The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-09
The Unfortunate Affair of Mrs. Din
giles Hired Girl.

Full details of the unfortunate affair of
Mrs. Diugle's hired girl have not yet come
TO light, but enough is known TO warrant
the statement that Il more lamentablC &C
cident ha, rarely occurred in II. Louis.
Mrs. Dingle lives in a nice house on Ben
ton street, goes into nice society q good
deal and dresses well, and, as n matter of
course, the hired gill initiates her mistress
as far as possible IN the attention she pays
to personal adolnment. Mrs. Dingle APP
peared in a pull-back the other morning,
with a hustle, which attracted the hired
girls admiration, and az it WAS Thursday
and che wodld have the afternoon sll to
herself, she resolved to appear in a buste
vt all hazards.
She went al once 10 constructing the at
tachment to her dress, bat found great diff
ticulty in makiog the hustle in It's OUTLINES
follow the depression and cjnvOlu;ions Of
the one she was ImitCtipg, until the happy
thought occurred to her to utilize the
clothes-line in giving foim to the obstinate
protubeIance. She went out and took the
clothes-lhe down, and asCertsiued subse-
quently, by winding the coil OF rope up
loosely, that it made the perfection of stuff
f1ng for the bustl3-spfingy, undulating and
pllable. She used %slXiy-three feet and a
half of rope in all, and was perfectly sat
istied with her work. AT 3 O'Clock in the
afternoon she started out tor a promenade
and to keep an engagement with her young
man, q street-car driver, st present out Of
business. The hired girl didn't take a stree
car, but walked down town, feeling that
after taking so much pains she was too fire
Il figure of a woman not TO show herself.
She enjoyed the walk immensely until she
had nearly reached Franklin avenue, when
she felt a slight twitch in the rear. She
turned, but didn't notice anything. Around
the corner, though, she heard a boy call out
"sasinger5 :" and another one acr )ss the
street yelled ''snaiks :" She went on her
way with scorn, when she fell the twitch
again, and, looking around, this time she
saw something. She saw a small rope
reaching back around the corner, and from
the manner in which it moved she knew
that a boy must have hold of the other end
of it She knew that they hadn't got it all
yet, for she could feel it paying out like
hose from q reel. AT first che nearly faint
ed away, aud then started to run but then
1t was no use. The boys Played her as a
fisherman would a trout, ana showed a great
deal of science, keeping q mod
erately t~autline, but running along
near enough to the hired girl to
prevent too great a strain OF the tackle.
They would have landed her somewhere,
probably, but she had the presence of mind
10 snatch up a hay knife on exhibition in
front of a hardware store and cut the rope
with it. No o was she set free than
she darted for a street car and went home
again. She would not meet her young
mar with a fiat hustle, and the loss Of her
clothes line had left her absolutely without
any style whatever. When she got home
she had a high fever, and it was in her de-
lirium that she gave Mrs. DiDgle all the de-
tails of the distressing occurrence 50.
Louis Republican.