Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1905 — Women Dance for Mouse. [ARTICLE]

Women Dance for Mouse.

At exactly 9:45 o'clock Thursday morning a little brown mouse stole out from the main corridor of the Missou-ri-Lkicoln Trust building at Seventh and Olive streets and took a short constitutional of about twenty-five feet west In Olive, says the St. Louis PostDispatch. In the course of that innocent jaunt he frightened so many women that a feminine panic ensued and so much screaming and scampering about was done that the mouse started buck for the more masculine calm of the Missouri-Bincoln Trust building. As he gained the entrance, however, a large and formisjable-looking woman espied him, and with a wild shriek and a frenzied grasping of the skirts, began executing such a remarkable dance on the sill of the big skyscraper that the mouse lost his head and scurried clear across Olive stret. Arriving nt the curb on the south side, he passed under a carriage from which two women were alighting and emerged on the sidewalk simultaneously with them. At once they set up an outcry and circled around on the pavement in a dismayed minuet such as has never before been seen in St. Louis. By this time a big crowd had gathered, and the laughter of men and boys mingled with the shrieking nnd screaming of women and girls. The uproar became so appalling to the mouse that finally, reckless of consequences, lie precipitated himself through an open grating into a cellar and has not been seen since. Ills unusual and uncommon experience while in quest of a little fresh air lasted just five minutes.