The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18

She sobbed several more times, then
hove sigh that ratified the windows in the
car, and sat up. Iasked her il l might sit
by her side for few miles and share her
great sorrow. She looked at me askance.
did not resent it. She allowed me to take
the seat, and looked at paper for few
moments so that she could look me over
through the corner of her eyes. I also
scrutnized her lineaments some.
She was dressed up considerably, and
when woman dresses up to ride in a rail-
way train she advertises the fact thG5 her
intellect is beginning to totter on its throne
People who have more than one suit of
clothes should not pick out fine raiment for
travelling purposes. This person was not
handsomely dressed, but she had the kind OF
clothes that look as though they had tired
to present the appearance of affiuence and
hal failed to do SO.
This leads me to say in all seriousness
that there is nothing so sad as the sight of 3
m IN or woman who wou' scorn to tell e
wrong story, but who will persist in wear
ing bogus clothes and bogus jewelry that
wouldn't fool anybody.
Ny seat-mate wore a cloak that had
started out to bamboozle the American peo-
pie with the idea that it was worth one
hundred dollars, but it wouldn't bamboozls
any one who might be nearer than half a
mile. / also discovered that it had an air
about it that would indicate that she wore
it while she cooked the pancakes ard fried
the doughnuts. 1t hardly seems possible
that she would do this, but the garment
say, had that air about it.
She seemed to want to converse after
awhile, and as she began on the subject OF
literature, picking up volume that had
been left in her seat by the train-boy, en-
titled "Shadowed to Skowhegan and Back;
or, The Child Fiend; price two dollars" we
drifted on pleasantly into the broad 90
main of letters
incidentally asked her what authors
she read mostly.
"Oh, | don't remember the authors SO
much as / do the books," said she; II am
a great reader If / should tell you
low much / have read you wouldn't be lleve
it."
l said certainly would. Thad frequent.
ly been called upon to believe things that
would make the ordinary rooster quail.
IL she discovered the true inwardness of
this Anglo-American ''Jewdespfit," she
refrained from saying anything about it.
II read good DEAL" she continued
sand it keeps me all strung up. weep, o
so easily just then she lightly laid her
hand on my arm and could see that the
tears were rising to her eyes. | felt like
asking her if she had ever tried running
herself through clothes-wrnger every
morning. did feel that some one ought to
chirlz her up, so asked her if she remem-
bered the advice of the editor who received
letter from young lady troubled the
same way She stated that she couldn't ex-
plain it, but every little while, without any
apparent cause, she would shed tears, and
the editor asked her why she didn't lock up
the shed. - a
We conversSd for long time about lit
erature, but every little while she would
get me into deep water by quoting some
author or work that / had never read. I
never realized what hopeless ignoramus /
was till heard about the scores of books
that had made her shed the scaldng tears,
and yet that / had never, never read. When
she looked at me with that far.away eX-
preston in her eyes, ana with her hand
resting lightly on my arm in such a way as
to give the gorgeous two-karat Rhinestone
from Pittsburgh full play, and told me
how such works as ",rhe New Made Grave;
or, The Twin Murderers" had cost her
many ard many a copious tear, / told her
was glad of it. Ii it be a blessed boon f0