quite lose sight of the vices
which some of the sane name possessed.
The man of the old Philadelphia name is
to be congratulated on having chosen a
wife who was in exactly the same station
in life which some of his away back grand
mothers occupied.
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