Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — NO BLOOMERS THERE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NO BLOOMERS THERE.

How the Toing Men of Birmingham Forestalled the Craze. The young men of Birmingham, Ala., took & very novel and effective means of discouraging bloomers. The South has not taken to bloomers to any great extent Indeed, bloomers are still something of a rarity, except in the very largest cities and even there they are having an up-hill fight as witness the Atlanta crusade. The Birmingham young men heard that some of the young Indies had determined to wear bloomers when wheeling. They did

not wait for the enemy to make the first onslaught. They hired the biggest, fattest, most ungainly negress they could find, wrestled with her for a week or more getting her able to sit upright on one of the young men’s bicycles, with some one to hold her on. Then they dressed her in a most grotesque bloomer cpstume, and started her through the streets of the town. She wore bright blue bloomers, trimmed ’with broad white braid, bright yellow stockings, and a red sweater. She was able after the first spin to go it alone, and every day for a week she trundled her hideousness through the principal streets of the city. The bloomer girls naturally did not dare show themselves in their new costumes while the negro bloomerite was abroad, and they didn’t wear them after the negress had retired from the ring. At last accounts the negro bloomerite was the only one of the class that had ventured abroad iu Birmingham.

THIS SHUT OUT THE BLOOMER CRAZE FROM BIRMINGHAM.