Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-09-04
The Newc., youny womar.

New York Evening World: An un.
usual edition of the new woman, or
the new man boarded a crowded
bridge car late one forenoon last
week. IL was young, it was pretty. 1t
was strangely feminine; il was
proudly masculine.
The ticket seller forgot to hand out
the two tickets for ) cents. because
he stopped To look at her--lins The
passengers forgot to climb the stairs
because they, too, stopped to look.
The guards forgot to close the gates
every one stopped. Every one looked.
IL was a respectful, quiet curiosity.
The respect may have been due TO
the youth and good looks of the
strangely dressed person, Oh it may
have been due to the modest, middle
aged woman who was her companion.
But-the people continued TO look till
the train reached the New York side.
Then they stood and looxed till the
couple had crossed City Hail park and
been swallowed up in the broadway
crowd.
She seemed not to notice the atten-
ton of the crowd, but quietly seated
the elderly woman-evidently her
mother-and then stood holding on to
the leather strap Ike any other young
man. She had q mans way of stand
ing, too-one foot out "A little and the
tip of her umbrella just hitting the
toe of her boot.
She was not more than 20 years old
and had the look Of "A college fellow.
She was pretty, oh, very pretty. Her
face was small featured and refined,
with q healthy, almost delicate, com
plexion. The face might have looked
too feminine but for the close cropped
hair, the mans white straw hat with
black band and the gold eye glasses
fastened to her IA by a cord. Her
head was beautifully rounded, and the
barber had trimmed the soft hair to
a perfect point in the back.
She wore the ordinary summer coat
Of the young mana dark cheyiot,
with unlined, straight back and it's in
Vulnerable pockets. Underneath the
loose coat was the customary arrange
ment of colored negligee shirt, with
! its high white collar and white linen
cuffs. The ncgligee was belted with
a strong masculine leather belt. She
carried her watch in "a pocket of the
negligee, the chain being fastened in
IA gentlemanly way to her leather belt.
Then came the only feminine part of
her attire the short strong skirt,
bound with a plain heavy braid.
But, again, her boots. These were
plainly masculine. They were large
broad toed, thick souled and had hea-
w lacings. \ small well-woru book
peeped out of one of the side pockets
of her coat. The book i'm its cover re-
sembled "A students volume.
If one noticed the careless S~clf-reli-
ant manner, the well shingled hair and
standing collar; glanced at the coat;
the hat and boots-at the attitude he
knew this person must have been an
interesting young man. Blu the hand
that grasped the leather strap was very
small, white, and the wrist was round
and feminine; hen there was the
skirt-so one knew her to be n lovely
young woman in spite of her clothes.
The ear stopped. The young woman
gravely took the arm of the elderly
one and tride to reduce her masculine
strides To the feminine steps. The
mother scarcely lifted her eyes. and
when her masculine daughter occa-
%sionally addressed her she only muir
mered "A low, quiet answer. Once she
was heard to say as they STROBE along:
But they are watching you So"
She wasn't proud of her daughter
or of her son.