St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-30
RAINY DAY POINTS.
Examples of Dragging Skirts and
Some Sensible Talk.

Examples of Dragging Skirts and
Some Sensible Talk.
Two gentlemen going up town on
Grand avenue car last evening got off at
the same corner at which handsomely
dressed young lady alighted, and walk
ing towards their home on Portland
avenue, discovered the fair charmer
stridlng briskly along on the other side
of the street. At the first crossing
reached the lady crossed over, and nee
eSsarly met the men almost face to
face. She had been holding her dress
out of the mud, but rather higher than
seemed absolutely necessary, aud the
gentlemen had exchanged. smiles and
significant chances. but when she DELHI
erately crossed the street, and with
coy glance that said very plainly, You
see it is necessary for me to hold my
skirts up. and rather troublesome in
this wind, but anyhow l can display a
very pretty aukle," it was not surpris-
ing that the more observing of the two
should remark, "Why, the little mink is
just holding her skirts out of the mud to
show off her pretty ankle"
Now, if questioned, few girls might
be found who could give DO better rea-
son for the amount of care that they be-
stow on their skirts on rainy day than
the above, but still there is an absolute
necessity for some skirts to be cared for,
because their WearerS will not have
them cut off at their proper length. The
''bell" skirt with its dip is now thing
OF the past, but although aimore sensible,
not to say more clearly, style is in
vogue, many women still wear skirts
that do great deal of the Scavenger
work, which, let us hope, our city is not
yet too hard up or too far behind with
its accounts to have done for us. Z
When l saw woman yesterday with
handsome navy blue serge gown,
which, although made with the pretty
round skirt. swept the puddles as she
hurried along-tlIat is, the part of it
that she supposed was completely COW
cred by her mackintoSh-I !elt truly
sorry for her ignorance of the common
laws of cleanliness, which some people
say comes next to gOdllneSS.
Speaking of skirts in tue plural. re-
minds me of the worst spectacle of
carelessness that beheld while | was
out in yesterdays dOwnpour. A we'll
dressed woman, who had a sufficient
amount of good sense and thought for
her health to be wearing rub
berS and a macintosh, stepped
off the Selby avenue cable. The
wind was blowing pretty hard while it
! rained, and any woman had enough to
do to manage her umbrella, but to see
this woman trying to manipulate not
only that umbrella, but also to hold her
skirts-One of which was a beautifully
embroidered muslin under garment
uD out OF the mud was a pitiful sight.
If women will wear barbarouS petit
Goats, why will they not have neat-col-
ored or black ones, at least for rainy
days? But in this enlightened and pro-
gressive age everybody cannot agree
that there is necessity for wearing
anything that will impede progress
or make walking less graceful.
Pantella hose, to take the place
of the old cumbersome skirt containing
perhaps five widths of goods can be
had, or in winter, when extra warmth
is needed, equeStrienne tights, in which
girls can walk freely and not 90 mine
ing along, with all the members OF the
opposite sex remarking on what they,
dear fellows, suppose is the tightnesS of
the shoes. Let the petticoat keep
It's place, which it certainly has, but
which is not under these nice crinOline-
| lined shirts that are in vogue nowadays,
but rather only necessary under sum-
mer fabrics, which are light and thin
| and must be "held out"
Then the women who must 60 out
in all weathers, and they are legion
| business women, L mean-can go Sc
renelv along, rain or shine, without
| having to give thought to botherSome
| pettlcoatS or skirts long behind.