Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1913 — CARRIED A RUG FOR A MUFF [ARTICLE]

CARRIED A RUG FOR A MUFF

But the Five-Foot Wolfskin Attracted No Espeqial Attention on. the Streets of Boston.

Miss Geraldine Bowman, a student at an eastern art school, recently, proved that women can wear anything and “get away with if' Miss Bowman did no more and no less than to parade through the shopping district with a five-foot fur floor rug rolled up into a muff and she failed to excite attention. The girl accomplished the feat on a dare and won... Some of the students at the school laid a wager that a woman could not carry a large floor rug through the streets of Boston and pass It off for one of the huge muffs now. in vogue. Miss Bowman thought she could carry through such a stunt to a

successful culmination and even proposed starting the parade during the busy noon hour.

So taking a five-foot wolfskin rug from the floor of her home, she gave it & whirl or two about her hands and with the head of the animal in full view, she carried it gracefully and soon was moving about in the throng of busy shoppers. Trailed by a half dozen doubting classmates Miss strolled unconcernedly through the downtown district and there was] not the slightest ingestion that anyqne mistrusted that the beautiful skin which closely resembles silver fox, was other than a genuine, fashionably made muff.

Faults. Be not lenient to your own faults; keep your pardon for others.—Japanese Proverb. .