Show WOMANS WORLD IN paragraphs coliton hidirs I 1 idla elio lieve jut ju t struck a inow how for the women of boston have just struck a large 0 significant blow for enco at least a dozen of then them have appeared on the B streets in trousers brousel s some cull them divided skirts others bloomers and others syrian trousers lint but they dinean all the same thing thin sirs mrs 13 0 flower difo of the editor of of the arena is among the prominent T women omen who have adopted tho the costume an and d the other day when she went into a millinery store etore on washington street for the innocent and praise praiseworthy worthy purpose of buying a new bonnet bonlick sho she came cama near causing it 11 blockade around the premises so great was the curious crowd arid and now the latest Is that mrs may wright sewall and mrs rachel foster iriva hive appeared at tho the worlds fair iu in the samo same full syrian trousers and short skirts just the other day in a new jersey village ft a woman was turned out of church simply because she wore these garments think of the courage e it takes to defy dame Fashio nl these bomm stend stand for a principle eswell as trousers success to chuml why should a woman bo be compelled to drag around the burden of yard yarda i of dry goods if sho she domit want to if anything will drive a woman to bloomers it is tile present idiotic skirts with their pounds of hair cloth linin lining and useless wi widths its of goods and trimmings A woman applied for a divorce the other day on the ground that her husband had bad not allowed her a new bonnet in 17 years picture tho the arid waste of a womans comans life unblessed by bya a now new bonnet they also servo who only stand and 1 11 ll 11 wait but think of waiting war ting for 17 years think of the phenomenal patience and forbearance of that woman when she saw her husband bring home bi am new beavers and der derbies biest she ought to have a monument if any woman e ever ver did dotter better late than never but if your case hall had been mine that little legal document would have gone in at the eni end of the first year for mind you yen it was not entirely the question of a bonnet but it is plain that woman never biad one cent she could call her own etwas it was a clear case of freeze out on the domestic purse strings her husband treated her worse than the state does docs its criminals serving out sentences in the peni aries for they are allowed to earn a little money by working extra hours Elin elizabeth beth cady stanton says if you want to keep young get an idea it is a significant 0 fact that the women who t take ake the liveliest interest in the worlds work have always younger faces than those who live in narrow ruts the first thing susan D anthony did after being appointed by governor r lower flower one of the managers of the new york state industrial school was to discover that 17 girls stood over tho the washtubs wash tubs and ironing tables six of the week doing things in tho the good old fashioned ways of our grandmothers when they could just as well take tho the clothes over to tho the boys laundry which was fitted up with all the T d IUD mes wes M mai nar mat at u 0 ni e nir r proper but they unify finally cousen consented ted and now a less number of girls do the work in two days and have leisure for other and plea pleasant pleasanter santer cr occupations the keen eyes and deer clear brains of a few more women of tho the anthony stamp might worl work wonders in certain other state institutions which could bo be mentioned miss frances E willard was refused as a delegate to tho the general conference of the I 1 methodist church simply because she eho is a woman will some small girl who knows lier her arithmetic take her slate and reckon up just how many hundred undred li years those methodist dignitaries are behind h nd the present age put cot I 1 miss willard had ad her retort courteous ready she said if f lature future conferences did not reverse that decision it would bo be well for methodist women to found a church union to bring about a recognition of women and nien men as occupying an equal plane piano in ia the household I of god ibis is a hint winch the next general conference would do well not to ignore after allowing women to pay oil off tile the church debts avith fairs and festivals lead the prayer meetings teach leach in the sunday schools anti and sing in the choirs they might naturally expect that the exercise of so much liberty would embolden them to ask for more it if anywhere under tho the sun eun there is a spot whore where men anti and women ought to meet on an equal footing it is the christian church ALICE E IVES |