The San Francisco call., 1898-03-20
HER THIRTY YEARS
 EXPERIENCE M TROUSERS
D.. Mary Walker Tells of Some of fife Amusing Adventures
 Sic Has Had.

or him. and. would you believe It, nt; has sent fer me to see Mime. Wu, anu I have paid her a protesslohai NtSi.. How was she dressed? Well, that IS the funniest part of it. She had Droao- cloth pants and a tunlc. 0ne
 dressed just about as l am. .Io,,o
 .I have been taken for Cathoilc nriest q good many times" said pr. Mary. More than once people nave sworn to me that I was Father 90 anu So. and they wouldn't listen to oeniai; Once at the White House a man halleu me as Brother Brown Of ms chuIcli Iu Atlanta. and when I told him ne was mistaken I couldn't get hlm 10 pe.IeNC me Sometimes the mistakes nave been very funny. Young glIis has9 tried to fiirt with me and nave peeh simply shocked by the brazen enront- cry of some women whom 1 nave met while travelling. One of them actuaiiy asked me how often I shaved. one thought I was boy and wouldn't tahe my word to the contrary.
 '.Some women delight in asking ma why I don't dress like them. l al- ways tell them I buy my own clothes and I really don't see why l cant have them cut as I like without having peo- ple asking me questions about them l tell such women that if they will send me their gowns l will wear them 1 take very good care not to say how l will wear them, and as they never send me any I am saved the trouble of ex- plaining. One lady promised to send me a skirt and asked me if l would wear it as she wore hers. 1 told her would put it on over my trousers ana then hold it up as she did so as not to interfere with my walking. She was angry and left me. l suppose she gave me up as a hopeless case.
 %ofIn bends. I don't patronize anybody Tn particular, and I suppose l am hke most other people,
 "So I don't see why they should be called mems clothes when they answer inst as we'll for women. And that re- minds me. Why should young fellows who have been born since l grew 10 womanhood &alk about my copying af- ter them. It strikes me that they are the ones who are copying after me.
 "I don't pretend to be dude, ana don't care very much about following the latest styles. I don't care whether my trousers are cut on the American or the Persian or the Russian pattern. All I ask is that they look well ana nt comfortably. {. answer to a question, now many pairs of pantaIoons wear out in the course of a year. Not a great many, though It depends on the quality Of the goods. and that depends, in turn, on tne pocketbook, so. you see, it is a varia ole quantity. In the practice or medl- cine. of course, one doesn't have to wear out ones clothes very rapidly: and, besides, I think I am careful or my clothing. Somebody asked me once whether I made my own clothes UT course I don't. l have too many other things to do."
 For foot gear the doctor wears pair of little old-fashioned caltskin boots. and they are very neatly In eVl- dence as she crosses her legs while talking. Her shirt bosom and high standing collar are immaculately white. and in her black satin tie are SIX gold- headed pins-the only consplcuously feminine feature of her dress.
 If she were a man she would DC called 50 years of age. But, being q woman. nobody would ever be so un- gallant as to guess.-Copyrighted, 1898, by s. $. Mcclure.