The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-09-26
AS 1 WAS SAYING.

Some OF us are getting so very English
~ dOesn Z seem rs il Ne could possibly 10
| much further In that direction. ] remem-
| Der the first time | went abroad one of the
| things that struck me as particularly
/ strange was the sight Of women on the
! streets Of London in August dressed in
/ white muslin frOcks but with sealskin
| cape5 about their shoulders. This is Sep
| tember certainly, but n London August
can't compare with the heat we had yes
| terday; yet ! saw on Weybosset street a
| girl in blue and white lawn, with a long
| haired fur wrap fastened across her boz
! som. ] can't imagine how she escaped
/ heat prostration. Possibly the conscious
ness of being in the fore front of fashion
Kept her comfortable.
The NEWS is the talk of the town, and
| yet have 10 make a humiliating confes-
| sion. Yesterday afternoon, just at the
! hour when the gold hunters were crying
! the NEWS from end TO end of the town, an
! elderly gentleman, slightly deaf dropped
IN at the publication Office and casually
inquired: Have you run your press YETI
"Oh, yes, said j, thinking he referred TO
the days edition, then about finished.
" Have you printed a paper!'
Certainly" and | handed him one,
wondering more and more.
lie glanced at the sheet, noticed the
Vol. !: No. 5,' and asked: Have you
! printed four alreadygp
| assured him that we had showed him
| the copies; and then he told me that his
/ Office was just across the street! And
there he had sat in full view of the ponder
/ Gus machinery and rolls of paper and
| desks as they arrived, of the reporters en-
| tering and leaving, of the messengers
| hurrying with telegrams, of the thronging
| newsboys with their bundles, and had
| known nothing of il ALI i like "A joke
even at the expense Of my own paper.
|
| A group Of visitors returning from the
| fair passed down Westminster street yes
| terday. As they went by the end of the
| narrow passage In front of the Hotel Dor
rance they looked down at the group of
guests comfortably seated in the arm
! chairs out in front and one inquired:
Whats going on down thereg"
Some sort OF caucus, guess" respond
ed another with knOwit-all air.
Newsboy on the street walking up to
two dignified citizens: NEWS, siry'
No, no; get away" says man No. /,
only Republican paper in the city,
sir"
Both dignifed citizens smile and buy
the NE rs.
"Do you want me to leave the upper
lipl" asked one of the BARRIERS in the
DoTance Hotel barber shop the other day
of his patient.
Leave the upper lip! Why, Of course
do, replied the man who was getting
shaved. " DO you think want TO be yivi-
| sected"
a friend Of mine was telling me about
visit he paid to the peach growing section
in Maryland this summer, and how il did
not pay in many instances this season TO
] - T.. 81. II. 81.
the trouble was not so much an over
abundance, rs il was high rates of trans
! portatiOn In fact, said he, only taking
! this case as an example, there are many
| people, myself included, who have begun
! to think that many of our social difficult
! ties could be settled if we could come to-
! gether as sensible men do in lesser matters
and make some arrangement that would
| overcome this friction The progress of
! civilization in fact consists only in the in
creased application Of such social agree
ments and adjustments.
You find some funny things i'm theatrical
! life There is "A couple playing at one of
| the local theatres this week TO whom there
| is little story attached. They are man
and wife and on the stage are the jolliest,
! happy-golucky couple imaginable; but
| the only occasion on which they speak is
| during their "actn Off the stage they
are strangers and always stop at separate
/ hotels They haven't spoken to or recog-
nized each other off the stage for over ten
! years.
a young man OF my acquaintance is
/ engaged i'm a business which is liable to
! keep him up AZ all hours of the night. His
! wife was so lonesome waiting for his un-
! certain arrival chat she begged him TO get
! her position with him where she could
/ enjoy more of his society For the first
| three days his work was such that he
could 20 home early in the evening with
| his wife but the fourth day business kept
| him up until am, and his wife would
not consent 20 20 home until he did. That
was sufficient for her. The next day she
was too tired TO 20 20 work. That was
/ three weeks ago and she hasn't been back
| 10 work since She never complains about
/ his late hours now.