The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-11
A HOrse-Car IdyI.

The appeal demon entered a horse
car the other day, going north. He
picked out soft strap, and hung him.
self up ike week washing. The car
was full of passengers, and it struck the
demon that on the way up it would be
Q good chance to study human nature.
as it appears while rolling along in the
flve-cent luxury and magnifcence of a
street-car with brand new straw on the
floor
A couple of that portion of the female
sex called g daisies were seated in the
corner; moreover they were looking at
the demon, which made HIM blush, but
he would not have accepted seat for
anything, because then they could not
have admired him to so great an ad-
vantage. The demon made up his mind
that the darlings would soon commence
talking about their friends, and trotting
out their faults and idiosyncracies for
the editication of listening public, in
that dear fascinating way of theirs; he
was not more than block and half
out of the way in his reckoning. The
words in italics are those on which the
innocent creatures put special emphasis.
The conductor rung the bell, and the
young ladies started up; one said, in
voice which not only made her remark
audible to every one in the car, but loud
enough to arrest traffic and block up
the streets for four squares in every
direction:
g Haze you seen Lillian L. S new dross,
yet?"
No; have youP" replied sylph num-
Der two.
eyes; and it is perfectly hideous.
"Why! I thought Lillian had good
taste. =
''Oh no! She meUer dresses in ary
kind of harmony"
"Oh! BY the way, Fred A. has re-
turned from Colorado, and they say he
made Q miserable failure out there, and
that he's Just drinking himself 10 death. "
pleasant for " Fred" to have his
name banded about in this way.)
tOh! Too bad; and is May V. still
engaged to him?"
eyes; but then she never had MANI
admirers, and since her brother got
into disgrace Couder) of course she had
less attention than ever, so she hung on
to him. (Glances around
Speaking of May ", don't you
think she is growing palmer than she
used to be?"
Humph! She always was homely
enough to scare herself away from the
glass
"And she dresses in such fearful
taste. Did you ever see such a ria as
she appeared in the night of the S.
Strange, isn't it, that Fred could
have taken such a liking to satch d little
dowdy as she is?''
The car here came to a stop, and from |
the EXPLANATIONS of the beautiful de-
tanners, it was evident that the subject |
Of their conversation was entering. To |
have seen the meeting, one would have |
thought they had not seen each other
since, at least, the day before yesterday.
"Oh! you dear thing; where haze
you kept yourself this eUer so long?n
said the first young gazelle; the second
chimed in: Eyes, where haze you been
this age? The unsuspecting victim,
happy in the interest and friendship ex-
hibited by her "dear, dear friends
proceeded to detail her experiences dur
ing that age" in which her friends had
been fainting for sight of her, you
know. She ended by saying, with a
pretty little blush, that Fred A. had re-
turned.
''Has her'
"When?"
"Why! Who ever dreamed of such a
hing; we have heard nothing about him
or such long time. y
The demon stared; then, thinking
lis ear-trumpet had deceived him, he
turned over on the strap for another
''What did you think of the S. ball."
inquired the newcomer?
"Grdnd. wasn't it, and we were
atst saying how nell you looked; that
lress was so becoming"
That was too much; the demon felt
vs. he had felt one black bitter night
when he wrestled under the pale cold
noon with an overdose of lobster-salad,
md felt the fetid breath of a Thanks
irving turkey on his cheek; only more
o. He came down from his luxurious
ouch on the strap, by means of his
handkerchief, which he had torn into
trips and knotted for the purpose, and,
S the conductor walled out the street,
n a voice like the wind signing over
Orse-fiddles, the demon embarked in
nud-puddle. Finding himself on the
Ugh seas, he fired minute guns of dis
ress; he was rescued, and soon an
hored off the bar of a neighboring
estaurant, for the purpose of taking a
rain of coffee on board. Nel0sboys'
lppeaI.