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Show ELEVATION BY TROUSERS. Wouiau U llouod How and Bardeu.d With Hk.rls. 1 New York Tribune. I j Woman is, ufiernll, human very hu-I hu-I num. It i- sad and almost discouraging to I see that alter thousands of yeart of as.-so- ciiition wiili the noble creature, man, woman ."till ret tins her petty jealousies and her little revenges. These gloomy r di ctions uro prompted by tho report from England concerning the fund Malted by the priiicr.-ii of Wales for j Mii. (irinin oud, Uiu heroine of Mari-pur. Mari-pur. The subscriptions arc coming in very slowly, and i is freely alii ge.d t Ii fit tlii.s is because M:. (irimwood u young and pretty and bids lair I" eclipse the other women when i-ho has hung her niouniiii;.; away iu hor dai kn.it closet and cornea nut into society. Alasl that woman ir.m not mora benefited by her constant association with man! Kwt is thi ii! no excuse, or partial excuse, ex-cuse, for woman? We think that there is. Mini that it is expressed iu one word sl.irts. Woman in simply bound down by skirts she eunnot arise abovo them. Skirls arc unhygienic and iificomforta-bio iificomforta-bio no nil tilvss reformers Say, and, as thoy are always women, they ought to know. Skirts ruin a woman's health and in, ike her peevish and irritable. Thoy cloud her mind and make it iui-p'iihe, iui-p'iihe, for her to see tho noble aiyl unselfish un-selfish example which man is constantly exhibiting toiler. So, when it w iiro- poned to raise a fund for a young ami pretty woman her fiisters, hemmed in anil made narrow by tho deadly nkirt, refuse to subscribe, or to let thVir husbands hus-bands subscribe, lint there is the dav. n of better things in sight. When, in less than eleven ninnt lis from How, woman puts oil' skirts and puts on trousers wn may look for her to rise to the, high piano go long occupied by man in lonesome lone-some grandeur. True, vve may be disappointed dis-appointed if we, look for any marked improveiiK nt in her for tho flrnt few months. The very novelty will tend to distract her mind' for stunts little time. She will not be able to realize at lirsl that trousers do not need the constant attention of a skirt. For weeks it will be interesting to watch her try to hold them up when going down stalls or across a muddy street. It will be a common thing for a woman, when i!io Ntarta to pay for anything iu a store and find. s that she has not got her pocket-book pocket-book in her hand, to set up the cry that she has been rolibed. but polic'eMilijcers will soon learn to advise tier to look in her trousers pocket for it, wherein most crimes it will be found. 'Tho work of dressing after tho advent of trousers will m,Im for some weeks be. both tiresome tire-some and vexatious; it will take timo and experience for women to learn that trousers cannot be either put on or taken 11 IT over the head. '1 rouscrx, as we intimated, in-timated, will at first be art enslaving to woman as skirts, but not for long; in he spacu of six months' time, if we rightly estimate her ability, tlie will have mastered them as thoroughly as Ins man, and will then march onward side by side w it li him iu all intellectual and phvsii-al improvement urn! advaiu e-meiit e-meiit of the race. One word more and we are done if the clergy will allow us the use of liie phrase for this occasion. Many newspapers, news-papers, otherwise able and carefully edited, 'ire asking when the new patterns pat-terns in woman's trousers are going to appear. We known that the intelligent readers of the Tribune do not need to be t"ld that there will bo 110 patterns. When a ma:- .1 tits a pair of UMtisci.s, does be go a- v a ti-wpJeTjjit-tern. full of lii" . liMes lind tftoS w'ls notches? No; be goes to his tailor and leaves bis measure or pershaps he pvieH to a ready-made clothier .tul ! ti- s a pair from a lot cast in a eoii uinii mould. So it. will be with women, though we fancy (hat the dealers in read.v-made femiinine trousers will not do a larjfe business woman, with her lino lesilietic scire, will in nearly every case demand her trousers made to order. |