The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-10-21
MRS. BLINKINS,
And How She Visited the st,
Louis Exposition.


things" and when she read in all the pa
pers about the great exposition in St.
Louis, she told her husband and all the
neighbors, "she meant to go and see for
herself" Mr.. BIiukins told her he could
T OF accompany her and "women had no
business 'traipsine' around the country
alone" but Mrs b. stood firm and one
morning she got up at O'Clock, routed out
the family to breakfast, washed the dishes,
swept the house, fed the dog, locked the
preserves closet, put On her slapsca
dress her new shawl, her best bonnet,
swung her reticule containing fourteen
doughnuis, a piece Of cheese, four pickles,
fried chicken, three Sic vi bread and
aud gless Of apple jelly-on her arm and
with many last il structions to old Mrs.
Jenkins, who had srrangtd 10 keep house
for her during her absence, wsnded her
way to the depot. Here she boarded the
tram with Coz ductor j. K Merriield in
charge, end merrily journeyed toward her
dest n ton. One adventure happened to
her worth relating however. When the
dinner hour arrived she opened her reticule
and upon a newspaper carefully spread over
her lap, laid ont part OF
the contents and proceeded TO
eat. A young, slim. downy-lipped, pointed
shOed, periumed man sat In frCnt Of her
and every now and then ogled and sighed
at blooming brunette u.t across the
aisle. Mrs. B. watched him for an instant,
noted his lean look and making up her
mind that be probably did not get enough
to eat, she picked up her fan, laid a pickle
and two doughnuts on it aod said, as she
offered IL TO him "Here, Young man, stop
winkin' and blinkiu' ct that pretty gal and
stow these away under that striped vest of
yours, You are as thin as a sh d and need
filing up"
The old l,dy meant well, hut the slim
young fellow was as mad as a man with a
boil. He frowned, turned red In the face,
andsthen said in aIicy 20 ce: Thank you,
madam, don't eat such common food as
pickles aud er a-twisted cakes"
Mrs. b. looked at him a minnie, laid
the CIV listed cakes" ard the pickles back
on the newspaper, folded her fan aad then
remarked SO that all the passengers could
hear: "You may not eat such common
ioodj though, for ali that, the pickles are
made Of the best cucumbers ever raised
and the twisted cakes with white sugar
aud fresh hen eggs, but one thing is sure,
the law of the land will never be broke up
by the amount of common serse you're
allowed" and then while the young man
escaped 10 The mex, car ard the passengers
includ ng the brunette, ltughed, Mrs. Is.
finished her dinner with a much comfort
as though st the be al of Tie table in her
own dining room.
AT last the train steamed into the
union depot at st. Louis and Mrs.
B. was besieged with the clamor of "'bus,
madam, hotel, etc" and after threatening
to thrash the head of of one runner" and
make another 'see stars" she WIS finally
headed toward the Lsclede hotel which she
had heard OF as place where country peo-
pie, especially, could get comfortable quar-
tiers at half price and the landlord met his
guests with smiles and blessings. Mrs. B.
got out OF the bus, went to the Office, wrote
her name with much labor and frequent
wiping of her spt ctscles In big book laid
before her, asked If she could "git a room
with bed in it and place TO wash her
hands for several DAYS or a week" and af-
ter being told that she could, followed the
bell boy as directed and was taken to the
elevator en- route to her room. Mrs. B.
had never seen an elevator and when she
was shown in, she thought it was her room
and at once she was mad and turned 90 the
boy in charge. "Do yt call this a room 2
Where's the bed and the wash place, you
young imp? Pm from Sedaly, but don't
you forget it, Pm no grseSer than the rest
of the people there, and ain'i going to pay
for a single thing / don't hayew Just
then the boy gave jerk on the rope and
the elevator shGt upward with bound that
threw Mrs. B. off her balance and tumbled
her painting with astonishment on one of
the seats Ia a minute, however. she was
able to talk and she said lord a. mighty,
young man, what kind of pace is this, any
how; it's a moving, do stop it
and let me out. I'll go back
home on the Fl st train and stay
there If you will, can't sleep In a room
that is running up like thermometer, do
let me out" just then the elrvator stopped
at tie third landing and the grinning boy
explained to Mrs B. that this was the Ell
evator, made to s.ve people from wearing
their lezs out climbing stairs, aud row If
she would step out and follow The bell boy
sgain she would be taken to her room at
once" She ms ekly did so, but once on the
5 lid floor shook her fist at the boy and
told him be " as "a mean little r.scil CT he
would have told her about the cO1traptiou
rs soon as she go. in, and not started off as
hOugh the house was t6r1."
At st she reached her room and was
much grati6ed to fird it had a very nice
oed IN It, which had evidently not been
iIept In more than twice with III being
'harged, and place where she could wash
% her lie rt's content.
The turning on of the water troubled her
| little, but 6ually she managed Z, and
amused herself for quite awhile with it's
lovelly. Then she began to worder how
he Was going TO get her supper, but at last
esolved to eat the re mains oil The chicken,
loughuuts, etc, anu after doing so took of
Ter alpaca dress, hung it UP carefully, and
Il lev minutes took from the bottom of
Ter reticuie her nightdress and her fam
lei nightcsp, and was soon Snoring q
vheszy sort of a snore as she wandered In
lraam land. How she GOT down 10 her