Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-02-09
How SHE RoUTEDTHF MASTER.

venGe.
There were only six persons in
street car that was rafting lazily along
uptown the other afternoon. One of
them was Il lady of pleasing appear
ance She was calculated to attract at
tention from her neat little bonnet.
with ia agrets nodding wantonly
among the olive MORE ribbons, down
TO the littlo kid-encased feet resting
lightly on the wooden mating The
effect of her dress and its several fash
ionable attachments was iridescent and
dazzling. To add to this she had
pretty face. Her black eyes. though
well behaved, had no timidity in the L
glances, and helped TO make up the
dazzling entirety.
The car stopped and Il man got on.
Robust, well dressed, well jeweled and
well along in life was he. He looked a
prosperous merchant a club man, zone
of the boys'-and he looked at the
girl. And lie kept on looking. He
was evidently one of those valuable in
dividuals who had done the same thing
before, though not at the same girl.
His lips got into that peculiar propara-
tory attitude so often noticed in mash
ers, so that if the girl shonld rest on HIM
for moment the lips could jump quick
~ into smile of an nterrogatOry ma
ture. The rps black eyes, in their
Frances from this object to that, lit on
the mans face once or twice. only to
dart Indignantly away. Bat he kept
looking, aud she was evidently aware
of it.
Suddenly she shifted her position
n bit, so as to squarely confront him.
and bending forward slightly, began
gazing at his feet. 1t was Il curious.
almost myslilicd look tha' took posses
sion OF her pretty face. The man look
ed startled, bent forward and looked ut
his feet, which were all that we'll
dressed man could ask for in appear
ancc He looked ut the grl again She
was still manifesting cur Gus interest
i'm his shoes. She even shifted her
dainty form again and looked harder
still at his feet until the man drew
them in bit. Still she looked. Aga
the man himself looked ut them, and
while she seemed more puzzled than
ever over them. he looked absolutely
puzzled over her. He was evidently
getting uncomfortable. and his lips
lost that peculiar preparatory attitude,
AMI were in no danger of breaking into
Il smile. He drew his feet in still
more, showed them out. and looked nj
them, while she showed symptoms of
terror; then he drew them back till his
heels Were plump against the wood
work udder the seat.
At this Impressive moment that
! American trait whereby when per-
son Stops and looks at ANYTHING every
/ Que who notices the act stops and
| looks. too. although there is moth ne
| ia particular to see, began to make It
st IL further uncomfortable for the
maShcr. An elderly lady who sat n
| little distance from the man. aud who
noticed how mystilied the dazzling
! Young woman seemed to be over some
! thing i'm the direction of the mans feet,
! adjusted her glasses and looked. too.
! She of course saw nothing but the
! highly pol shed shoes, but the man got
very uneaS,, and drew his feet under
| sidcwa, rs far as he could, VIII Ic he
! tr I'd to look calmly out of the window.
! The lad at the end of the car, seeing
her ncighbors puzzled over something,
! bent forward and looked sidelOng ut
the mans feet. He drew them clear
| in until they rested awkardly on
| the toes. The irideSrcnt Scung lady
was gaz no at them as hard us ever.
! Tho car stopped and another Young
! lad, Of fashion got in. She knew the
| iridcscent Young lady, and the latter
whispered something in her ear, and
both began looking hard, very hard at
! the mans feet.
Ii was more than he could stand.
He got up and stepped quickly and
awbwardly of the car. The girls look
ed at each other aud smiled.
TIE woman nearly opposite leaned
forward and asked in an UNDERGONE:
"Say, what was the matter?'
30, nothing" said the iridescent
grl with charming frankness. "The
big goose tried To 1lirt with me and |
! simply rot him out of the way by look
ing mt his feet. That will ALWAYS make
them get out of the way. No man
can stand it. Idon't sit still and let
men keep gazing impudently and in
sultingly at me. No GIRL need to.
just look ut their feet. They'll go"
As soon rs the prosperous looking
masher got off the car he climbed into
boot-back's chair. The boot black
looked surprised, for the shoes were
already highly polished.
''Do you see anything the matter
with themP' asked the man.
mo, boss. nothing the matter"
"Well, here's 10 cents for your
OPINION" and he walked Of. asking
himself what that damned pretty girl
was looking at.-NeW York SIN.