St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-02

Six million bustles are manufactured
every year in the United States. Time
was when the hustle rose to gigantic
proportions. To one of this mammoth
kind Gen. Knickerbocker referred when
he inquired:
Which is the hustle
And which is the girl?
But there is no confusing the two
now, for the rise and fall of the hustle
has been very marked during the last
five years. Slowly and insidiously il
has decreased in magnitude, and at the
present day the appendage is not such a
very demonstrative affair after all.
Three millions are said to be fair es-
innate of the yearly number of hustle
wearers in this country, and of these
100000 at least 100000 change their
bustles every six months.
According to statistics, carefully re-
vised up to date, the various pieces OF
silver wire in all the bustles in the
United States, if joined together, would
reach from New York to st. Peters
burg.
Some girls make their own bustles.
Some make them of cloth padding, and
many of newspapers. The newspaper
hustle" is very common addition to
the skirts of stylish maidens in the
Fourth and Sixth wards.
The Journals reporter consulted a
specialist on bustles yesterday:
''Stand on the corner of Broadway
and Twenty-third street any fair after
noon," said the specialist, land review
the miles of feminine loneliness as they
pass. If you are competent judge of
the artistic you must admit that the
bustle-wearing girl OutstripS her nom
hustled sister in symmetry every time.
The moderate-SiZed hustle sets off a
dress to immense advantage. In addi-
ton to this, it relieves the hips of a
great weight. Therefore, it is thing
of health as we'll as of beauty"
''Is the hustle doomed to go?'
Il suppose it is. Like cloth, fashion
is a perishable thing. The crinoline
went. So did the Dolly Warden and
scores of other things which are now
looked upon as heathenish abomina-
tons. But the hustle will die hard"
Il believe good many New York
girls have followed Mrs. Cleveland's
example and shaken the hustle alto
gether?"
Eyes, good many have cast off their
buStles, but only to put on complicated
substitutes. for girls must have some
thing to improve the hanging OF their
SKIRTS"
Can you give me an idea of the sub
StituteS?"
well, the latest scheme is to sew
number of short stiff reeds into the
back of the skirt, so that they will stand
out at right angles to the body. But
you see the disadvantage. Every skirt
must have its reed instruments"
A number of the principal metrOpoli-
tan cloak factories were visited by the
manufacturers were making their fall
goods to be worn over hustle.
IF New York girls initiate Mrs.
Cleveland and taboo the hustle alto
gether, we shall be ruined," explained
a Walker street manufacturer. But l
don't think New York girls are so kit
tenish as all that. If they are, they'll
not get cloak to fit them, unless they
have it made to order, and their purses
will suffer very considerably thereby.
Mrs. Cleveland shook the hustle just at
a season. when cloaks for the fall were
being cut and made. Now, if the pres
ident's charming wife led the fashion
here as thoroughly as the Princess of
Wales does in England, all we cloak
manufacturers would vote the Republi-
can ticket next November"
Those who will hail the downfall of
the hustle with ecstatic hallelujahs and
hOsannas are the custom house inspect
resses and the small boys of this coun-
try. The first will be saved the almost
daily task of evolving contraband jew
elers' shops and cigar stores from little
why bonded warehouses, and the small
boy will have an embarrassment of
riches in the way of material for base
ball masks, campaign parade lanterns,
bird cages and rat traps.
A skillful statistician informed the
Journal yesterday that in the event of
the bustle's abolition there will be 100,-
600 square feet, or two and a half acres
more walking room on Fifth avenue of
fine Sunday afternoon.