Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1913 — ‘BLIND,' BUT SEES SLIT SKIRT [ARTICLE]

‘BLIND,' BUT SEES SLIT SKIRT

Beautiful Girl's New-Style Dress Alyo Causes a Beggar te- Forget His "Dumbness.” Kansas City, Mo.—His eyes staring fixedly before him, M. J. McCarthy, a beggar, limped his way uncertainly along the street here with a large “deaf, dumb and blind” sign swinging from his neck. J. W. West gave McCarty a dime after reading a heart-touching story printed on a card handed him by MoCarty. As the beggar passed into the street from the Electric company's store, a very pretty young woman stepped up to him and gave him a dime. West saw the young woman approach the beggar, and he also saw that she bad on a slit skirt of the most extreme style. Then he saw, too, that the “blind” man saw what he saw. Apparently be had regained his sight at the approach of the slit skirt and what it only half concealed. He even looked back over his shoulder as the young woman proceeded down the street. “Um-m-m; me for that!” West heard him say. proving that he was not dumb. McCarty was arrested. He admitted he was “playing off,” and was “sent up” for 100 days.