New Britain herald., 1922-01-14


 an eye can see. Thus far, the prac- ticc has been confined mostly to sports, such as skating, but number of girls are wearing them while shop ping and some have been seen all dressed up like Brother Bill at the afternoon performances In the thea ters,
 In several other cities, girls are wearing knickerbockers 10 business and 1t is no uncommon sight 10 see them walking to and from their em- ployment totally unconscious or the radical change they have made Tn their garb. In Chicago, as an in- stance, the girl In knickers has long ceased to be the subject of comment and Is accepted as n phenomenon or the age like bobbed hair and short skirts, a manifestation of increasing mascuinity on the part or the ia'r sex, something to yawn about put not discuss.
 In former days, the question or morals always entered into style, but that was long time ago. Your giri of today is hardly more bashful than the boys of the family, and 1t IS not because she Is no less careful Of her reputation or because her morals are not so sound as were those of her aunts. The present situation Is sim ply step in the normal development of a movement which will free women from restraint to the same extent that men have been freed,
 Women's latest attempt to become a man may make possible many humorous mistakes if the custom or wearing em" becomes general. While on the way home some eve hing, we may approach young male thing" lounging on the curb to borrow q match only to find that the young male thing" is our sister And it is more than probable that she VIII produce the match and reply: sure, old man, let me have a rag, VIII you?" Again, fellows wife may wake him up about C.. M and say: "Alonzo, for heavens snke, get up There's a burglar in the house. Ana when you shuffle out into the kitchen with stutterng feet and say in a voice that is supposed to be bold put which slips up into falsetto: 'Who-o' who's there?" and the answer comes sweetly: Its me, Dearie, throw up your fiippers," say, are you really go ing to yell for the police or suggest that the burglar sit down while you make cup of tea?
 Can you imagine the troubles the constables are going to nave to oe termine whether those two people m that automobile parked down the l road are two business men eXchahg- l ing trade secrets out of nearing oi | Attorney General Daugherty, or a couple of spooners?
 Wow, what howl fathers going 10 make when he suddenly discovers inst before going out to the golf Inks that mother has borrowed his pants
 After all. the modern knicker claC lass is only the successor or the "Bloomer Girl" who used to dasi madly up and down the pouleVar' on the front seat of tandem. Woill anly sensibiities were outraged Whei she first made her appearance, pu the uproar soon subsided. 50 WI resentment against the knickers-ane a great many women do resent thel' ladvent-subside and we'll all go or living just as if nothing had happen ed.
 An ant came out of it's subterraneai home It stood a moment pesloe blade of grass which, to its llmite' field of observation, seemed to p'
 waving wildly in a gale. So the an hurried back into it's house ana Vei' excitedly informed the rest or ,h ants that the whole world was Tn th erin of terrific storm and was penn destroyed. The truth of the matte was that the blade of grass was De ing swayed by a gentle zephsr, .
 gentle in fact that 1t was hot ho'ioe by human beings.
 There is a connection between th story of the ant and the cohclusio''
 sometimes formed by men whose per snectiye is limited to short distances We are apt to reach a decision "it' ant knowing the complete tacts pe cause we are not tall enough men
 t.llv to he able to see what is tran sniring over the hills which hem
 our field of vision.
 As an example of this mlght
 cited the case of the bicycle lher is popular myth, in which mliilo'' share that the bicycle has cease to be used and that 1t IS no io'iee } manufacturel in commercial quan' 3 ties A great many of us have apah , doned this rubber shod steed anu we declare, with all the posltlVeheS
 in us that "nobody rides bicycles an
 more" This, of course IS liot -.
 truth because manufacturers ol 'io'
 cles are planning to produce anu oe one million machines during 1iie ou rcnt wear and it may be assumed tht thev do not propose to invest the fine efforts andk money merely l. ] tbo n,oasure of keeping their mlne
 occupied.
 . Irnti a few years ago, the blcyc e ,,s sufferinp from a severe declln 4 ,,ho, manufacturers of complete ma
 chimes and parts awoke to the ia o that their market was sllppihs a"' r from them and they became ailli'a., U, if for the purpose of promotlns u
 wider use of the bike It WI
 ,ointed out in advertisements to U
 nublic that the bicycle is inexpensiV
 nrovides health-building recreatio f takes the owner to any spot
 chooses to visit within reasonaple oi
 tance and is also valuable as ous
 ness vehicle, travelling swiftv q, r with little exertion on the part or u :, rider. Through this campaign VI education, manufacturers nave oe'
 ah,e to revive the industry whlch
 hecoming stronger with each year, . stead of dying out, as IL 'iliea'ei''