River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-07-06
THE DIFFERENCE IN GIRLS.
How the same Man lis Regarded From
EarInun Sfandnainfs

When the world is so full of young
PEG. lie who are too smart, and who are
continually asserting themselves and
showing that they want to have some
thing to say, it Is pleasant occasionally
to meet a real modest young person,
who had rather suffer inconvenience,
and torture even, than to make any
fuss. This was noticed more particu-
larly during the last rainy day, when
the heavens seem to be weeping over
the loss of the sun, which had not been
seen at Its accustomed haunts for over
a month. An old gentleman got into
street car, with his umbrella as wet
as it was possible for an umbrella to
be. The seats were all full, and he
closed the umbrella and put it point
down on the floor, as he supposed, but
In fact, he put it right into the shoe of
one of those modest girls, right
ON to her stocking, and the dirty
water more than poured down into her
shoe. AT first she looked as
though she would move her foot and
call his attention to what he was doing.
but seemed TO relent, and with re-
signed expression, as though she hoped
that he was not going to ride many
blocks, or perhaps somebody would
get out and give him seat, she looked
out of the window. Once she moved
her head as though she would look
down at her shoe to see how full of
water it was, but again she thought
better of it, and looked across the car
at man with a wart on his nose. AT
he 4N Oh.
which was conclusive evidence to some
that the water was coming up around
her instep, and gradually OVERLOOKING
the banks. She looked as though she
feared that if she spoke to the man
about it he would think she was very
forward, and that she was guilty of an
improperly of speaking to stranger
without an introduction. Finally she
became nervous, and when a girl be-
comes nervous something has got to
be done. She blushed and touched
him on the hand that held the umbrcl-
la handle with her little futtering fin
ger, and said:
"May | ask you sir, with out seeming
to be impolite, to do me favor?"
"Why, certainly, miss" said the old
man, as he looked down at her as
though he had made mash. "What
is it?'
"Will you please take your umbrel-
la out of my shoe for q moment, and
let me take the shoe off and empty it?"
For heavens sake, miss, was my
in your shoe | beg pardon"
and he took it out.
" It's of no consequence at all, said
the lady, as she turned up her shoe on
the eide, and let the black cambria
water out. "There, you can put it
right back again, or if you would pre-
fer a dry shoe for your umbrella you
can put it in this other one."
But the old man blushed, and moved
off to the other end of the car, and
stepped on another girls foot. Tire
other girl was not that kind of a rctir-
ing child of nature, and she looked up
at the old blunderbuss with fire in her
eye, and very red hair on her head,
business, and said:
" Can't you keep off peoples feet ?
Why don't you look where you are
walking | don't see what the city
bought a stone-crusher for when you
could walk on stone quarry. and fur
nish cobble stones for a pavement"
The old man pulled the bell-rope,
and putting his umbrella under his
arm. walked the whole length of the
car knocking off several hats with the
but he didn't mash any feet,
for all the passengers put their feet un-
der the seat. 1t beats all what differ
ence there is in girls.-BouEington
Ha'Okeye.