Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-03-25
The WOmam WhO Lin1ers.


She stands on the corner with squad
of female friend, and smiles at the car
driver, ut the same time signaling him
with her parasol. As soon as he begins
to Slacken his pace. she opens in con-
versation with her friend The carstops,
and the conductor waits. She glances
around at him, steps down from the curb
stone. and branches off into fresh lot OF
talk. The conductor looks mad. He re-.
quests herto hurry up. She rushcs at the
car, seizes the iron hand.rail TO make sure
that she has got that car all safe and Ger.
tain, and then she determines that she
will have her talk out or perish on the
tlag-stones then and there. She has more
last wordSthan thcIndian chielw no refused
to die and 90 20 the happy hunting.ground
until he had said the Ten Commandments
and the Constitution Of the United States,
including the Fifteenth Amendment back
wards three times in his native tongue.
She holds on to that rail grimly. plants
one foot on the step, and yells ont, Give
my love to Maria, Tell Arabella she
owes me call! Don't forget to bring
William Henry and the children up to
tea on Tuesday night and tell Aunt Sa-
ral I'll nave that bombazine dyed black
and trimmed with buglesr' Conductor
looks like man who would commit un-
iustiiiable homicide upon slight provo
cation. In wrath he pulls the bell; tho
woman mounts the steps, smiles at her
friends, waves her parasol Mt them, when
she has sailed about . hundred yards up
the street she calls out, "Be sure TO tell
! Arabella, and don't let George suck the
ycllow paint off his mouth.organ" When
she is seated. the conductor waits awhile,
and then he asks for her fare. She feels
| in her pocket. Good gracious she hopes
she has not lost her purse! She dives
! into her satchel: it isn't there! Perhaps
the tickets are under her glove; she re-
moves i, slowly; but they can't be found!
She tries her pocket again, and finds the
purse there after all. Conductor looks
As Indignantly melancholy rs an arsto'
/ cratic undertaken at funeral at when
there are only four carriages and ayellow
pine coffin. The woman uniolds bundle
of notes slowly; butrs she doesn't find
the one she wants, she puts them all
back, and hunts around in her satchcl
! for five minutes Tor Il ten. cent note. Com
ductor gives her three cents change and
goes out on the platform, where he tears
his hair, kicks small newsl oy of the
steps, and tells his sorrowful tale 10 pas
senger who is smoking cigar Mean
while the woman has found an acquain
tance 20 whom she is talking as briskly
as il this was the first chance she had had
since last summer. She wants TO get out
at Twentieth street. Conductor stops the
car: but the woman, half rising, continues
her able remarks To her acquaintance.
Conductor says, please hurry up mad
am" and she jumps to her feet. shakes
hands with her friend, saying, "Oh' /
forgot to ask after John ", John is well
but the woman think, it necessary 20 Oh
fer some extended sanitary suggestions III
reference to Johns health, and to declare
tha, she will be abiectly miserable unies
Mary Jane brings the twins up to spend
the day. More objursaticns on the part
OF the degraded outcast on the back plat
form. The woman at last starts Tor tho
door. and is about to step off, when She
misses her purse She goes back into
the car 10 look for it,moves all the pass
engers, overturns all the hay, at last finds
the purse in her pocket, says "Good'bye;
come up to see me" again to her friend,
and gets out. Conductor rattles volley
of implications down the street after her,
pulls the strap savagely, and transfers
twenty five cents worth Of fares from
his business pocket into his own private
exchequer rs balm to soothe his lacer'
ated feelings Sunday Dispatch.