St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-03
A MUDDY DAY.
Rubbsr Boots Answer TwO-fOld
PurnOse for the Fair SEX

Rubbsr Boots Answer TwO-fO1d
Purpose for the Fair Sex.
ooh, those horrid men. they're just on
every corner!-and look at that mud;
my, do sigh for dress REFORM
This was the audible wall of Flour
City damsel as she daintily gathered her
skirts about her and waded into the
mud on the NicOllet avenue crossing at
Washington avenue, and it is probably
the inward thoughts of every lady,
especially young ladies, who has been
on the street during the days when the
sun has been shining so brightly, liQui-
flying the ice and snow.
"By the time the dress reform is well
enough established for you and I to
adopt it we will be so old that those
awful creatures won't look at us, and SO
it won't do us any good" answered her
companion; and then they went picking
their way up Nicollet, and the reporter
caught no more of their talk, but it is
evident that they were still discussing
the question that always bOtherS the
skirt-wearing sex when the mud comes.
'It's cold day when you get ahead
of some of the women; just look a.
there" The clothes and general make
up of the speaker bespoke genuine
sport. "Those girls have got the start
on the crowd hangin' round here. Just
look at those rubber boots. Gosh! see
'em wade through the mud, will you?
and raise their skirts just as high as
they please
Sure enough. there were two pretty
girls in boots marching across the street
with a delightful abandonment, and
there were number of men who were
noticing it. There were loafers sta
toned on the corner, men of business
taking sidelong glances as they passed,
a college student or two lingering along
slowly through the mud, that bright
afternoon when SO many young ladies
were abroad, and glance around
showed parson-like, black-robed gen.
tleman standing in doorway not far
off. and these constituted the ''horrid
men" the young lady had referred. to.
Lots of them are men who would be
outraged if any one mentioned that they
would go to the COmique on the sly, and
some of them would blush to think
of attending the Crystal Slipper" even.
A little change in mother earth does
make a wonderful change in some of
her children, especially 1.-The girls"
There is the old lady who, with stoutly
shOd feet. wadeS through the mud with
the Indifference of street urchin,
either to the eyes cast on her or the
element she tramples under foot: yet
in dry weather she would feel scandal
lied if a frolicksome breeze raised her
skirts above her shoe tops, with only
her pug near. Then there is the i'm
maculate dude who will roll I'D his
trousers equally with his country
cousin. who, when mother earth is firm,
would deem it the rankest absurdity.
The young ladies wouldn't dream of
Boots nor the girls of dress reform
when it was dry. 1t takes all kinds of
weather to give variety to life.
A touching scene was that of a school
girl, sweet sixteen, at a guess, who
drew her dainty foot from her rubber,
and then realizing the calamity about to
befall her, with presence of mind of
woman, hoped to the further shore
and stood gazing wistfully back on her
pedal protector, as she stood there on
one foot till gallant rescued it,. If
earth might speak, when she was dry,
of her experience in wetter days, she
would tell many story of interest.