The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-24
OUT AND ABOUT.

You are wondering why 1 wear a
short skirt when it is not raining?
asked Miss Radcliffe West-Side the
other day, as she met girl friend and
turned to walk back with her to the
Boston Store II don't think it looks
bad, do you? Anyway L am going to
wear it mornings all the time You
know I've just got home from a round
of visits in Boston and New York, and
all the smart girls in those places are
wearing them down town mornings.
They got so used to them at the beach
and the mountains they just hate to
give them up for trained skirts, so they
put off the evil day as long as they can.
Nobody thinks it strange, and if Boston
and New York can stand it, Worcester
can. This is my bicycle skirt. They
make bicycle skirts longer this year
than they did last, so it's all right,
isn't lt?" And the other girl then and
there registered a vow to go and do
likewise.
Speaking of bicycle skirts, a young
Worcester woman who went abroad on
bicycling tour with her husband re-
Gently had a chance to test public opin-
ion on that subject in at least two Eu-
it understood, was built at considerable
expense by a man tailor in New York,
and was as elegant and modest a con
fiction as a woman could hope for
When she rode in England, people
stood aghast Isn't that Just like
those horrid Americans?" they said.
Look al that skirt-its positively
vulgar; it's so short. How loud and
FAST"
u, Do. 1.
ride with bare knees, 1t was the same
only different. 'Oh. hot" they jeered,
Look at the prim little Puritan with
her long skirts. Such girlish modesty.
BAH"
One of Worcesters European tourists
came home this fall with a pitiful tale.
1t hadn't happened to her, but she had
met in Paris the young woman to
whom it did happen, and it was in this
wise:
Miss S. was going to be married some
time in the summer in London to an
Englishman. Before sailing for the
other side. she got her trousseau ready,
and as a bicycle trip through the lake
country was to be the honeymoon, she
equipped herself with a handsome BIZ
cycle suit. 1t was part of her plan to
travel in Italy for a few months before
containing her bridal trappings were
considerably in the way, she expressed
them back from Florence to Paris
through world-famous tourist agency.
to which travellers are wont to conflde
their possessions for safe keeping and
delivery
Arriving in Paris a week before the
wedding day. Miss S. was dismayed to
find no trace of her trunks The tourist
agency that had taken charge of them
was appealed to, but the officials of
that company only smiled amicably and
gayly declined to be held Responsible
for the missing boxes. Three DAYS
passed in fruitless telegraphing over
Europe in search of them, and of course
II is needless to say that the telegraph
ing came out of the young woman's
pocket. The trunks could not he traced
Four days before she expected to be
led to the altar of a smart MAYFAIR
church, making her first appearance
before a critical, half-hostile uoh Of
new English relatives and T,ondon
fashionables, the poor girl heart
broken at the loss of her frocks hired
cab and drove around Paris. collect
ing as pest she could a second trous-
seau. This is where my friend comes in.
for the Worcester woman is q veteraI,
traveller, who knows Paris as well IS
she knows Boston. and she was able 10
help her countrywoman in her distress
out OF her liberal knowledge of Paris
ian shops and shopkeepers,
So the American girl married her
english swell and did her country
proud In her improvised gown and ex
tempore bridal veil, and the censorious
relatives found themselves tonglie-
quieted. But it came as near being
tragedy as anything without bloodshed
could.
tomorrow evening the Common
wealth club will have it's first Ladies',
night OF the season. The entertain
ment Is In charRa Of w L II Nn,,rna