Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-03
A CHEAP HEROINE.
How Women GO Into ConDiptions
About Nothing.
From the Chicago Ne,cs.


About Nothing.
From the Chicago Nelcs.
1t doesn't take much to make heroine
in these days. saw one made the other
morning. AT one of the suburban stations
| four ladies came bustling into the ar call
hurry and chatter, evidently dreadfully
excited over something. They looked
through the windows and talked as fast as
! their tongues could wag, and by the broken
/ parts of sentences that could be distin-
gUished in the general Jaugle Of tongues
/ Judged some body who had intended 10
come to the city with them was likely to
! be left.
''Oh, my, She"
/ t'Dreadtul, isn't"
go without"
s.NO. nor II
And so went the jangle until one said,
1 jOyously;
''Here she comes, j." and looked out and
saw a carriage whirling around the cor
ner Of the depot.
! But just then the train started.
''Oh, my" etc, ETC., and the angle
was renewed. In il one could distinguish
such words as "Tell the CONDUCTOR
Wont they stop" They must wait for
her,0 and the like, and the four ladies'
rushed UP and down the aisle without any
apparent purpose more than to show
that they were 50 much excited that they
didnh Know what they wanted or why
they Nantedit.
The brakeman stood on the rear plat
form, and the lady who bad jumped iron
her carriage came sailing toward him,
waving both haads and shouting AT the top
of her voice:
"stop the train! Stop the trainY'
"Wait moment, lady" said the brake.
man, with the exaspsratiug calmness Of
a man who knows his business aud who
has already pulled The bell-cord.
In an instant the train gave a little Jerk
and came 10 almost = dead halt-not
! quite, bat alm0st--and the brakeman
gracefully stepped down and handed the
lady up on the car-plattorm as il nothing
/ had happened.
What was goingO on the rear platform
was not known by the four ladies inside.
| Indeed, don't think they knew much Of
anything, they were IN such a state of ex-
element. But presently they saw their
! friend, the fifth lady, enter the rear door,
and they tell upon her as II she had come
back from the grave. She, on her part,
made no effort TO conceal the fact that
she had done very remarkable and heroic
/ thing In getting on a traIu that was actual-
/ ~ moving. She leaned her head against the
/ window casing and put her mana to her
heart.
"a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., " she managed
| 20 say.
There was hurry and a scufle, and a
| cup Of water was brought, one lady mean
while taking the opportunity 70 ceusure
me for not being as excited as | should
nave been, by saying:
"She got on after the train started"
IL ! hadn't known that the train was
| moving slower than the pace OF "A snail
might have gathered from this lady's
| manner that II was rushing by at the rate
| oil 10 miles an hour when the heroine
swung herself upon It.
"lsn't she braveY said another lady,
and the speech was intended TO reach the
/ ears OF all the passengers.
Extraordinarily stammered the he.
rOine, with visible effort 10 show that 10
was the most fortunate thing In tho world
that ~ was not all wrong.
In 20 minutes The train ran in AZ the
Union depot, and as the nvo ladies LETT the
car the four lowered about the One.-the
One-and when lost track OF them ia the
crowd they were still trying their best TO
make her understand what a real heroine
she had been; and doubt not by this time
they have told the story OF her adventure
hundreds OF times. and innOcently added
revolution or two each time 90 the speed
OF the train, until IN her circle sue ~
known as woman who wouldn't conde-
scend 70 ask fast express 10 stop TO let
| her on.