The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-28

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labor, and never smokes anything cheaper
than straight 20-cent cigars, glanced at me
a moment, then turned and looked out of
the window and gnawed his bristling dark
brown mustache. He did not rise, and
really didn't blame him.
"Ticketm exclaimed the conductor, hold
ing out his hand.
For the next two or three minutes the
pitying angels looked down on distressed,
anxious person in female attire making ner-
vous frantic jabs at pocket located some
where in the folds of the outer garment.
The Implying passengers also looked at that
distressed, anxious person.
IL ii sometimes puzzles a woman to find
the pocket in her dress, what can a man
masquerading as a woman do when called
upon suddenly and unexpectedly to produce
ticket hidden in such pocket.
NY brow was bathed in preparation. |
reached mechanically for the handkerchief
| was accustomed to carry in my hip pocket.
IL wasn't there.
Neither was the hip pocket
Over the misery Of that moment suffer
me to draw q veil more dense and Opaque
than the fleecy gauze that covered my face.
The ticket was found at last, end the con-
ductor passed on into the next car. So did
L, in the hope that the atmosphere would be
cooler.
up and offered mo his seat
| thanked him profusely, sat down, and
the next moment heard him explaining to
the men in the seat behind me that he
wished he wasn't so blamed near sighted
1t was always causing him to mako a dog
COINED chump Of himself
Presently the man sitting next to me got
up, and went to the other end OF the car
and sat on the coal box. The seat remained
| III e - 81 10,
| gers came ald looked at It, then glanced at
| me, pulled down the corners of their
! mouths and passed on. On reaching the
station in the city | forgot myself again,
| hailed a passing street car with shrill
whistle, ran after it with long strides, and
clambered into it. TIE only person who
rose at my entrance was a Mortified young
woman She got off the car at the other
end tho moment I went in.
The passengers looked at me as il / were
a museum freak or an escaped lunatic, and
| got off at the next crossing. A policeman
| started TO assist me to the walk, thought
| better OF it, coughed to another policeman
hundred yards off, and whistled, "W here
Did You Get That HAITI"
| Nothing but the consciousness Of a right
eous purpose sustained me as ! got aboard
the next car and was openly sneered at by
| two healthy but irreverent young women
with much politeness by a newsboy with 6
frescoed face. rode two or three blocks
and then got off again. had behaved with
the utmost circumspection, but the con
ductor had winked at me.
l took a car bound for the North side, anC
| chung TO the strap till we came near the en-
trance Of the La Sale street tunnel, wher
the young man nearest me happened to lool
up, rose hastily, offered me his seat anc
| hurried to tue other end of the car, as Il
moved by some sudden. vague forebodiug Of
impending calamity. 1t would do no good
to relate in detail the experiences of thai
unhappy day.
spent several hours and over 81 in trave
in crowded cars through the city, and never
once did have the opportunity Of return
ing thanks to anybody, who offered me
seat out of politeness. / was stared at, fieC
from, permitted to occupy the whole side o
a car, hustled about, stopped by policemen
when undertook to cross a street. pointet
at by bootblacks, and one reporter for al
afternoon paper begged pardon, but wantet
to know if ne wasn't addressing Mrs. Lease
the famous stateswoman OF Kansas. Con
found his impudence!
On the way home that afternoon | wa
dimly conscious Of being pointed out by tn
conductor Of the suburban train in a lou
whisper as "a gallus old girl from Jaytown
that had "blown in 'smorning" to bu
milliner goods, he rsckoned
When / reached home / sat down an
communed with myself. Net result Of th
expedition: had failed 10 demonstrats M