The Cheyenne Daily Leader

The Abolition of Petticoats.

It would appear that the doctrines of woman's emancipation from the trammels of feminine dress, promulgated with considerable vigor by strong-minded ladies in the United States, have recently been enthusiastically adopted by an association of German women of the Brunnestrasse, Berlin. A chairwoman having been duly elected, the proceedings were opened by an eloquent speech setting forth the inconveniences and disadvantages, from a sanitary point of view, of the flowing garments hitherto deemed appropriate wear of civilized females. This discourse pronounced it to be a sacred duty of every member of the association to discard with the utmost promptitude such objectionable raiment, typical of all the disabilities wrongfully ascribed to woman by her oppressor--man--and to assume in its stead "a dualistic covering for the legs, as well as for the arms." This daring programme of action was hailed with acclamations of approval by all save one, a Frau Peters, who courageously stood up for the denounced petticoat, upon the ground that it was far more becoming than trousers to members of the female sex. Her protesting voice, however, was drowned in a storm of indignant clamor, and a resolution embodying the sentiments previously enunciated by an overwhelming majority of the fair leaguers.