ABSTRACT
A story worthy of being added to Sartor Resartus was told at Kingston yesterday to Mr.George Cave. Q. C. chairman of the Surrey Quarter Sessions, a strong master of other men’s fates, twelve good men and true sworn on the jury, and a courtful of deeply-interested [illeg.]. 2 It involved the question whether a lady should go cycling in the graceful, inconvenient, even perilous skirt, or in masculine, but safe knickerbockers. Viscountess Harberton, whose eminence in the rational dress [illeg.] no one will deny, prefers the latter costume. Mrs. Martha Jane Sprague, tenant of the Hautboy Hotel, Ockham, is in favour of the skirt, and when the Viscountess in her bloomers appeared, on the 27th October, before the shocked landlady and demanded lunch, she was told that she could not have it in the coffee room ‘in those clothes,’ but must take it in the bar parlour.
