Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-27
DAMAGED a DANDY.
A PIucky Chicago Girl Breaks HeI
Parasol over n Washers Head.


A PIucky Chicago Girl Breaks Her
Parasol over n Washers Head.
A nine.dolar-a-week dude. OF grape
vine build and gentle. calf-like ways.
wrought to pitch of frightened frenzy
extinguished as IT were. by an ironed-
over hat driven down to his sloping
shoulders. madly trying to escape q
rain of sharp blows from heavy par a.
sol in the hands of a muscular. pretty
and plucky girl of the period. was. ac-
cording to the Chicago Mail, the CEN
ter of attraction in front Of the Column
Theater about seven o clock the
other evening.
People laughed. guyed and laughed
again at the unusual and ridiculous
spectacle. and cheered the plucky girl
without knowing why. The animated
panorama didn't last long. but 1t was
very exciting while it lasted, and when.
at the conclusion of the affair, flush
ed, sparkled-eyed miss, holding a
broken parasol, slightly excited but
triumphant made the sickly. looking
caricature of man hand out weeks
salary to pay for her broken sun shade
the climax was reached, and tho crowd
was enthusiastic.
The dude was to all appearances one
of those innocuous and weak mental
feather wei hts. harmless because of
his lack of mind or physical strength.
but as vile and corrupt rs man of his
stamp can be. He was carefully dress
cd in rs close an imitation of the most
outer mode as can be procured by
careful purchasing at the 'cheap but
nasty" stores. He looked fairly we'll
under artificial light however. and was
standing in a carefully studied neglige
pose in front of the theater. showing
himself and his clothes, and weakly
ogling the passing ladies. The pretty
girl with the parasol passed with a
pretty companion, and the dudelet
chirped in ''caash 49, voice the hail
ing sign of his order.
"Ah, theahr
The girls 'ah'e ed" That is, they
nudged each other. glanced up and
smiled. Accepting the smile and &C.
comparing symptoms favora bly, the
flop came off his perch and offered his
arm to one of the girls, raising his
fall-style tile from his little yeasty
head rs he did so.
IL hn ho1 h.tf
the next moment he was caught
on" the head with swipe from
the umbrella, directed after the regular
''six-love' lawn-tennes style. The hat
joined his collar and behelmeted and
blinded him. The exquisite grasped
wildly at the sand-fy thickened at
mosphere. and yelled in frightened
tones: "Ajd. aid. assistance!' Again
and again the parasol cracked across
the tile, which sounded like n used-up
concertina, until the slender stick
broke. and weaponless the fair assail
ant stood confronting the damaged
masher.
THAT parasol cost me eight dollars.
I expect you to make it good" said
she, CURLY, and the befuddled "Cholly."
rescued from his hat. was so ratified
that he handed out ten dollar note
pensively. wildly and gladly. The girl
handed the bill to policeman. who
got it changed, contemptuously tossed
two silver dollars to the mussed.up
masher and walked away as saucily,
cody and modestly as one could wish.
The crowd surged little and the dam
aged dude escaped in neiehboring sa-
loon. where private stalls are to be
found, and tried to arrange his ward
robe before any body else saw him.