Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18

On Long Branch boat witnessed an
incident which, il a woman should put il
into novel. would be pronounced an alb
surd bit of impossible invention. On trips
in pleasant weather these vessels are over
crowded by passengers going to and from
the Jersey summer resorts. On this occa-
sion there were no chairs for those who
boarded the boat last, and among these was
a Wall street man and his wife. There was
good reason for gallantry on his part, be.
cause he was 80 years old and she was no
more than 25. OF course he was rich, and
she had married him for his money; but for
| all that, hold it to be a condescension in
| girl to marry a man twice her own age, no
matter how immense the pecuniary gain
may be.
Therefore say that this half centenarian
should never fail in polite Difference to his
quarter centenarian wife. Now. this is what
he did when he found that seats could not
| be obtained. He stood his wife against the
| deck rail, and recommended her to enjoy
the scenery of the harbor while he went to
the barbershop tc get shaved. For a full
hour, or during almost the whole sail from
Sandy Hook to the Battery, she was left
alone, and she stood during the whole time
Just before the steamboat made fast at her
city wharf he rejoined her, clean shaven and
refreshed, while she looked tired and fret
full.
As to what he had done during his absence
1 have the testimony of an unimpeachable
witness. He went to the barbershop, as he
had said he would, and at once got seat in
a chair. If reclining in a barber couch is
as comfortable as it looks-and of course
left out of the estimate all the possibilities
of torture by the razor-it is surely restful
experience, and this man should have
thanked his luck for getting SO luxurious a
foF.t ha n 4 Of
shave. But when he got through he looked
at his watch and found that the operation
had occupied precisely II minutes, and the
charge would be % cents.
A GOOD SEAT.
SIS there anybody waiting?" he asked of
the boss barber.
what you want"
"That is exactly the idea. I will paw
dollar and a quarter, or the price of five
12-minute shaveS, just to remain in the
chair"
The bargain was struck, the money was
paid, and the old fraud lay there in the
chair until he felt the engine slowing up on
approaching the wharf. Then he hastened
to mis- wife and told her that he had been
compelled to wait all that while for his turn
enough for a divorce.
One after another the occupations deemed
exclusive to men are opened to women, yet
was surprised to find a woman engaged as
a bouncer. / believe that is what the
enforcer Of order in a barroom or other mas
culine resorts is called. Ex-prize fighters
are commonly hired ior this duty, so 1 have
read, and a gentleman tells me that in some
cases fraud is practiced. That is to say,
man of big physique and determined visage,
but really possessed of no muscle or skill to
fit him for actual encounters, poses as an
athlete capable of throwing a whole party
of roysterers into the street, while, for a
fact, he might be knocked out by the small
est one of them. But this letter is devoted
to femininity, and 1 set out to tell of a
restaurant in Grand street where
WOMAN Is ON GUARD.
The place is a cheap dining room in the
immediate neighborhood of several large
stores and factories in which girls are en-
ployed, and they go to this establishment in
droves for their MONDAY luncheon. 1t is a
commodious house, and three of its stories
are fitted up with chairs and tables. As
many as 300 or 400 lunchers may be seated
at once. Now some of the tobacco workers
and other factory girls are very lively in
disposition, and after the restraint of sew
CEdA hOuIo WIN, dIC opOocu 10 make |
the noon hour time for jollity that often |
becomes boisterous.
The proprietor of the restaurant was put |
to his wits end how to deal with the disor- |
der. He hired man bouncer, but the girls |
were not afraid OF him, and rightly believed |
that he wouldn't hurt them. And when on |
several rare occasions he did eject mis-
chiefmaker, she would invariably have him |
arrested on the charge of assault. Out of |
this dilemma the caterer himself found a
way BY placing q woman on patrol duty
through his dining halls. She Is q six
footer, well proportioned, too, and with the
general aspect of an imperious Juno. 1
presume she is the first feminine bouncer in
New York or anywhere else.
She has been on duty about a week, and
thus far the girls are in awe of her. The
same ones who were incorrigible before, and
who presumed boldly upon the fact that
man hesitates to lay his hand upon a woman
except in the way of kindness, seem to have
no shadow Of doubt that the new bouncer
would actually bounce them if occasion de-
manded it. Thus far she has only had to
walk about. at full heIght, and with a Sc
we're countenance. She is regarded as a
success. CLARA BELLE.
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