The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-06-16
The Washers On the Cars.

Going out to Cambridge, the other
day, on the Fitchburg Railroad, saw a
modest looking woman enter the car
accompanied by a couple of girls, APP
parently her daughters. They were of
the common, Daisy Miller type, not at
all wicked but excessively silly and
Argus eyed for admiration. Soon they
hooked pair of gilded Harvard youths
who turned around in their seats and
began to eye their victims over. By the
time we had got to the first station the
young people were in the full tide of a
gorgeous Irritation, notwithstanding
that the poor mother tried her best to
stem the flood. AS the train slowed up
the women showed signs Of departing
and the young men Immediately got up
and went out on the platform. BY this
time the whole car had become inter-
ested in the scene. As the girls got off,
the two Washers raised their hats, smiled
from ear to ear and delivered the Har-
ward bow, feat of contortion which
must be seen to be appreciated. But as
the younger cub slowly came up to the
perpendicular the old lady gently lifted
him by the ear and, with sweet smile.
handed him tenderly as q jug of molasses
on to the train. The maneuver was eff
fected without word from any of the
parties. Only when the boys re- entered
our car, blushing deeply, there was a
smile along the aisle. The conductor
coughed uneasily; three or four of the
passengers echoed it, a man in the cor
ner remarked audibly that he "didn't
know as Jesse Pomeroy, the child-killer,
had been let out agin;'' and Professor
kokun- ho took off his iron clad spec
tacles and said in the choicest oolong,
'Melican boy muchee cheeky all
samee one foolee." The boys were very
young i'll the business of captivation
anil kept EXTREMITY quiet until q brake
man poked in his head and sung out,
"Camburridge." Most of us got off there,
but the two youths pretended they
were going further. until the train be-
gan to move, when they hastily jumped
from the front platform and ran up the
steps of the depot, disappointing an en-
thusiasUic crowd, who wanted to give
them an ovation. The scene on the
platform, minus the ear-pulling, was
complete and perfect mash A
young suaH, pTouu OF MS store clothes
stares at a young woman till she grins
at him, when he grins back; perhaps
they exchange little nonsense; then
they bow and part and there usually is
the end of it. The youth goes off to
tell other equally talented dummies of
the conquest he has made; and the girl
contides to her chums how per
feetly splendid feller'' flirted with her.
Occasionally the mash and Irritation
eliminate in the perfectly splendid joke
narrated in the first part of this letter.
But that is the exception, not the rule.
Ordinarily it is merely an affinity of
vacuums. Hence the Henry james
literature and much ugly comment from
ignorant foreigners on the thought of
being immodest or anything but enjoy
ing good time. On the part of the
male player | think the game is not so
innocent and l doubt if any fiirt of that
sex would care to see his wife or sister
indulging in it. Regarded in its inno-
cent aspect, the fun of grinning and be-
ing grinned at must be as delightful as
writing love letters to ones self and pay
ing the postage.-Boston Cor. Detroit
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