Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1911-03-03
WANTS 2 NEW LAWS.
Memo Would Jail Women Who
Ride Horseback Astride and
Harem Skirt MearerS.
Written for the Winchester Star by
Memo.

Written for the Winchester Star by
Memo.
We cannot be accused of meddllng
with public affairs or trying to IN
struc. our counciImen how to run the
city, bat we hope that they will, IN the
interest of public morals, make anu
enforce few laws. In the first place,
we would have them arrest every wo-
man who is bold enough to ride horse
back in man fashion, and then to ar
rest and jail every woman who is 1901
enough to adopt the hideous harem
costume and wear it on the street.
To go back to the manly woman
who straddles her horse in cowboy
style: We had seen such unseXeo
creatures in circus procession, but IL
was il a mountain town OF a few
thousand inhabitants that we first saw
a person who poses as lady riding
m an-fa shion, and costumed as nearly
as possible like man: a divided skirt
that might as we'll have been trousers,
a manly coat and hat, a stiff collar,
a man 5 tie, and bold swagger air
made up a creature that seemed to be
a composite of the sexes, and neither
N an or woman. If the angels eve- do
weep. we feel sure that they do so
when a woman is not satisfied with
her own elevated position as wo-
man and tries to turn herself into
miserable caricature of mao. If all
the rest of the world upholds women
riding horseback in cavalry style we
shall still denounce it as bold, i'm
modest, unwomanly fashion and
preiudicial to the natural instincts OF
women of refined feelings and good
principles. The side-saddle that wo-
men rode safely through so many cen
turtles represents the rightful differ
ence between a mans ways and a wo-
mans ways.
Why will women try to be parodies
in place of being the real thing that
God and nature designed them to be
the life givers 10 the physical world
and the sole elevators in the moral
world.
But it is only the real woman who
help to raise the trend of the world
upward, and they do not as rue
prefer to ride in cowboy style. There
lis only one creature in the world more
lcontemptible than manly woman,
land that Is womanly man. AS
IShakespears says, ga woman bold
aud impudent grown is not more
lloathed than an effemlnate man in
thine of action"
Yes. we will endorse menfolks in
making laws to prevent women from
copying them in dress and riding
astride.
AS for lady smoking or drinkin g
Int is vulgar to suppose that they cou d
lido so. As regards the new fashlt Il
in skirts, we thought that the limit OF
lugliness and vulgarisy had be .
reached with the ''horrible hobble,
bat it is said to be dream of beaut' \
lby the side of the new skirt that is a
ready arriving in this country flo
Paris. The harem costume consist:
of the baggy trousers and loose boo.
ldrapery that has been worn for on
a thousand years by the Moslem 81
men who are shut up in the secluC', {
Iharems of the men who buy NUM-
Iof wives the same as they buy tfei
slaves. The harem costume has bee
that of the slave women from the d =,
of Mahomct. and the idea that !
should be copied by the American VIC
imam of today is suprenely ridiculous
If the women of our city are feoi
ienough to follow such fashion, O
become bold enough to ride mar
fashion, We hope that our lawn 1t =
will rise in wrath and forbid il.