The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-10-16
HOW a WoaEAN RouaaT a TIoKET.

HOW A WOMAN BOUGHT a GACAkSA'
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things which she said no woman
could do, bnt she forgot sever 81 items
and, among other things, she forgot
to mention that the woman has never
been found yet who could buy q rail-
road ticket and get heFself safely on
board train without raising q gener-
al commotioR and bothering eYeFy-
body else around the place, and then
she always looks as though she
thought she ought to have present
of new silk dress for getting on the
car at ali. i'@a1 59i 'ass+iA
There was one OF this kind ofwo-
men went over to Newark the other
day. She got down ON the ferry
about five lilinates9 before the, boat
started, and OF course she didn & have
any ticket, so she stepped ap ato the
Office to buy one. She first asked the
clerk what time the next train left for
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i'Six o'clock, madam. ~ i'a3itI
lslssTY hat time is ii noWt2v i f. j
For reply the clerk pointed to the
clock which oceapiesl'e q conspicuous
/ position. isOh, yes,i Il forgot. Yof And
then. she took out her watch and
found che was D minute and three
quarters slow. Of course she didn't
alter the watch, she never Intended
/ to, but it was satisfaction . TO know
lust how 1t was. By this time athere
we're two or three women and hal "a
dozen men behihd her waiting to buy
tickets, but bless you'll that woman
paid no faore attention. to them than
she did to the precision of the lequi-
noxes. Finally, she remembered
that she wariteda 8 ticket, sosAefeIt for
her pocket-beok and couldilat ind it,
until she 1appened to think that it
was in her fetfctile, which was EiaT-
messed TO her waist, so she got it IN
front OF her, and managed to find the
pocket book. OF course it had money
in every comp and the money
was wadded and twisted up SO the
book was ready to burst. First she
unrolied 3 lot of large bills, and rolled
them up better then shs looked at
SONS ones and tWcs, but concluded
/ she wouldn't have q bill broke, so she
rumaged around. and found q lot of
postal Gu ency, but 1iE W 0Illd dat pay
to have the clerk make ehaHge for her
so she hunted until she fOnnda ifteeD
cent stamp, thensshe got a two cent
piece and chased a. three cent piece all
around that pocket book, and when
she captured it she laid down the
twenty cents and looked at the ticket
man as IL she expected TO hear him
thank her for haVing him all she
trouble Of making ehaage9 But ahe
didfi't say any thing of the kind, and
diane ( even look much as though he
meant to- p 9ifI09q 1E5 e 500
OF course, anybody would think.
when she had bought her ticket this
femal0 might have got out of the way,
but she wasn't-quite ready yet. She.
had to look At the ticket and pat it
back into the portm0nie, aud put that
in her haVersack, and wriggle' that
back where il belonged, and sthen
Bwhenisls got into the narrow. passage
way leading to the boat, she had to,
stop and go through the whole per-
formahce again before she could tear
OF the coupon to give TO the taker.
dustthen9 she saw q Wemani behind
her whom, she knew, and abe couldn't
wait another minute to talk over that
terrible affair about poor old Mrs.
Smith. Meantime tbs fifteen .or gwen-
ty men behind her were talking about
her. Most of what they said is ia. the
Prayer Book, but not in. quite the
same order. By-and-by, however, she
fsmem bered that she wan ted to 90 to
NeWarkg gand the boat was Just start
fngs so she had to ran . aud so did the
men, and then they all came near
missing the boat, and all because that
woman conIdil't attend to business in
d business like way y.l21i9i 9fHgiiI & 3
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