The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-07-20
"OPEN-BACK SHIRTS"

They Were sleepy lot on the O'Clock
car gong down Michigan avenue yester-
day. The day was not, the dust thick,
and only one man, and he beyond the
pr,me OF lite, opened his eyes as wo-
man crowded in, with long paper box
under her arm. His eyes opened little
more as sue sat down near him, and,
presently, they wiiened to their fullest
eX ent as he read the label on the box ::
"OnG dozen open-backed shirts" lie
glanced I'M the box to the female and
back, and groaned out:
Gland O lCve! bat what will come
next"
Sue looked around at him as It she
Dext, ,.and he frightened up litGt aud
said:
"Well, Pye worn 'em for year, and ]
know they are handy aud reliable. l.
my daughters want to get halt.a-!ozen
apiece | shan't Cry over l., :"
"Were you speaking to mep she asked
alter seelHS that no one else seemed in.
terested.
Il sorter was, and sorter wasn'p be
replied, as be WORKED faint smile to h 8
lace. Il was saying that it's wonderful
now much the inventive genius OF this
country has done for us on the shirt
question:"
She hitched away little.
"rwenty years ago." he unused, as he
hitched after her, "lf any man had told
| me tnat the dormant genius Of This coun
Lry would soon rou sc up and invent q
| bntton-behind shirt Pd nave looked upon
| him as crazy. But dormant genius was
nllO.K. She reused, she invented, and
Pye got one o. them very shirts on.n
The look she gave him ought to have
torn aim all TO pieces, but it didn't.
"One year ago." he calmly resumed
! tlf anybody had Coid ne that the gen
tier sex would sooE demand open
backed shirts, I'd have goue fishing
and never returned. But the epoch nas
move i'll sight-she's rght here. L Cal
recommend Them as boss"
"Wno are You talking to, Sill" she de
lnanded IN an awful vulce.
"To you, m@ @am. was saying tina
you shouldn't"
Il appeal TO these passengersw sh
exciteuly exclaimed.
$50 do l." he answered, "Eyerybod
in this car, with button-benind SUR
on, will please stand up until l ca
count noses"
The old man stood up. He was al
alone. He looked around in sofrowlu
way, and said:
"rhe noses have it, and the resolutio
is laid on the table. However, Pll site
to mine, and DON'T believe the woma
here will go back on her dozen till sh
mas given 'em a fair show. Which sid
of the neck do they button on, madam? F.?
The yells that followed brought in til
driver. The old man was pointed out a
drunkard and woman-insuiter, an
the driver was feeling Tor his neck, whe
the astouished man cried ou:
"Who's drunk? WHO'S iusulted any
bodyf'
t "iIe kept talking about shirts
screamed The woman with the box.
: "And you've got box-iullw shoute
+ the man.
, 81 hain't ne-W
She turned up the box, and saw tt
, label for the first time. She grew re-
: then white, and there was an awful 6
4 lence. Ripping off the cover, she eXhl
tied a bolt of mosquito netting nestle
\ away in the box. Nay, she held it u
| and even shook it at the old man. II
z smiled softly, nodded his head a doze
{ times, and blandly said:
1 "Correct, madam-l tumble to
: That doesn't look like a dozen butte
r behind shirts, and Pm grieved II l F.,
z isuded. Put 1t back, madam, fors
that you ever saw me, and wear al
z kind YOU are mind toV-lFree Press.