The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-11

Going out to Cambridge, the other
day. on the Fitchburg Railroad. ! saw a
modest looking woman enter the car
accompanied by couple of girls, ap..
parently her daughters. They were OF
the common, Daisy Miller type, not ~
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 fun tide OF
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 of,
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 a 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
Ko-kun- no took off his iron-clad spec
tacles and said in the choicest oolong,
/" Mclean boy muchee cheeky all
samee one foolee." The boys were very
young in the business of captivation
anil kept extremity quiet until q brake
man poked in his head and sung out,
"Camburridge." Most of us gotoff 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 a
complete and perfect "mash y A
Young man, proud of his store clothes
stares at a young woman till she grins
at him, when be grips 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 a "per-
fectly splendid teller" firted with her.
Occasionally the ma h 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 a good time. On the part of the
male player think the game is not so
innocent and doubt if any fiirt of that
sex would care to see his wife or sister
INDUCING 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 one self and pay
ing the postage. Boston Cor. Detroit
Free Press.