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plexion, the Colorado girl is not in it. The
eastern tenderfoot is puzzled by the glaring
poppy hue that tlnts the face Of the Denver
damsel, but little experience suffices to
show it is caused not by the paint pot as at
first surmised, but is the ruddy glow due to
the bracing breeze OF our soft Italian atmos-
phere. The truth is ugly to confess, but,
like the immortal George, cannot tell a
lie, the Colorado girl is anything but beauti-
full. She may be chic and charming, wise
and witty, nice and natty, pert and pretty,
but-for the sake of my souls salvation, |
Can say no more. Every woman coming
here goes through the same experience. She
scans with painful anxiety the deepening
tint that crawls oyer cheek and brow; she
vainly endeavors to check the process with
artificial helps and finally ends in abandon
ing both white wash and mirror, and meckly
resigning herself to the red.rock hue of her
Colorado environment
TIC this beauty lack, perhaps, is partly due
the Denver woman's penchant for clubs and
politics, conscious she can never subdue the
masculine heart through the power of beauty
and that she must depend for admiration
wholly upon her brains she goes on multi
plying clubs and mixing politics in way
Mat is bewildering and exasperating to the
average man.
If it cannot be said the Denver girl is q
Juno, neither can the Denver man be likcncd
unto Apollo. Perhaps to secret conscious
ness of this fact is owing, in large measure
his loyalty to his sister, for the Colorado poet
insists that the Denver maidens beauty
beats the band"
| STUNNING COSTUME.
But if the Denver maiden's beauty is
scarcely in sight, her dress is wholly 'out of
sight" The western girl is nothing if not
brave and independent in all things, and IN
matters of fashion she assumes the breezy
freedom of The plains. 1t is matter of re-
cent gossip-her taking the initiative and
setting naughty Paris and New York by the
ears in introducing for the street and Office
the bicycle skirt, not the horrid compromise
affair, neither long nor short, you see worn
in the East. but a wholly different thing-a
natty, tailor, clipped affair that fondly ciags
about the knees and shows a tantalizlng
glimpse of graceful curves in garters. A
representative ofthe NeD York Journa came
out to investigate the story, and this is how
it all bappened-one sushy morning in the
early springtime a number of pretty girls
employed in the Capito. building put their
heads together to discuss q matter of grave
import, whether the wheel should continue
to have exclusive use Of the mooted garb
with its corresponding monopoly OF mascu.
line admiration, and after deal OF whs-
pering, they formed themselves into COM
miltee of the whole and unanimously resolved
they would defy Denver dccernm and do it.
The following morning at o'clock they did
| it, and the hiking skirt was on dress parade.
Denver was electrified as more than two
dozen pairs of Trihy feet and ankles brown,
rummed round with skirt to match, as short
as the law allowed, came tripping up the
State house steps. The male brigade rushed
from their desks TO block up the sidewalks
the whole shoQtin match Of them, each one
holding down a curbstonc, with faces turned
to the front and gaze directed to the ground.
The awful deed was done: next day it was
repeated, and the next with the same result.
Scarcely week had elapsed until scores OF
women had adopted the costume which has
now ,ased to excite remark
COLORADO SLANG
In one other feature the Denver girl can
score one over her eastern sister, q. E., in her
slang which like her garb is unique and up
to date Not even our clergy and clubwom
en- are exempt from 1t. AS one ofour leading
pulpts said, slang is like heresy; 1t isn't pol
icy to be too severe on it as one never can
tell how soon it may become good, respecta-
Bile, orthodox language"
Fancy if you can, preacher who "chews
the rag" congregation that "rubbernecks,"
a sermon sin the soup" prayer that takes
the bun, !" an anthem "out of sight and you
n,ay form faint idea of the perplexity and
despair that "knocks out" the maiden efforts
of reporter who is mot in IT,"
TEST OF TEKDERFoOT.
Yes, there crowds and crowds and crowds
and in your ability to escape these crowds OF
people and trucks and street cars and bicycles
and other old things, is Denver's measure
ment of you, your history, character and
residence, and was going to add your ante
cedents and final dcsliny. Should you escape
all these things unhurt, you are rated as
hustler of experience and character, predes-
tined to the good graces ard everlasting
favor of the gods. But If you are SO stupid
as to get "smashed into smitharecns," OF
sent soaring skyward into kingdom come
you are put in the patrol and driven to the
morgue or the hospital as the case mag re
} ouire, but not until you have been tagged MS
poor cuss" from somewhere down east
most lkely native of Philadelphia.
The season of the "Silycr Serpent" the
, annual Carnival of Mountain and Plain i:
: lust opening.-the biggest sensation OF the
gear. In ry next will tell you all about it
| shall also have something to sny about oul
> women in politics, our newspaper aud liter
aIy celebrities, &c, &c.
Greeting to al the friends.
A. J. NoRnrs.