The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-26
HOW THE MAIDEN SLID.
sample of the Experiences MANY
Had Yesterday,

Had Yesterday.
1t was a lovely day-nit Rut sba
was as sweet a thing as the rain had
d chance TO fall on and she seemed tn
ENJOY the weather. She appeared IN
appreciate the contrast between her
own charming self and the beastIv
conditions over head and under foot
She crossed Fifth street on Wabasha.
ana as she came abreast of the en-
trance to the city hall a couple OF
rheumatic old fellows standing within
Ihe sneiter or the portico braced them
serves ana quit swearing to have a
lcok at her. She wore a cIose-fittine
| ilgh macintosh coat, a broad, low felt
| nat and, as she daintily picked he4.
| way along, one could not helm hIt
notice that she wore comfortable ruh-
per poots with metal heels. The wind
had blown the loose tendriIs of hair
ABOUT her face and forehead back and
her eyelaShes had caught a few dror>s
OF the rain; they made her ewes appear
10 sparkle the more and If she closed
ner ups now and then as she felt the
insecurity OF her footing, why that but
addeQ TO the beauty Of her rosebud
mouth and made it the more adorable.
she was quite fmpervious to the rain
ana, perhaps, because so few other
women had the temerity to brave the
weather and venture outdoors, every
man that saw her looked at her with
sunshine of her presence amidst the
1nclemency of the elements And so
sne tr1pped along in front Of the civ
hall.
Mayor Doran's hired man had not
heard the remarks Of his honor
and his honor's chief of police about
cleaning off the walks and if that
order went" the policeman on the CITY
nail beat was derelict in his duty for
not going in and ''pinching'' the mayor
LII was worth a mans life to attempt to
make his way over the curved walk in
front of and along the Fourth street
side Of the city hall Beginning lust
at the point where the decorative gar
dener raised a grave-like mound in
honor of the G. A. r. last summer, and
running away around to the corner Of
Fourth and Cedar streets, there was a
sheet Of ice that would be worth ST., 900
TO a man who wanted to start an ice
rink. The ice covered gentle incline
and extended along the curves of the
walk without a break-except here and
there in spots where some. careless,
bony person had sat down and married
its smooth surface. 1t was a fearsome
thing and the man who was responsible
for its being that way could not recover
justice through the enforcement of any
ordinance. He ought to have been
hung or boiled in oil or put out of the
way in some other smooth fashion.
t..
do anything to her! She began to feel
that perhaps life was not all prunes
and mixed ale when she got to the top
Of the gentle declivity at the corner.
The debonair look disappeared from
her laughing face as she stood on the
summit Of the glacier; perhaps she
thought that she ought to try back for
safety. And she proved that the
woman who hesftates is lost, for pres
ently she began to futter. then recOv-
cred herself, then saw that she must
inevitably make a mess of it if she
struggled and she settled down with q
queer little squ-u-sh. A touchdown for
the glacier. Jim Nugent came out
from the shelter of the doorway and
laughed. The beast! She got up and
made another start Ten steps farther
on. she saved herself by sliding down
to the guard-rail BY this time she
had an audience She fell twice in
front Of the windows Of DR.. RothrOck's
bug factory and the doctor deserted
nice little mess of ammicococci phag-
ocyticuSSes, that he was stewing, to
have look. She fell once more before
she reached the walk where she could
get a run for her money on a broad
stretch of ice that extended down the
Fourth street hill for twenty yards.
BY this time her hat was most de-
cidedly not ON straight, the lovely
macintosh was a wreck and the
charming face had given way to some
such front as a man assumes when
he is about to let loose his soul in
GUESSING. She knew people were watch
ing her and her teeth were hard to
set She made a wild dash down the
walk and began to slide She lost
control of herself and turned around
as she slid along. She was sliding
backwards when she reached the edge
Of the walk where she tripped and fell
backwards into the sea Of slush in the
gutter. Then she gave up and burst
into tears as an idiot of newsboy
hewIed Hi dere; yer dropped sump'n!"