News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
THE DIFFERENCE IN GIRLS.
The Smart Girl and the One who
was Not so Smart,
from the Milwaukee, SIM

lfrOm the Milwaukee Sun.
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 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 rainy day, when the
heavens seemed to be weeping over the
loss of the sun, which had not been
seeR at its accustomed haunts for over
month. An old man got into a street
car with his umbrella as wet as it is
possible for an umbrella to be. The
seats were all full, and ne closed his
umbrella and put the point down on the
floor as he supposed, but in fact he put
1t 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 attention to
what he was doing, but she seemed to
relent, aud with a resigned expression,
as though she hoped he was not going
| to ride many blocks, or perhaps some
body 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
near full of water it was, but again she
thought better of it, and looked across
| the car at a man with D wart on his
nose. After few minutes she began
| to shiver, which was conclusive evil
! dence to some that the water was com
ing up around her instep, and gradual
| ly overlooking the banks. She looked
as though she feared that if she spoke
to the man about it, he would think her
very forward, and that she was guilty
of an improperly 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 futter-
ing finger and said:
"May I ask you, sir, without seeming
to be impoIite, to do me favor"
"Why, certainly, MISS" said the old
man, as he looked down at her. "What
is it?"
CIVIL you please take your umbrella
out of my shoe, for a moment, and let
me take the shoe eff and empty it.
"For heavens sake miss, was my
umbrella in your shoe? beg pardon, u
and he took IL out.
cts of no consequence at all, ;" said
the little lady, as she turned up her
shoe on the side and let the black cam
brio water out. "There, you can put
it right back, or if you would prefer q
dry shoe for your umbrella you can put
I 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. The
other girl was not that kind of a retir.
| ib3 ShAAA VA ssOOAiO, anu oAC AOOhOo vi
at the old blunderbuss with fire in her
eye AID every red hair on her head
meaning business, and said
Cant you keep off peoples feet
You better ride in a sprinkling cart
where you can go anywhere. Why don't
you look where you are walking2 I
don't see what the city bought stone
crusher for, when you could walk on a
stone quarry and furnish cobblestones
| for pavement"
The old man pulled theben rope, ana
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 seats. 1t beats all what difference
there is in girls.