The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18
AND THEN Il CAR STOPPED
1t Was at On Interesting Point in the
Conversation, and Noise Was Needed.
Unfortunate Incident That Embarrassed Two
Lovely Girls and Broke Upa
Dancing Club.

Again two lovely maidens have been the
cause of no end of trouble. and it all came
about because q street car stopped when it
should not have. or rather when it was not
expected to. The propellers of electric
chariots have worked many disasters. great
and small, and doubtless if the motorman
on n car on the College avenue
line had known. . few nights ago,
when he clsmped down his brake and
wrought o peaceful stiffness out of q whir-
ring, rumbling noise. what the consequences
would be. he would q crowded on all
electrioity and muttered TO himself: "Pu
let her 60 IL she burns out the universe"
A social dancing club has helped to
while away MANI long winter evenings to
o certain crowd of young people In the
nit Of the hiring of carriages, the presenta-
ton of flowers or delightfullittle luncheohs
when youth and pleasure have chased the
glowing hours with flying feet" until grey
dawn appears, but some Of Indianapolis
fsirest and her most brave are among it's
attendants. Fair fortune smiled. flushed
cheeks and sparkling eyes made mp for
flowers that not be purchased, and
all went merry as q Christmas carol until
the street-car stopped when it wasn't ex-
peotea that it would. Two young ladies'
the one tall. slender snd supple as u deer.
with o wealth of black hair, and great gray
eyes that stormed or smiled. or sarcasms
shot at their owners will, n the other
short. but round q dimpled, with the
face of q child, which lured zach observer to
it only to be dashed broken on the rock of
q woman's coqucttishness behind lt-heid
equal court in the realm of this dancing
club. and q flag of truce Tapped IDLY be-
tween each throne, and the courtiers of
pleased them. But the street car stopped
when it Was not expected to. and the flag
Of truce Is . torn rag. tramped into the
earth by the minions of each queen, and
there is troubls, trouble: trouble every
where. Tho life of 1.-The Oxford" hangs in
tho balance. and two dynastics bid fair to
become but matters of history. And the
stopping of . street car caused it.
That night THE Oxford" was to I've one
of its enjoyable "affairs." The men. doubt
club, repaired to the homes of their re-
spective objects of alteration to escort them
via horsecar, or via "shauk's old mare" 10
the dance.hAll. It CHANGED that. unbe-
friends and ~cronies, called the one at the
house of the one twin belle and the
other at the house of the other. The first
young man, and the first young belle, en-
tered an electric car toward the supper end
of tho avenue. 1t stopped to let them on,
but 10 was not the fatal stop. By the time
the car reach Christian avenue they had
run out of conversation suitable to a street
car. where everybody 10 liable to hear. and
were silent. The car stopped at the crossing
there, and the second young man and the
second young belle got on: but
that was not the fatal stop. 1t
so CHANGED that couples one and two
sat opposite each other with their knees
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| aisle. and they all bowed and expressed a
mutual delight in seeing each other. By
this time the car was whizzing on. and con-
versation across 1t was made impossible on
account of the noise. All were silent. On
the outside all was serene. but there Is no
man VINO knows tho workings of a woman's
mind, unless she tells him. and then she is
apt to make o mistake. Suddenly the first
young belle turned to her escort and
said somethine. When she began II the
over BelRium's stony streets. but when she
finished it had stopped, and the tones she
had adopted to make her escort hear rang
out with double distlnctness in the silence
sentence of a few words. but it mennt SC
much. The young man on the opposite
side of the car straightened himself mp and
compressed into his features all the haugh,
tiness of the son of an hundred emperors
and from his lips came the words Will
icicle. pointed inclsiveDess: Thank you"
The face of his companion flushed and
paled by turns. and IN her eyes came ths
glitter of q revenge that must be haG-s
glitter such as Deiilan must have had in
hers when she discovered Sampson aslcey
and proceeded to shear his hair. Nor wa
calm complaisance to be seen in the cam
across the way. The young man had rain
bow colors on his cheek, and the youn.
woman yelled rhoss great gray eyes behint
burning lids; yet all she had said was
what funny people some people take Il
The Oxford"
Now there are wars and rumors of wars
the right has turned against the left. an,
there is trouble, trouble. trouble every
where.