Show I 1 drums REFORM the national Nati ohai ohal dress reform association was heldak held heid at syracuse N Y june 20 which was presided over by dr mary E walker of oswego officers cers were chosen for the ensuing year sear ear the president being dr mary biary EA E Valker walker of oswego resolutions were adopted changing the me name of the organization to national dress reform and equal rights association urging the tho necessity ofa change of style in the dress of american women in the evening dr walker delivered an address lid iid dress which was as forcible and suggestive it it gave a minute account of her recent arrest in new york for wearing mens clothing 11 and her liar final vindication of the right to dress as she pleased her account of said arrest was interesting and in her remarks regarding the policeman iceman leeman and rol Eol policeman justice connected with her hen er arrest and trial she uttered some harp sharp things showing that she has iio no particular love for the manner in which justice is dispensed in the great metropolis she next nest discussed the elective franchise and predicted that in less than ten years the women ofA of america merlea would walk side by side with the men to the ballot box and deposit their ballot for their choice of officers and that many of the offices would at that time be filled ably and acceptably bythe by the women of our country she stated that in the south at the present woman was accorded more of her inalienable rights than at the north Nort hand and she further predicted that before one northern state gave to woman equal rights three or four of the southern states would have done the same thing she proposed to punish jeff davis by dressing him in the hoop boop and long style of dresses of the present day and require him to do the work of a forty story house and be made to go up and down stairs seven times a day which punishment she knew would exceed any other that could be devised she spoke strongly against the custom of wearing corsets and gan gave e good physical al reasons for their being discarded and closed her remarks by urging an I 1 immediate adoption of ofa a dress reform as is the only means of preserving the perpetuity of the american amerlean iv nationality tiona lity 2 Y 3 sw av I 1 |