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It was that of a matron, slim but shapely as an Ionic column. Her face was Grecian, with Corinthian temples; Hellenic eyes that looked from jutting eyebrows, like dormer-windows in an Attic forehead, completed her perfect Athenian outline. She wore a black frock-coat tightly buttoned over her bloomer trousers, and a standing collar. "Your Lordship is struck by that face," said a social parasite.
I had one pet window plant of my own, a red rosebush, almost a perpetual bloomer, that I kept beside me at my work for years. I parted with it only when I went away to the West, and then with regret, for it had been to me like a human little friend. But the wild flowers had my heart.
An unknown man might have sat on that same dry-goods box and hung on the same nail till he was black in the face without causing remarks, but with the Duchess of Bloomer it was different, oh, so different! As a result of the Bosworth victory, Henry Tudor obtained the use of the throne from 1485 to 1509.
Amelia Bloomer, to hear again Wm. Lloyd Garrison and George Thompson, the distinguished Abolitionist from England, who had stirred her nature to its depths. Here was fulfilled her long-cherished desire of seeing Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Their meeting is best described in that lady's own words: "Walking home with the speakers, who were my guests, we met Mrs.
Freddie groped for her meaning. "Do you mean you've made a bloomer of some kind?" "I pulled the worst kind of bone. I stopped on in London when the rest of the company went back home, and now I've got to stick." "Rush of jolly old professional engagement, what?" Nelly laughed bitterly. "You're a bad guesser. No, they haven't started to fight over me yet. I'm at liberty, as they say in the Era."
Both women, however, felt it their duty to bear this cross to free women from the bondage of cumbersome clothing, hoping always that the bloomer, because of its utility, would win converts and finally become the fashion. Susan admired their courage, but still could not be persuaded to put on the bloomer. Fired with their zeal, she began planning what she herself might do to rouse women.
You're always tellin' me about how 'Zacheus he, climbed up a tree Now if your name had to rhyme 'twould have to be er er well, nothing'," triumphantly; "'cause nothin' COULD rhyme with Zacheus." Mr. Bloomer, solemn as ever, shook his head. "Yes, it could," he declared. "What's the name of that plant Lulie's got in the settin' room window over home? The one with the prickers on it.
There was much fun and enthusiasm, when the assumed Hogan would be asked to gain through Cooney, or Bloomer would make a run, and the make-believe Foster Rockwell would urge the pseudo Yale team on to victory. John DeWitt had more than one encounter that afternoon with Captain Rafferty of Yale.
At the same time, the master does not cry 'haro' on the 'bloomer. It is admirably suited, he maintains, to the average Frenchwoman, who is more inclined to a reasonable plumpness than her English sister. 'The skirt to England, says he, 'the bloomer to France. The whole question is one of physique and latitude.
Primmie, however, had more to say. "Why, Zach Bloomer," she declared, "you know that wan't only part of what you and me was sayin'. That wan't what I wanted to ask Mr. Bangs. YOU said if 'twas money matters or business Miss Martha went to see Cap'n Jeth about you cal'lated the cap'n would be cruisin' up to Boston to see a medium pretty soon." "The old man's Speritu'list," exclaimed Zach.
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