Show FEMINISTS PAY HONOR TO BLOOMER DESIGNER SENECA FALLs FALLS N N. Y May 28 lr The V-The The memory of a Seneca t Falls Palls housewife was was- recalled throughout hout America today today and and the bloomers she advocated back in irl 1851 J This week feminists observe L r ithe anniversary of or the birth r of Amelia Bloomer who started the bloomer fad and was vas one of at the na nations nation's s 's leadin leading champions o or of women's rights i She was wae born at Homer N. N Y May tay 27 1818 and became a pio plo fleer Deer reformer in the feminist I l II movement soon son after she married a young journalist and came to live in this village e First presenting her views in her husbands husband's newspaper she gained national recognition after the first women's rights convention conven tion lion was held here through her publication of The Lily In 1851 when The Lily was six ix years old Mrs Bloomer published pub her sensational editorial urging adoption In America of the styled Oriental costume that was given her name I |