The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-29
THE SUSPENSE WAS MISSING.
What Happened to a Girl Who Went Out
in BIOomers.


What Happened to Girl Who Went Out
in BIOomers.
At Tower Grove park there was big
crowd, and one section of it witnessed
an incident which may lead to the
abandonment of bloomer habit by
one young woman; or it may lead
merely to her acquiring more accur-
ate knowledge of the eccentricities of
the costume once believ we'd to be fash
Toned for the exclusive use, comfort
and protection of the male of the hu-
man species. This young woman and
another young woman equally pleasing
to the eye, equally expert in the man
agement of the wheel, sped swiftly
along the smooth roads and byways Of
Tower Grove park. They were hand
some pair, and attracted the attention
OF most people whom they passed.
After awhile they begun to attract
more attention; at least one of them
did. The ditfusive glance of the man
who was looking casually at every
thing at once gave place to concen-
trated gaze at one object; the woman
blushed and looken angry, and men
blushed and looked twice; small boys
didn't blush and did giggle, and the
young woman from Olive street was
the cause of it all. Finally mounted
policeman's eagle eye fell on her He
put spurs to his horse and after not
chase of two hundred yards overlook
the girls.
Excuse me, miss" said he, but
there is something wrong with your
clothes"
The other young woman glanced at
her companion and nearly fell off her
wheel. "Oh Lordr she gurgled, they
are coming down."
At this the Olive street young wom-
an stopped her wheel and dismounted.
1t wasn't wise thing to do, perhaps,
but probably it helped her to arrive
at speedier realization of her COM
panion's remark than would have re-
suited from mental process, for be it
known that when the upper section of
a pair of boomers is sundered from
its moorings the fact is more apparent
to the wearer when she is standing
than when she is sitting. When the
girl stood up what had been an incon-
siderable, though noticeable hiatus in
the continuity of her apparel became
something worse.
The police man blushed until his he'll
met smoked, the other girl scurried
about like a hen whose offspring is in
danger, and the wicked men gathered
around and looked. The girl in trou BILE
appeared to be the coolest person in the
crow d of two hundred people. With a
left jerk or two and a wriggle and a
twist she restored the garm ent to its
former position, and stood holding il
with one hand while she beckoned
to the officer with the other. He ap-
preached, and she asked him for some
thing.
I'm sorry, miss, but l haven't got
it," said the policeman.
At this juncture a young man with
tow linen suit and negligee shirt,
who had manifested deep interest in
the entire proceeding, slipped hand
under each side OF his vest, and after
fun bling nervously for a moment
shifted them to the rear and clawed
wildly at his spinal column. Almost
a smile of great benev-
olence lighted up his face, and draw
ing from beneath the tail of his coat a
pair of silk embroidered suspenders>
he rendered them to the young wom-
an, saying: Here, take mine; l really
don't need 'em."
1t was well meant, but the crowd
the policeman fingered his
baton and scowled, and the girl looked
scornfully right through the young
man, and then beckoned to an elderly
gentleman and asked him to lend her
a pin. He did it, and in a few mo-
ments the young woman from Olive
street and her fair companion were
going away from the park at a gait
that would have put Dute Cabanne on
mis- metal to equaL-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.