Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1895 — Gallery of Horrible Examples. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gallery of Horrible Examples.

New York World. When a young woman achieves success in any line of work not connected with domesticity of fetnininity. she frequently makes the mistake of trying to look like the man

whose place she may be said to hav« usurped. Nature having had other views on the subject, renders this impossible, and the result is a caricature. Here is one such. It is the picture of a young woman of unusual intelligence, and skill. She has not displayed these qualities in her outfit and make-up, however. When she found that she could design buildings, she promptlj’ parted het hair on the s ite. Not content with that, she pi- needed to part it on both sides, brushing it up and back aggressively in the middle. Then she took to collars, shirt fronts, men’s ties, waistcoats and coats. The result is the above —a singularly anddeliberately unattractive young person, who has to be labelled “Miss Mercer, of Pittsburg,” in order to be distinguished from a Mr. Mercer, oi anywhere. The mere fact that she has designed a building for the Atlanta Exhibition is no excuse, though it may be some explanation, for woman's attire.

“MISS MERCER. OF PITTSBURG.”