The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-07-18

the light, quotha Ay, marry come
up. Turn the calcium on me please.
Why. this era of the legs will lona
DE remembered in history. Does my
lady care to waltz? Not particularly.
She has learned that man is not 4
necessity in a ballroom. She can do
,he skirt dance or wriggle throug',
the bewildering mazcs of the serpen-
tine much better without partner.
The little girls on the street who
dance 10 the lascivious pleasing of
the tinkling street piano kick their
way to and fro, from wall to curb, in
many fantastic and far reaching
capcr. The dancing master can Civ
the patient but sudden mule points
in the zehra-legged ones own special
ty. And if the dancing master of to-
day could drop into minuet Of your
grandmothcr's time he woulG produce
much the same effect which q nissan
thropic hornet does when Ie Volun-
tarily takes part in the closing eXer-
cises of a camp meeting
Does my lady sit down for a little
sinks, with most sinuous Delsartcan
grace, upon a sofa carrying a deck
load of cushions. and displays
straightway an eXpanse OF sGppered
foot, clicked ankle and adjacent anat-
omy that makes a hashful man so
nervous he instinctively hides his own
feet under his chair and forgcts what
he was going TO say. She rides TO
the hounds--or is it "awfter the
GUNS? '-with a display of legs that
makes the long-limbed dog take sec
ond place, although he had two 70
her one 70 begin with and YOU would
naturally suppose she started out
heavily handicapped And as though
leg was the soul of the animate uni
verse, last summer the equestrian
woman had a fad of having her sad
dler's legs clipped; just his legs;
which, contrasting sharply in color
with his silky body, gave the poor
brute the aspect of having his trousers
rolled up, like a wading boy
Legs? They are what the cause of
pmancipated woman stands upon.
When the short walking dress ceased
to be novelty, she put on the di-
vided skirt and rode straddle. You
can see her, here and there in the
land ambling along the avenue like
a heavily draped clothspin, while that
noble animal. the horse, which she
bestrides. plainly intimates to the
spectators that it isn't his fault, and
that he greatly regrets having left
his binders at home on the coach
harness. The divided skirt was fairly
knocked out by the golf costume,
which was easily shortened for basket
bali, until at last she laid hands upon
the knickerbocliers which had been
the monopoly of masculine youth, put
them on and straddled her bike like
little man. And out in Chicago she
put side pockets in them, wore them
to school. and taught the young idea
how to shoot and walk, until the
school board, so sensitive and con
sentative are the men of the wild and
woolly west, sternly babe her put on
her ulster or take off her knicker
bockers. She put on the ulster.
But what's the use of talking?
Brother man, we may as well submit
gracefully. We have lost She distin-
gushing garment of our sex. But it
is our own fault For centuries, our
fathers before us, and we after them,
have made bitter and sarcastic sport
of woman's gear, no matter how often
or how she radically changed it. She
has never yet been able to please
capricious man. Man, who wears
sheet-iron collar. cast-steel cuffs, an
infieNible breastplate on his shirt, and
stoyepipe hat as graceful end com
Portable as a section of a pump log.
and then makes fun of woman's most
ill-considered and uncomfortable dress
We proved again and again, by her
very dress, her mental and physical
inferiority TO man, and her utter in
capacity for doing mans work in the
world. Again and again, not for one
or two years, but for generations, we
urged her to adopt the very dress she
is now beginning to wear And now
that she puts il on we kick harder
than ever. Brethren, it does no good.
For now, behold you, she can kick
back. That is the gall of il. We have
foolishly let the genius out of her
bottle, and she isn't all smoke, after
all. She is "onto us" 1t is not de-
MED that she smokes cigarettes. Not
under the rose. but whenever and
wherever she sees fit. 1t is whispered,
n large, clear print, that she tipples
more than her grandmother did. 1t
IS in evidence that when the governor
If New York tainted on decoration
lay, in all the crowd of both sexes
n the reviewing stands, the govern
Jfs OF neither of the Carolinas being
present, the only pocket pistol to he
iound was in the pocket of young
lady, and it was loaded to the muzzlc
with good old brandy of the ''drinker-
down" brand. And it wasn't in oae
of the hidden pockets which last
years woman carried concealed on
her person, either. Because it was
found inside of half an hour. 1t
came out as promptly as the flask of
Il candidate Yea more DroODt1y for