The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-24
The n;Raranea 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 whnt to have some
thing TO say, it is pleasant 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 dur
ing the last r,iiny day, when the heav-
ems seemed to be weeping over the loss
of the sun, which had not been seen at
its accustomed haunts for over month.
An old man got into street-car with
his umbrella as wet as it 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 sup
posed, but In fact he put it right into
the low shoe of one of these sweet, mod
est girls, right ON to her stocking. and
tho dirty water moro than poured down
into the shod. At first she looked as
though she would move her foot, and
call his attention to what he was doing,
but she seemed to relent, and with a re-
signed expression. as though she hoped
he was not going to ride many blocks,
or perhaps somebody would get out and
give him seat. she looked out of tho
window. Once she moved her head as
though she would look down at her shoe
to see how near full of Water it was, but
again she thought better of it. and look
cd across tho car at o man with a wart
on his nose. After a few minutes she
began to shiver. which was conclusive
evidence TO some that the water WINS
coming up around her instep, and grad
ually OVERLOOKING the banks. She look
al ch. go hot CHI
to the man about it, he would think her
very forward, and that she was guilty of
an 'impropriety in speaking to n strang-
er 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 fluttering finger and
said:
May ask you, sir, without seeming
to be impolite, to do me favorP''
why certainly, miss said the old
man. rs he looked down at her. What
is itP''
.'Will you please take your umbrella
ont of my shoe. for a moment, and let
me take the shoe off and empty it,
''For heavens sake, miss, was my
umbrella in your shoeP Ibeg pardon"
and he took it out
Its Of no consequence at all, said
tho little lady, as she turned up her shoe
on the side and let the black cambria
water ont. There, you can put it
right back, or if you would prefer dry
Shoe for your umbrella you can put it
in this other one y
But the old man blushed and moved
off to the other end of the car, and step
ped on another girl's foot. The other
girl was not that kind of a retiring child
of nature, and she looked up at the old
blunderbuss with fire in her eye and ey-
cry red hair on her head meaning bust
ness, and said:
Cant you keep off of peoples feet?
You better ride in sprinkling cart
when you go anywhere. Why don'tyou
look where you are walking? / don't
SEQ what the city bought a stone-crlish-
er for, when you could walk on a stone
quarry and furnish cobblestones for
pavement"
The old man pulled the bell rope, and
putting his umbrella under his arm he
walked the whole length of the car.
knocking off several hats with the UNI
brella, but he didn't mash any feet, for
all the passengers put their feet under
the seat 1t beats all what a difference
there Is In girls.-Geo. ". Peck