The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-06
THE OTHER HALF.
A Lesson From Real Life That Opened
Hearts and Purses.

Hearts and Purses
There had been gay party down the
river. When the train came to stand
still about one hundred and fifty young
people and the attendant chaperons
were waiting in the little station on
the club house grounds and making
things lively with their cheers for the
commodore, cheers for the pretty girls
and finally cheers and tiger for the
sstonished engineer.
Only one sad face among so many,
and that belonged to a woman young in
years, but thin and worn by days of IN
renting toll such as the others had
never dreamt Of She carried in her
arms bundle done up in a newspaper
A loosely tied slip shod package that
she handled with care. When the crowd
surged into the car she took her seat at
the extreme end in one of the places
that brought her right in the midst of
a group of particularly wild and gay
young jewellers. With anxious care she
held the package done up in its greasy
paper on her lap, and ever and anon
wiped away tear with a corner of the
torn wrap trimmed with its tawdry Jet
passementerie.
A lurch of the train threw one of the
young fellows who was sitting on the
arm of the seat almost into the precious
bundle. With a startled cry and a
voice made shrill by fear the woman
cried:
''Look out; can't you see yer crushing
me bundle?"
81 beg ten thousand pardons, mad
anne" replied the youth, who had raised
a laugh at his expense owing to his
awkward lurch and the sharp explana-
ton of the woman.
Wont you allow me to secure you
seat in the cattle car, where You and
your trunk will be in no danger of be-
ing harmed by contact with the wide
world?" And soto voce he added to
his fair companion: 'It's the place for
such cattle, anyhow. The English sys-
TEN of first, second and third class is
far superior 10 our mode of crowding in
with all sorts of crea tures?"
The quick ear of the woman had
caught the word cattle" and she
sprang to her feet like tigress
Cattle, is it?" she glared 81 may
not be a lady like yer pretty friend, but
I'm a woman with woman's feelins.
That bundle has flowers in it for me
dead baby. While yez were dancin'
and drinkin' me little bye wuz lynn cold
and stiff. And these two arums that
should have held him had to wash the
dishes at the club house to get money
apou-h ~ 4olza mn booly 10 +ba Jor
nursery, where 1 left him this marn-
in. / have known me little bye was
dead for four hours, and with me heart
a-breakin' had to go on with me work
to get me money. There are only
few buttercups in that bundle, but me
little bye loved 'em, and name to car
~ them to where he is and place them
in the little dead hands and around the
little body. OH me baby, me babyr
and the poor mother, overcome by her
feelings, sank into her seat and gave
way for the first time to an unre-
strained fit of sobbing and crying that
shook the poor frame under the pitiful
finery and left not dry eve in the car.
Without word the young man who
had been the cause of the Outburst took
off his hat, laid dollar bill within and
started through the car. When the
train drew into the Philadelphia depot
respectful hands assisted the mother TO
alight, and there were many other
floral offerings on the little cRsl1et be-
side the cherished bunch of buttercups
held in the baby fingers. -Philadelph
Times