Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-02
= NEW INFANT INDUSTRY.
A hoy Who PRO, ides an Umbrella In an
Emergency Tor Consideration.

boy who Provides an Umbrella In an
Emergency Tor Consideration.
One evening last week when q
shower came up Unexpectedly,
small boy. armed with huge um.
brella several sizes larger than him.
self, stood at tlr foot of the stairway
Of the Sixth avenue elevated station
at One Hundred and Sixteenth street.
Here yer are. gents and ladies.
he cried. waving his umbrella invit-
ingly. as the passengers began 10 de \
scend and look about them for some 1
means of getting home
Twenty five cents to take yer /
home. ladies II vets yer dresses .
gets no pay. see:
The men stared nj him and in
most cases turned their collars up
and passed ON But with the women
il was different They stared at him
also hut while their eyes were tax
ing in the small hoy their brains
+ were weighing their gowns and their
new bonnets in the balance with the
/ small boys fee The result was
! practically a furegone conclusion.
During the hour and half that the
storm lasted the youngster actually
made s2.71 All Of his patrons were
women with one exception-an 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
/ tinancier consented to talk.
II was 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 il at all
Did yer see the fat old woman, the
one wild the parrot on her hati Oh,
she's a corkcr, she is There ain
r been rain in the last six months
. nut what shes -at caught in it.
She's mighty sweet ON me now, but
she didn't use To be did her up
once Shes scared of me
! How did you manage it he was
asked
We'll, yer see last year when |
! first went into the biz the old woman
used To kick She said was extor.
tioning Of her Once she gave me
/ the shake at the door and wouldn I
I cough up the price. After that she
threw me ten cent piece out Of the
winder But let il lie there. for
me blood was up.
The next week | seen her start
down town one day dressed up daisy.
| knew there was rain a comm on, 50
waited In about three hours it be.
) gan to rain lickity cut The old WON
!. an came home right i'll the middle
| of it. | was standing there wild ms
I umbrella.
Soon us 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 mo too Little
boy. she SAID she always calls me
, little boy explained the youngster
, with panied expression Little
, 10y. she says, ] want you to take
me home today Please he very
careful of my new bonnet
,, Yes. ma am, says. and We
) started Soon as we started | says
I 10 her. says |. Where's me quarter
{ for the other day She pretended
E she didn't catch on But | was on tC
, her, you bet Give me me quarter
r now, says If you don't I'll sneak
n Il pulled the umbrella off her n bit
e The old woman began 10 scream
! You little wretch says she, Id boz
= the ears of you if it wasn't raining.
Then when she seen wasn't goin n,
further she pulled her purse ont anc
+ gave me fifty cents for the two trips
!. Now she and me always travel or
: the dead level She amt a bad ole
!. bloke" he added considerably, Ill
I you only knows how to treat her.
! Men ain I no good. he continued,
1 in answer to u question US To which
; sex he preferred rs customers
They always wants to hold the um
brellas. Once feller tried to run
e away wild it, But | was on to him
e Sometimes women wants to carry il
: too. only let's them, though, when
{ they're very tall But I'm gettin an
a umbrella made now as will stop al
a their monkey business. Its goin tc
I have handle rs slips up and down
Seel Its going to fit ladies of every
size New York Evening Sun.
! A Lifetime Of Pnnishment.