St. Paul daily globe., 1889-07-28
The RuSSet Shoe Has Become
Popular in Minneap-
oils.
Many Wearing "The Yel-
low" Who Are Not
Dudes,
Although. to Avoid Being
Mistaken, Stick to Calf
skin.
Some Well-KnoWn People
Who Have Adopted the
Fad.

The hot and dead game young sport
and swell young man with a different
colored tennis sash for each day OF the
week no longer have monopoly on the
picturesque and seductive russell leather
shoe. 1t is considered quite the thing
for any one who is undergoing weeks
vacation to don the unblackened foot
wear, and if man has lawn in front
of his house, or is accustomed to walk
in the park, he may safely wear the red
ones on any warm day without fear OF
exciting unfavorable comment or arOus-
ing his creditors into pernicious activity.
RuSset shoes are becoming more popu-
lar every day. and some very modest
and retiring citizens have already made
their appearance in public with their
pedal eXtremitieS incaSed In 1.-THE very
latest.'
Ladies, too. are beginning to adopt
them also, and they really look very in
deed romantic hanging out of ham,
mock, with few inches of dainty stock
ing above them, or peeping from be-
meath tennis skirt as the fair wearer
trips across the court.
The "yaller" shoes have caught on in
Minneapolis, to the entire satisfaction
of the shoe dealers, and hundreds OF
pairs of them are being sold, many
going to the lakes.
Among those who have dared the dust
and mud of downtown streets, as we'll
as the jeers of a vulgar populace in
these aesthetic CATERS, might be men
toned the following Well-knOWn people:
Reuben II. K. Whitley, scoop editor
of the Tribune, and one of the main
guys of the Tally-Ho club, walks down
Nicollet attired in russet leather
shoes, a pair of decidedly visible check
pantaloOns. a Well-curled muStache, a
shirt of creamery white serge and a
serious look that, to stranger, would
seem to il cate deep thought, l.. Ber-
risfOrd Little. of the same sheet, has a
shirt exactly similar to Mr.. W'S. and
the two have taken to walking about
town together in order to refute the
generally accepted assertion that they
wear the same garment on alternate
days.
Eddie Willie Murphy smiles gently
and unostentatiOusly as he gently wipes
the dust off his red shoes with blue
silk handkerchief while waiting at the
stage entrance for the curtain to fall at
Harris. He used to be accompanied by
Col. W. II. Rogers. but a cold Bleth-
enian blast waited Willie from our
midst" and wrapping his .'yaller'
shoes in an evening rag he quietly de-
parted for the jOyfully wicked Chicago.
j. W. Lawrence often looms up at the
court house above a pair of russell
Yachting shoes with red rubber sOles
that give his gait sleuth-like air which
is hardly natural enough to be becom-
ing.
Maj. William R. Sill appeared as ad-
vertised at yesterday mornings ball
game attired in bland smile, a
cigarette, boisterous tennis sash, a
flannel cap and pair of delicately pat
termed russell shoes stitched with pale
blue silk and freshly polished till they.
shown like copper. law chappie." ."
said Willie, "me valet does thaWt.
Vaseline and piece of felt, We know"
People passing the Nicollet avenu e
entrance of the Pickwick club are apt
to see pair of adult russet leather shoes
obstructing the view from one of the
bow windows, and cane playing
lively tattoo between the toes thereof.
while the clear blue smoke OF good
cigar rises in mimic cloudlets above
the tips of or the shoes. A look behind
the scenes would give the pedestrian
view of the familiar and welcome face
of F. A. Cotharin, the secretary of the
the club. who is fond of watching the
paSSerS by from a safe retreat.