The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-13
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 to say, it is pleasant to OCCASION
ally meet really modest young person,
who had rather suffer ferinconvenience and
torture, even, than to make any fuss.
This was noticed more particularly dur
ing the last rainy 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 a 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 on the floor as he supposed, but
in fact he put it right into the low shoe
of one of those sweet, modest girls,
right onto 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 atten-
ton to what he was doing, but she
seemed to relent, 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 a 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 full it was, but again she
thought better of it, and looked across
the car at q man with a wart on his
nose. After few minutes she began to
shiver, which was conclusive evidence
to some that the water was coming up
around her instep and gradually over
flowing 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 impropriety in speaking to stran-
ger without an Introduction. Final
| ly 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 ask you, sir, without SEEM
ing to be impolite, to do me favor?p
| s'Why certainly, miss" said the old
man, as he looked down at her. s'What
is itP''
.'Wil you please take your umbrella
out of my shoe, for moment, and let
me take the shoe off and empty it,
"For heavens sake, miss, was my
umbrella in your. shoe? beg pardon"
and he took it out.
'sIt's 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. stThere, you can put
it right back, or if you would prefer 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 girl foot. The 9TH
er girl was not that kind of a retiring
child of nature, and Ae looked up at
the old blunderbuss with fire in her eye
and every red hair on her head meaning
business, and said:
Cant you keep off OF peoples feet?
You better ride in a sprinkling cart
when you go anywhere. Why dom t
you look where you are walking? l
don't see what the city bought a stone
crusher for, when you could walk on a
stone-quarry and furnish cobble-stones
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 um-
brella, but he didn't mash any feet, for
all the passengers put their feet under
the seat. 1t beats all what difference
there is in girls.-Peck's Sun.