The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-16
The Difference i'm 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
something to say, it is pleasant to
occasionally meet real modest
yonng person, who would 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 seen at its accustomed haunts
for over a month. An old man got
into q street car with his umbrella
as wet as it is possible for an um-
brella 10 be. The seats were all full
and be closed his umbrella and put
the point down 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 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, and with re-
signed expression, as though she
hoped be was not going 10 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 and
see how near full of water 1T was,
but again she thought better of it,
and looked across the car at the man
with Il wart on his nose. After a
few minutes she began to shiver,
which was conclusive evidence to
some that the water was coming up
around her instep, and gradually
overhowing 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 stranger without an
introduction. Finally she became
nervous, and when "A 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 futtering fin
ger 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 ut her.
What is it?"
"Will you please take your UNI
brella out of my shoe, for 4 mo-
ment, and let me take the shoe off I
and empty it?
For heavens sake, miss, was my /
umbrella in your shoe? i beg par /!
don, and be took it out.
Its of no consequence at all, |
said the little lady, as she turned up /
her shoe on the side and let the /
black cambric water out. There, /
YOU can put it right back, or if you /
would prefer a dry shoe for your
umbrella you can put it in this 9TH
er one"
But the old man blushed and
moved off TO the end of the car, and
stepped on another girls foot. The
other girl was not that kind of re-
firing child of nature, and she look
ed up at the old hlunderbus with
fire in her eye and every red hair on
her head meaning business, and /
said.
Cant you keep off Of peoples
feet. You'd better ride in a sprink-
ling cart when you 60 anywhere. I
Why don't you look where you're
| don't see what the city
bought a stone crusl er for, when
you could walk on n stone quarry
and furnish cobble for paving"
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 umbrella. 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.-George ". Peck