to breakfast. Nor are the trousers
subsequently removed while the ladies are about the house,
unless some conservative caller is announced, when a stylish
tea-gown can be jumped into in a second, and the lady is in
faultless female costume.

That women should be handicapped in their locomotion in
their own homes is simply a relic of oriental slavery and
prudery, and the revolt against it is sensible and
wholesome. That they have come to stay is evident, while
improved costumes for shop girls, and other women engaged in
business every day in the year, are certain to follow in the
order of progress.--_Boston Globe._

It might be well also for the council to recommend the
formation of societies in each community where social or
society gatherings of those interested might be held at
stated intervals, at which all members would appear in
dresses made with special regard to health, comfort, and
beauty, and in which all garments would conform to the
general ideal recommended by the council.

[6] As the paper is being set up my attention has been attracted
to a remarkably sensible signed editorial in the Boston
_Sunday Globe_, of July 26, by the brilliant writer and
sensible thinker, Adelaide A. Claftin, from which I extract
the following:

Bishop Coxe's fulmination against the riding of bicycles by
women has attracted considerable attention, but to the
student of social movements it is not strange that Bishop
Coxe should object. The real oddity is that scarcely anybody
else, apparently, has objected.

That young girls from the best families should within a
short time have betaken themselves to whirling through the
public thoroughfares, like so many boys, is certainly a new
departure from all old fashioned canons of feminine decorum,
at least as startling as many that have brought down all
sorts of thunderbolts from pulpit and press. Had it been a
prerequisite that an amendment to the United States
Constitution, or even a statute of a State Legislature
should be obtained, the girls would doubtless have had to
wait many a weary year.

It is