Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-05-30
The Ticket-Buyer.

1t Is very amusing to watch som,
people buy opera tickets. The Othel
day about four hundred people filed tn,
Academy of Music lobby in Milwaukee
and crowded the steps and sidewalk il
front of the building, eagerly elbOwins
and pushing their way toward the ticket
window, where the treasurer was deal
ing out the little bits of pastebOard
An elegantly dressed, refined appearing
and very pretty young lady, who lives
i'll palatial home i'll the Seventh ward.
worked her way to the window, and.
spreading out the diagram, with one
hand on each side to make sure of it,
asked the ticket-seller the price of re-
served seats.
The general admission down stairs
is fifty cents, replied the seller, ''re-
served seats seventy five cents. Up
stairs twenty five cents admission and
reserved seats fifty cents
"What is the opera for this after
noon - asked the young lady, as she
carefully Scrutinized the badly disfgur-
ed diagram, 50 many of the seats hav-
ing been marked off in advance.
lolanthe, ma am.
''Oh, I'm SO sorry; L thought it was
Martha, - she remarked, and then con-
tinUed:
We'll, | want four seats, anyhow
They must all be together. Let me see.
| guess | Will take four in this row, =
pointing to a section of the dress circle
where every seat was marked off.
Those seats are sold. -
''ls that So? am So sorry. We want
ed to sit along there. Where are some
good seats, please:'
BY actual time the young lady had
.clutched the diagram for eight minutes
.at this point. The crowd was swelling
and the people We're fast becoming very
impatient. The treasurer said:
Here are three very good seats to-
gether and one right back of them, that
will make YOU FOUR
That won't do. We must sit in the
same row, and | don't want seats way
down in the parQuette."
Then she took the diagram out of the
window and holding it up before her
ran her eyes over and over it for two
minutes. The red, red blood began
rushing toward the sellers face rs he
heard people clamoring for tickets. But
he uttered not word.
Finally, afte. asking ten more queS-
tons of about the same nature as those
mentioned, she pointed to four seats
and Said she would take them, handing
him tive dollar bill. In an instant he
returned four tickets and one dollar and
twenty i've cents i'll change. This
isn't right, she said, taking up the
money, those seats | wanted are only
fifty cents, amt they?"
Everything, madam, down stairs. |
told you seventeen times. is seventy live
cents" was the somewhat short reply,
and getting the diagram out of the
young lddy's hand, he passed it over
her shoulders To some ladies who had
been patiently waiting, and the fair
opera ticket purchaser reluctantly pass
ed from III front of the window. She
stood there for full fifteen minutes, and
that Is al awful long time when three
or four hundred people are waiting to
be served. There We're other instances
just as amusing. The most of the
young .adIes WHO bought tickets carried
handbags, in the depths of which were
three or four small purses containing
their money. 1t would take from one
toiive minutes for everyone of them To
hnd the right purse before they could
pay for their tickets.