The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-22
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:" For irreverenee,' he said.
We'll, l couldn't See anything wrong
in my justeusing my eyes if wanted
to and kept one looking. Why, all
the women and a. good many of the
men carried the funniest looking hand
bags. 81 ~
They weren't the little pretty leath-
er reticules and chatelaine bags they
used to affect few years ago. No,
sir; they were real business-like bags.
They were all of black cloth or gray
ribbed stuff and bound with black or
dark Russia leather. Some had them
stuffed with packages and things, and
they looked as if out foraging. Others
didn't seem to have a thing in the
bags, and apparently carried them just
as if they were articles of beauty and
adornment
"Of course the nose glasses were
there. / expectedlt that And the reso-
lutte. we're-the- equal-of- any-man ex-
preston was truly impressive. But
those hats and the gum shoes!
why, think of a whole street full of
women decked out in mems soft felt
hats with the crease and all. l had
| heard that they read Browning in
Boston, of course, but you know, some
how hadn't realized that almost the
entire population of Boston consisted
of women and that they all read
Browning! fremont street seemed to
me to be little else than felt hats and
| intellectually
Now. just why intellectually de-
mands overshoes that have leggins and
reach nearly to the knees, l don't UNI
| derstand, but such is apparently the
fact. My sisters here seem to have
decided that overshoes must have leg
gins almost equal to those the men
wear who cut logs up in the Wisconsin
lumber regions.
when we got back to the hotel. 7
noticed some women who We're entering
| the corridor and there We're the over
SHOES! Yes, sir, regular long-leggined
kind.
We'll, these overshoes made such an
, impression on me that I couldn't keep
the subject off nay mind and talked
so much about it to Jack that he offer
ed to take me to a Harvard professor
and have the matter explained or else
he was going to take me right back
West for he hadn't supposed Boston
was going to take so seriously with me
But I found a dear old lady here at
the hotel who gave me some points
, about overshoes and intellectually
She says that when women become in
tellectual they naturally pay less at
tention to fripperies and foolish adorn-
ments and that those whom 1 saw on
fremont street were earnest women
who had a purpose.
We'll, 1 just told her I didn't want
to have a purpose then. If I've got to
wear a felt hat, spectacles and that
kind of overshoes and a handbag,
never could stand being intellectual
That's all there is to it
But she said that as one came to
understand the principles of the health
reform movement one would realize
that highheeled shoes and thin soles
were unnatural and insufficient. She
said that broad, fiat heels We're so
healthful.
And homely,' 1 interjected.
Well, said the dear old soul bet
ter have fiat, heels than that kind of
head
Wasn't so bad, was it? Then 1 ask
ed her wherein consisted the absolute
necessity of everybody's wearing the
lumbermen's goloshes, and she told me
that all that was dictated by the en-
Hghtened regard for the perfect pro-
lection of health that prevailed partic-
ularly here in Boston. Isn't that a
sentence for you?
81 asked about the hand bags, and
she said that women here had decided
it was just as proper for women to
bring home a load as for the old man.
That was pretty good, too, don't you
think? My, she was a great old lady!
As for the felt hats. she declared
that a woman whose soul was full of
Browning didn't need ribbons and
things on her hat. She said the wo-
man was so fun Of soul that there
couldn't be room for anything else.
The old lady rather puzzled me- /
couldn't make out whether she was in
earnest or not. -
"Well. Jack was over on State street