Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12
FEMININE vA0ARiES.
IN Impatient Young Lady and -
Ohstt,ste Old 8aggsge-Master.

FEMININE vA0AhiES.
n, Ym,.stent Young Lady and n
Obstinate Old BaEgsge-Msster.
There are perhaps few places where
one may more easily study human
nature in variety of phases than at
the railway stations, and there is per-
haps no branch of human experience
in which the ethereal vagaries of the
feminine mind are more fully displayed
than in the ingenuity shown in the in
vention of mistakes and wrong-headed-
ness at the stations. l was recently
the involuntary listener to con-
traversy between an exceedingly irate
young woman and baggage-master,
which may serve to illustrate what
mean. The young woman wished to
claim a trunk which she said belonged
to her, but the check for which had
been thoughtlessly left in hand bag
which friend had taken down town
shopping. The young woman, who
was pretty, vivacious and OF remark
ably intelligent expression, explained
to the baggage-master, and incidentally
to Il lire of waiting people, half of
whom were in danger of paying for
the pleasure of hearing her artless tale
by losing their respective trains, that
she had come to town for wedding.
shat she had had a gown manufactured
especially for the occasion. and that
the gown was in the trunk in question.
'Of course" she explained, lucidly,
sit isn't as if didn't want the dress to
wear to-day, and then l have the
check. you know; so it's all right"
'.If you have the check it is all
right the baggage master replied.
with some appearance. sufficiently y un-
gallant, of considering that the con-
versation had continued as long as he
had right to monopolize the pretty
young lady's attention; "but l can
give up trunks to anybody that asks
for them. You haven't anybody to
identify, you and you haven't any
check"
''Oh, but Lucy has the check" she
interposed, dimpling and smiling.
'''and I'll send it to you tomorrow. l
said I'd send it down in the morning.
and can't do any b tier than that, for
i shan't see Lucy till after breakfast.
before three o'clock"
Her interlocutor took a check over
her shoulder from hackman. and the
vivacious lady explained all the cir
cumstances to . strange but sympa-
thetic old lady who had eibowed her
way UP to the window, so that when
the unfortunate official came up again
there were two women to tell him the
facts in the case, and to explain to him
that the gown had really been made
to wear this afternoon. and It was after
swelve already. and that if Lucy hadn't
gone off in such hurry the owner of
the trunk. would. of course, have re-
membered the check, and that the i'm
portant bit OF metal should be sent
down in the morning.
''And know the number" the viva
scious young damsel added upon Sec
pond thought, as clinching argument,
'''or at least l know it began with a
seven and there were three numbers"
l feel positive that the baggage-mas-
ter would have yielded in time. No
man could have endured such siege
long, especially as the young woman,
reinforced by the sympathetic old one,
pretty etiectually blocked the window
and stopped the entire business of the
department of inner baggage at a busy
time of day. Unfortunately for all con-
cerned, however, at this stage of the
controversy a Hurried and disheveled
young lady appeared Oh the scene, and
tnade her way through the crowd as
only young woman or fire engine
can
'rOh, Florence she gasped, thrust
ing forward the missing check, 81 got
clear up to Winter street before found
it, and l took herdic and came tear
ing back, and knew what an awful
fix you d be in, and if you hadn't got
your dress I'd never have forgiven my
self"
She stopped from sheer want of
breath, and her friend fell upon her
with incoherent but satisfactory express
sions of rapture; while the sympathetic
old lady glared through her wide spec
tacles at the offending baggage-mas-
ter, to remind him that he was taken,
as it were, red-handed in crime
against all that was highest in rights,
and remarked with biting emphasis:
There. now, l hope you are salts
fed, after all the fuss you have made
and The time you have kept all these
folks waiting"
Personally l felt that a collection
ought to be taken up for the much
abused baggage-maSter, but he had so
Strong an air of being perfectly used to
this sort of thing that concluded upon
the whole that it was hardly necessary
to press the point.-Cor. Proctdsace
Journal.