Show THE BLOOMER The bloomer bicycle costume must go Not that there is any particular objection ob-jection to the bloomer per se as to the uses to which it is being put Those ladies who first startled the community by appearing on their I wheels in the costume meant well enough do doubt But now they find themselves in the same predicament that confronted the women in El Paso Texas who sought to introduce the divided skirt Respectable modest women were slow to take hold but not so the other classrepresentatives of the shady side of life They saw in it a golden opportunity for an advertisement advertise-ment and in the language of the day I worked it for all it was worth The result was an ordinance passed by the I city council forbidding any woman to j appear on the streets either walking or riding in such a costume I When the telegraph brought the news I of municipal action as to divided skirts we wondered why such a fit of prudery I had seized folks down in Texas But 1 when the reason for the ordinance appeared j ap-peared the matter was placed in a I different light We were inclined to the I opinion too that if the women of Ell Paso were like the rest of their sex I the more they were forbidden to divide their skirts the greater would be the division But even fashion will not stand against the perverted use to which the split skirt has been put iff Texas It really begins to look as though some similar action were necessary here The bloomer introduced by ladies of good reputation as a convenient con-venient bicycle costume has been taken hold of by the women of the town ana is being used as an attraction and allurement al-lurement in their shameful business It is no uncommon sight now to see half a dozen frail females astride theit wheels in bloomer costume of the most I abbreviated variety coasting along the public streets and making a display of limbs that should call for police interference in-terference The outdoors use of the bloomer may have to be prohibited altogether If this cannot be done let it be understood under-stood that its use has been given over to that class of females whose names figure in the police court record and we think the ladies of this city will soon see the necessity of substituting some other costume when they wish to indulge in the invigorating exercise of the wheel |