The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1882-07-08
THE DIFFERENcE IN GIRLS.

When the world is so full OF young
people who are too smart, and who are
continually asserting themselves, and
showing that they want to have some-
thing 10 say, it is plcasan; TO OCCASION
ally meet real modest young person,
who had rather suffer inconvenience and
torture, even than to make any FUSS
This was noticed more particularly the
last rainy day, when the heavens seemed
TO be weeping over the loss of the sun,
which had not been seen at its accus-
toned haunts for over a month. An
old man got into street car with his
umbrella as wet as il is possible for an
umbrella TO be. The seats were all full,
and he closed his umbrella and put the
point down on the floor as he supposed,
but in fact he put il right into the low
shoe OF one OF these sweet, modest girls,
right on to her stocking, and the dirty
water more than poured down into the
shoe. At first she looked as though she
would move her foot, and call his at
tention to what he was doing, but she
seemed to releni, and with a resigned
expression, as though she hoped he was
not going to ride many blocks, or per.
haps somebody would get out and give
him seat, she looked out Of the win
dow. Once she moved her head as
though she would look down at her shoe
TO see how near full OF water il was, but
again she thought better OF il, and look
cd across the car at man with a wart
nsa eka
began to shiver, which was conclusive
evidence to some that the water was
coming up around her instep, and grad
ually overfowing the banks. She look.
ed though she feared that il she spoke
10 the man about il, he would think her
very forward, and that she was guilty OF
an impropriety in speaking to a stranger
without an introduction. Finally she
became nervous, and when girl begins
to get nervous something has got to be
done. She blushed and touched him
on the hand that held the umbrella
handle with her little huttering finger
and said:
"May ask you. sir, without seeming
to be impolite, to do me a favor ?"
"why certainly, miss" said the old
man. as he looked down a; her. "what
is it?"
"Will you please take your umbrella
out OF my shoe, for a moment, and let
me take the shoe off and empty j, ,"
"For heavens sake, miss, was my
umbrella in your shoe? beg your par
don," and he took il out.
''lts of no consequence At all" said
the little lady, as she turned up her shoe
on the side and let the black cambnc
water out. "There, you can put il right
back. or il YOU would perfer dry shoe
for your umbrella you can put il in this
other one"
Blu, the old man blushed and moved
off TO the other side of the car, and
stepped on another girls foot. The
other girl was not that sort OF retiring
child Of nature and she locked up At the
old blunderbuss with fire in her eye and
every red hair on her head meaning
business, and said
"Can't you keep of Of peoples feetS
You had better ride in sprinkling cart
when you go anywhere. Why don't
youlook where you are walkings don't
see what the city bought stone-crusher
for, when you could walk on a stone
quarry and furnish cobblestones for pave
ments."
The old man pulled the bell-rope,
and putting his umbrella under his arm
he walked the whole length Of the car,
knocking of several hats with the um-
brella, but he didn't mash any feet for
all the passengers put their feet under
the seat. IL beats all what difference
there is in girls.-Geoyge w Pefk.