The southern argus., 1891-10-15
LOOKING AT PEOPLE.
what one Woman Saw on Her Way Down
Town.


what one Woman Saw on Her Way Down
Town.
saw a great many things on my way
down town the other day. l saw
drunken father under convoy OF his Ut
tie daughter. He sat in the car with ms
head dropped in maudlin sleep upon the
shoulder of his child, while, with bushes
that came and went across her face Ike
shadows on the slope of hill, she
quietly sat and bravely bore the bur-
dan of her childish shame. l saw
Young hoodlum lash his horse because
his own awkwardness came near col
liding his cab with cable car. L saw
a policeman spring to the rescue OF an
old woman who stumbled on the street
crossing, and / saw him bruised and
trampled in the discharge of duty
/ saw a pretty girl reach up with her
daintily-gloved hand to undo the check
rein of tortured horse. | saw beat
en- dog turn and fawn beneath his mas
ter's brutal anger, and thought to my
self. where is more fond and forgiving
friendship found? saw little golden
headed boy at the window OF mouse
as passed by, and when waved my
hand he kissed his in return.
saw a tired mother stoop to caress
the child who fdgeted at her knee IN
the depot waiting-room. and l saw an
other viciously slap her baby because ii
sought to fondle her cheeks with Its
sticky fingers. / saw a little girl get
mn without suggestion from her mother
in tho crowded car
to an older person. l saw famed ana
diving bird brought down by small
boys slingshot.
saw hard faced, labor-grimed man
step out of his way to protect a LOST
dog from band of young street arabs
I saw eleven out of fifteen girls met
with laced waists and powdered faces
| saw a small boy furiously beating his
mother with his fists because she sough,
| to carry him over a crowded and dan
gerous crossing. and So | thought, we
treat the tender providence that some
times seeks to lift us against our viii
from evil ways.
| / saw a little coffin in an undertaken
window, waiting empty-ah, for whom
What cardle bed keeps tonight the
precious head destined so soon to sleep
upon that satin pillow? l saw crOwC
of prominent politicians come out of {
LIQUOR saloon, and | saw a dead swine
hanging near by on butchers sham
BILE. l said to myself, which OF the two
the man or the defunct pig, is the mos
truly dead, if life counts anything TO
bravery, purity, chivalry and the ability
to command respect? If we must have
porcine qualities, either in two-legget
or four-legged types, let us have then
inactive in death.
l saw a nurse girl wheeling a bab7
backward in a perambulator, the SUI
meanwhile darting beneath its tendeI
eyelids. l saw number of we'll
dressed men spit on the depot stair
way, and I wanted to throw stones a
them. / saw homely girl TRANSFORMED
into a beauty by simple service &C
corded to a stranger. | saw woman
lean out of a public conveyance t.
laugh at and deride another who wor
shabby clothes and old boots.
I saw half million Tor less) of hu
man faces, with only one here an
there that was clean and sweet an
true | saw Chicago astir with tn
clash and turmoil of it's sordid gree
for grain.
J / saw great many other things; br
how does the balance strike already
Amber, in Chicago Herald.