Smyrna times., 1888-02-15
How She Routed The Washer,

AN AMUSING STREET CAR INCIDENT
THE PRETTY GIRL AND HER
DEEP REVENGE.
There were only six persons in a
street car that was rattling lazily along
uptown the other afternoon. One of
them was a lady of pleasing appear
ance. She was calculated to attract
attention from her neat little bonnet,
with it's aigrets nOdding wantonly
among the olive MORE ribbons, down
to the little kid-encased feet resting
lightly on the wooden mating. The |
effect Of her dress and its several |
fashionable attachments was iridescent |
and dazzling. 70 add to this she had |
a pretty face. Her black eyes, though |
well-behaved, had no timidity in their |
glances, and helped to make up the daz-
cling entirety.
The car stopped and "a man got on.
Robust, we'll dressed, well jeN eled al d |
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 he 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 prepare
tory attitude so often noticed in mash
ers, so that if the girl should rest on
him for a moment the lips could Jump
quickly into a smile of an interrogatory
nature. The girls black eyes, in their
prances from this object to that, lit on
the mans face once OF twice, only to
dart Indignantly away. But he kept
looking, and she was evidently aware
of it.
Suddenly she shifted her position a
bit, SO as to squarely confront him, and
bending forward slightly, began gazing
at his feet. 1t was a curious, almost
mystified look that took possession of
her pretty face. The man looked
startled, bent forward and looked at
his feet, which were all that we'll
dressed man could ask for in appear
ance. He looked at the girl again.
She was still manifesting curious in
terest in his shoes. She even shifted
her dainty form again and looked
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drew them in a bit. Still she looked.
Again the man himself looked at them,
and then, while she seemed more puz-
Zled than ever over them, he looked
absolutely puzzled over her. He was
evidently getting uncomfortable, and
his lips lost that peculiar preparatory
attitude, and were in no danger of
breaking into a smile. He drew his
feet in still more, showed them out, and
looked at them, while she showed
symptoms of terror; then he drew
them back till his heels were plump
against the woodwork under the seat.
At this impressive moment that
American trait whereby when person
stops and looks, too, although there is
nothing in particular to see, began to
make it still further uncomfortable for
the masher. An elderly lady who sat
a little distance from the man, and
who noticed how mystifed the dazzling
young woman seemed to be over some
thing in the direction of the mans feet
adjusted her glasses and looked, too.
She of course saw nothing but the
highly polished shoes, but the man got
very uneasy, and drew his feet under
sideways as far as he could, while he
tried to look calmly out of the window.
The lady at the end of the car, seeing
: her neighbOrs puzzled over something,
, bent way forward and looked sidelong
at the mans feet. He drew them clear
in till they rested awkwardly on the
j toes. The iridescent young lady was
) gazing at them as hard as ever.
t The car stopped and another young
lady of fashion got in. She knew the
. iridescent young lady, and the latter
r whispered something in her ear, and
both began looking hard, very hard al
the man't feet.
1t was more than he could stand
> He got up and stepped quickly anG
= awkwardly Off the car. The girls
g looked at each other and smiled.
: The woman nearly opposite leaned
' forward and asked in an undertone
# Say, what was the matter"
\ 20, nothing" said the iridescent CIR
: with charming frankness. The BIZ
a goose tried to firt with me and 1 sim
9 ply got him out of the way by looking
q at his feet This will always max
D, them get out of the way. No man cal
e stand it. / don't sit still and let mel
!. keep gazing impudently and insulting
Il at me. No girl need to. Just look a
< their feet. They'll CO."
q AS soon as the prosperous LOOKING
" masher got off the car he climbed int
e a bootblacks chair. The bootblac
It looked surprised, for the shoes wer
d already highly polished.
y DO you see anything the matte
Is with them ?" asked the man.
II No, boss, nothing the matter"
y "Well here's ten cents for you
ie opinion, and he walked off, askin
himself what that damned pretty gil
was looking at.-N. Y. Sun.