The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-06-23
A NEW INFANT INDUSTRY.


Emergency for Consideration.
One evening last week when a
shower came up Unexpectedly,
small boy, armed with a huge UNI
preiia several sizes larger than him
sell, stood at the foot of the stairway
OF the Sixth avenue elevated station
at One Hundred and Sixteenth street
Here yer are, gents and ladies"
ne cried, waving his umbrella invit-
mgly, as the passengers began to de-
scend and look about them for some
means of getting home.
twenty-five cents to take yer
nome, ladies. If vets yer dresses /
gets no pay, see?"
The men stared at him and in
most cases turned their collars mn
and passed on. But with the women
1t was different. They stared at him
also, but while their eyes were TAX
ing IN the small boy their brains
were weighing their gowns and their
new bonnets III the balance with the
small boys fee. The result was
practically a foregone conclusion.
During the hour and a half that the
storm lasted the youngster actually
made $2.75. All of his patrons were
women with one exception-an old,
man almost bent double with rheu
matism.
After the storm had cleared and
the small boy and his umbrella were
resting from their labors at the boot
black stand at the corner, the young
hnancier consented to talk.
1T was q pretty good night, this
was" he remarked, as he slowed
away his net proceeds in the one
pocket which his trousers possessed.
1t came up nicely, that rain did.
None OF the women got on to it at ALL
Did yer see the fat old woman, the
one wild the parrot on her hat? Oh,
she's a corker, she is. There amt
been rain in the last six months
but what she's got caught in it,
She's mighty sweet on me now, but
she didn't use to be. | did her I'D
once. She's scared of me"
How did you manage it1" he was
asked.
We'll, yer see, last year when l
first went into the biz the old woman
used to kick. She said I was extor-
tlonlng of her. Once she gave me
the shake at the door and wouldn't
cough up the price, After that she
threw me ten cent piece out of the
winder But l let it lie there, for
me blood was up.
The next week I seen her start
down town one day dressed up daisy.
knew there was rain a-comin on, so
WAITED. In about three hours it be-
gan to rain lickity cut. The old wom-
an came home right in the middle
OF. 1t. Twas standing there wild me
umbrella
Soon as she came down the steps
smiled at her, same as if nothing
was wrong between us. The old
woman looked kind of ashamed like,
but she smiled at me too. Little
boy, she said-she always calls'me
little boy''-explained the youngster,
with panied expression. ''Little
boy, she says, I want you to take
me home today. Please be very
careful of my new bonnet
Eyes, ma'am,' l says, and we
started, Soon as we started l SAYS
to her, says l, Where's me quarter
for the other dayT She pretended
she didn't catch on. But I was on to
her, you bet. Give me me quarter
now, Isays, IF youd don't I'll sneak.
'Ipulled the umbrella off her bit.
The old woman began to scream.
You little wretch, says she, I'd box
the ears off you if it wasn't raining.
Then when she seen wasn't goin no
further she pulled her purse out and
gave me fifty cents for the two trips.
Now she and me always travel on
the dead level She amt a bad old
bloke," he added considerably, IF
you only knows how to treat her.
Men amt no good,"he continued,
in answer to a question as to which
sex he preferred as customers.
They always wants to hold the UNI
brellas. Once a teller tried to run
away wild it. But was on to him.
Sometimes women wants to carry it
too. Ionly lets them, though, when
they're very tall But I'm gettin an
umbrella made now as will stop all
their monkey business It's goin to
have handle as slips up and down.
See? It's going to fit ladies of every
size. New York Evening Sun
A Lifetime Of Punishment