Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-20

store. Well, went about better'n an hour
gettin' O. pair o. good domestic hose for my
son Jabez, and seven-eights of yard of
stuff for cheese bags; and sudden, bein un-
common tired, 1 felt week spell comm on,
and hadn't hardly strength to ask for
chintz for the-sitting room sofa.
"Next story ma'am,'' says the clerk, kind
O. looking sharp at me, "wouldn't you like
to take elevator"
Well aoas beat! 1t seemed most un-
common proceeding, and what never heard
no gentleman do before, to ask me to take a
elevator. I had my misgivings what it
meant for our Jabez with his jokes and what
nois, though his father and me is most strong
what he calls elevators, which is glasses O
speerits and water, calkerlated, as he says, to
raise droopin' feelins and failin' strength.
'.Sir,'' says as lofty as could, 81 pre-
fer not, and to my mind you'd do better for
q respectable shop not to be oferin' elewa
tors, leastwise not to me- So kept walk
in round, not likin, to ssk questions show
ing'my country ways,and still feeling that aw-
full feelin' of goneness which them as has week
spells is subject to, when another clerk,
hearin' me ask for chintzes, said something
again about my taking elevator. BY this
time felt dreadful, and SO, says I, maxim
up my mind it was q York fashion, and it
warn't best to seem too back country,
Thanks to you, sir,'' says 1, II don't mind
tryin' something of the kind, bein' most re-
markedly thirsty"
"Certainly, ma'am," says he, bowling care
less toward stand holdin' fancy pail witk
spigot to it, full of what might have tooh
to be water, judgin' by the taste, but know
we'll enough it was some deceitful, genteel
kind of liquor with the Taste and smell taken
| out, like they do to benzine and castor oil.
No sooner had swallered goblet of it
when the young man pinted to a
little room which, if you'll believe
ne, Mr.. Editor, give the queer
est kind Of jerk you ever see, just as looked
in, and seein' comfortable sofas all around
other ladies goin' i'll too so we all set down,
and couldn't help wondering whether the
poor things had been takin' elevators like
me. "It won't do no harm,'' says to my.
self, s'to sit here minute OF two till this
weak spell passes off, when, massy on me
if I didn't feel myself agoil' up Yes
agoin' up, and with me the room and sofas,
and ladies and all! I clutched hold of the
cushion. and stared kind O. wild, like as not
for one of the ladies bit her lip as if contem.
plating to laugh, and still we was agoin' up
leastwise. SO it seemed. Sits all on account
o. taking that elevator, thinks to myself land
then it come upon me how uncommon appro.
pirate the word was, meanin' drink, though
often had heard Jabez' pa scold him fol
using that vulgar expression. But couldn't
help feelin' scared, particular when see, al
of student, men and women kind O. walk
in about in the air. Once I jumped up t.
go out of the room, but man worKin' some
clockworks in the corner held ont his hand
TN one moment, MADAME said he, pushin
me back with such an air!
"Did you take q elevator" whispered
to the lady sitting alongside Of me. Shs
nodded her head without saying nothing
and, from her queer look, reckoned sh,
; was worse affected even than I wss.
cts the first one I ever took in my lif,
here in New York." continues I; "our coun
try elevators is more positive to take, Blu
they don't have nothing like the effect
though mustsay such things never oughte
to be took except in sickness"
CHOW, madame says the clock man, YER
, pompous, ssyou won't have no difficulty now.
Sure enough, didn't have no difficulty. Fo
mint the effects of the elevator passed Of
suddener than it came. followed the ladie
t out lively enough. but sakes alive! what
: time had finding the street door!
r never was SO bothered in all my life
though knowed all along what wa
the matter, but just kept on withou
) asking no questions of nobody, and fnall
: agoinin' down stairs and down stairs, an
!, expectin' nothing else but to find myself il
the kitchen, if Mr.. Stewards family live any
where in the buildin', which is most likely
: there bein' enough room should think
. Well, to make long story short, how / eve
T got ont of that store don't ever expect t
Q know, bat after once ketched sight of Their
a glass doors I didn't turn neck nor heel till
: stood on the sidewalk explainin' private to
f police that I'd been takin' elevator, an
: wouldn't he put me in q down-tow
!. stage. To this day I haven't said wor
: about the business to Jabez, nor HUSBAND
It nor no one to home. Some things had be.
: be bygones. But / feel it bounden dut,
f Mr.. Editor, to warn all respectable females
n great and small, not to be led into taki1
: elevators when they go into them Yor
: stores, least Of all this new-fangled kin
y which IS equally fatal in consequences I
J pure sperits, and tastes like nothing on cart
q but water, which leads you to taking to
n much. Hoping you will print these homes
f words for the benefit Of all concerned, I a
Is most respectfully yours to command,