Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-01-12
Newspaper Borrowers.

Newspaper Borrowers.
Time: Saturday morning, 8 O'Clock.
Scene BREAKFAST table a rap is heard at
the door, and the newspaper is for a few
moments open before the fire.
Come, John, it won't do to Try 1t too
long, for 1 see neighbor Shocks is sending
his son after it,''
Another rap at the door.
"Father wants to know If you will just
lend him the newspaper five minutes if
you amt done with it he will send it right
back. He only wants to see II the
brig Star has been heard from, which our
Tom went ill.,"
Tell your father the brig is not report
ed"
Home he trips, and he speedily returns
"Mother wants to know who was buri>
ed yesterday; can't you lend it to her just
two minutes ?"
Tell your mother that all the deaths this
week are Mr.. - and a child OF Mrs.
In a few moments another rap is heard.
"SiSter Susan wants to know ii anybody
is married this week, and Uncle Joe wants
to know whats the news frem Kentucky,
and Aunt Shocks wants to know if there
is any more pretty stories about that JAR
Wis woman if you can't spare the paper
why you just write down what there is,
just cause I don't want to keep running
back and forward so or"
sHere, my lad. take this paper to your
{ father, and around to all your uncles and
aunts, and have it back, whatever is left
Of it,, next Saturday morning at 8
O'Clock precisely, when you come to Dor
row the next"
Ten applications on Saturday by borrow
ers, all sent to neighbor Shocks, with a
| particular caution to return it there when
done with it.
Monday morning a rap at the door, and
the boy with the paper is ushered in.
"Mother says it is too much plagne to
keep the paper all the week, people KEEP
coming after it 80"
Who Should Bow First.
Who has not heard ladies express milo
surprise because some mat who had been
presented to them had not bowed
on the street, at the theatre or in
the drawing room? If you ask them.
"Did you recognise him ?" they
will be apt to reply,'Oh, no; ofcourse not
He should have spoken first" Being re-
minded of the we'll defined etiquette bear
on the subject, they are likely to add, u
know that very well but no woman want:
to take the initiative. Men should dc
that it's their BUSINESS it doesn't belong
to us. No one expects us to make our
selves SO bold" The truth is, the MAORI
ty of women are naturally so accustomed
to man paying court to them, to his max
ing the first advance in everything that the,
can't find it in their sexual se%nsltiveness
in their severely conventional selves, to
obey a mandate they originally issued and
still insist on perpetuating. Not one wo-
man in ten thousand has any fault to find
with the rule in fact, we have never
known a woman to object to it. Never
theless, she seldom follows it in her Owl
case. Sometimes a oman says, as a sol
of self Justification, s%'supposing [ should
speak to q man, on meeting him after al
introduction, and he should not remem
Der me! How awkward I should appear
how overwhelmed I should be with shame
to observe that he did not recognise me
I can't afford to place myself IN aposltior
to seem to be cut by any a 1t an
number of woman feel thus the point Q
etiquette should be changed in order t
save their sensibilities In truth, however
the objection is not we'll made. There
not the smallest danger than any mar
presuming him Of necessity to be a gentle
man, at least in respect to his observin
the ordinary terms of courtesy, would re
fuse or hesitate to return the acknowledge
ment of q woman, even though he migl
not have the remo.est recollection of eve
having seen her before, Or though he Wer
, convinced she had %confounded him wit
somebody else. And the fact that he ha
been recognized by a woman would be til
strongest presumptive evidence that h
had been presented to her. Men are nc
likely either to forget their feminine &C
uuaintances or to mistake Mrs. Thompso
for Mrs. Robinson, or Miss Blank for Mis-
3 Dash.-Appleton's Journal.
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