Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — Saved by a Red Skirt. [ARTICLE]

Saved by a Red Skirt.

Presence of mind and the right color of underclothing <nabled a Mrs. Baker, of Allegheny, Pa., two or three days ago to flag a passenger train in time to pre- | vent its running into a tunnel that had caved in.—Savannah News A woman has just saved a train on 1 the Pittsburg and Western Railroad from a smash-up ip a tunnel by the strictly I feminine presepce of mind with which .she waved her red flannel This shows the importance of costume In critical emergencies. So, no wonder the chorus girls who are to plas®tgh- i land lads in “The Child of Fortune” at the Casino protest against kilts. There is not enough wave in a kilt even to drive off rheumatism.—New York Commercial. I ’The red skirt has often been subjected to unkind criticism as an article of woman’s apparel. Let nothing more be said in its disfavor. Mrs Baker, a widow living near Allegheny, Pa., has demonstrated that it can be made as distinctly useful as its critics have had it questionably ornamental. Finding a tunnel on the Pittsburg and Western road caved in, the plucky widow took off her red skirt, ran along the track waving it aloft, and stopped a passenger train just in tinie to avert a probably terrible disaster. Long may the red skirt wave, then, when it is in humanity’s cause!— New York World.