The Saint Paul globe., 1902-06-03
BROWN THEIR ARMS.
New Fad Among Girls Disturbs Den
Yer University Professors.

DENVER. Col. June 2.1The "Christy
Gtrl' has new fad. She is so enthu-
slastc an outdoor sportswoman that
Sne not only shOrtens up her hamperfng
skirts, but turns back the binding neck
OF her tallor-made shirtwaist and rolls
is sleeves away up above her energetic
elbows. Then she forgets or refuses 10
FOIL those sleeves down again when she
comes In off the golf links, and causes
her mother. her teachers and her aunts
no end of mental anguish
she IS proud of those firm, round arms
that are as brown as a berry Just as
proud Of their color" as she was Of her
tanned face a season ago. when All thn
bellies Of the Eastern summer resorts dis
carded their hats and We'd with each
other in staying out in the blazing sun
from morning till night, to see who could
get the healthiest-and the blackest.
Christy Pictures Responsible.
1t was the regulation thing at the
swagger evening function to see fair
halred beauty with the face and throat
or an octoroon down to "high water
mark and then where the dainty even
ing gown was cut away to have star
Ting vivid line of original white.
Then the golf girl went a step farther
ana started in to brown her arms as an
addltIonal proof OF her strenuously ath-
let1c procliyities. And sne found the
rolled-back sleeves SO comfortable ana
the pictures that Christy made Of her "a
tetchlng, that Immediately new fad was
born. 0
RAIDS travel westward with amazing
Lapldlty. This one reached Chicago be-
fore the staid materfamIias and fhe
stern-eyed professors with no nonsense
ABOUT them were fully prepared for it
line result was astonishment, consterna
uon ana mortified disap proval VIXEN the
Iad struck the university with whfrIvyind
Iorce. Every girl who had ever plaved
gof, or ever intended to, took ADVANTAGE
or the warm weather to roll IN ber
1Iee'Gs ana come to classes in comfort.
rI.oeo = ne poys were distracted; likewise the
pioiessors. Inc thing had to be stopped
hoys Are HorrIfled, Too.
The girls refused to give up one iota Of
@ eiieIr coH1ort-and attractiveness-and IL
was war to the knife. The girls vvnn
me boys and the professors arc a-ettirc,
Used 70 It, and in fact are beginning To
rather like it. ''''iiiis u
Iheh the fad took a turn southwark to
the indianapolis high school. Indian
apolls does whatever Chicago does in \
LIoulIed sort of way, and old-fashioned
PloleSsofs there are just starting in tn
struggle with the new problem. Rolled
UP sleeves are an afront to the dionfr,,
OF thelr model institution The bows will
De wanting to attend school in their shirt
sleeves next, If this pernicious practice
OF the girls is permitted to gan n foot
hoid they are having very warm
weather in Indianapolis now-both out-
side the high school walls and within
Man Starts Fashion in Denver.
The weather in Denver hasn't been
warm enough as yet TO warrant any in
nov Natlons The girls at the university
Solf links have to exercise to keep warm
between puts" But they've heard ~
the proper caper with regard to sIeevaa
and are ready for it.
The Wolcott girls long ago adopted the
hatless fad. They take their constitution
ais and sprints around the block bare
Eeaded as matter Of course. 1t is only
question of a weeks sun when the
roIled-back sleeves will begin to edifv
the neighbors.
The fad doesn't belong exclusively +o
girls in the East The Gibson man really
started 1T, and the Christy man followed
suit Mr.. II. r. Guggenheim, who drives
tandem, knows all about it, and fs
really the Denver exponent Of this latest
wrinkle of the smart set During fine
Few warm days of a week ago he was set
tlng the fashion on the street in a sus
penderless shirtwaist with the sleeves
relied neatly back beyond the elbows ~
arms that would be a credit to Hercules.