Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-24
THETOO NJ EEK WOMAN
AWKWARD ADVENTURES OF ONE
WHO WAS NOT ASSeRTlVs.

u,.o,sci.usiy She Placed Herself In .
bad Light, and Later, When she Haf
Hin Against Another strongminded Fer
so,. she Came Out Second Hest.
| "Tbat text. Blessed are the meek, Ii Il
great comfort to me, said little woman
the other day "The meek surely ought to
have some reward hereafter, for they have
| a hard time of il here. often regret that
| | have that kind of disposition, and feel
willing to forego the reward promised In
the rest of the text, for they shall inherit
the EARTH for n fine, overbearing. bullying
spirit.
81 was shopping in IA big Sixth avenue
store the other day with my daughter. and
we were looking ut some furs heaped on n
bargain counter On the counter was II
pretty muff with a purse pocket on one
side of il, and us | admired IL picked II
up. showed it to my daughter and told her
that If her father and the children wanted
TO give me present to be sure and let
them know that would prefer muf just
like that,
"1.ook ut this dear little purse pocket
ON the side said, AS | unbuttoned the
cover of the pocket and looked in There,
to my surprise, saw II tiny lace handker
chief and some money. Instantly the
thought struck me that | had picked up
some customers muff by mistake, and ut
the same time sharp voice sounded in
my ears saying, What are you doing with
my mufY
~ turned around and saw n tall, well
dressed woman looking ut me angrily, and
regret to say ! blushed deeply at my
awkward mistake She evidently took the
blush for guilty one and proceeded to
scold me loudly and nsinuate that want
ed to steal her muff and money.
ALTOGETHER TOO MEEK.
81 ought to have answered her with
equal vehemence, suppose, but just here
my unfortunate meekness came into play
and reflected that my own stupidity was
responsible for putting me in position
where looked like II sneak thief, and that
the woman was justified in thinking SO
All did therefore was to apologize for
my action, but this seemed only to confirm
the suspicious Of the woman, the shop
girls and the floor walker.
FINALLY the woman took her muff, shut
off her stream of words and walked away
Seeing that had not convinced her of my
innocence turned to the floor walker TO
explain il to him, but he said he had not
time to listen, and intimated that the store
would prefer to get along without visits
from me in the future. Now wasn't that
"A nice inheritance for my meeknessy
After had recovered from my morti
ication somewhat we went into another
FOR m, bat |,
more customers than shopgirls in the mil
linery department, and so ! did as many
others were doing-tried on number of
hats before the glass without waiting
for shopgirl to help me, Not find
ing any hat to suit me, | decided to
go out, and looked around for my own
hat, which | had laid down on a table
as was trying others on. 1t was gone. |
looked everywhere, but could not find it
when suddenly my daughter spied it on the |
head of another woman, who was trying it |
Oh before glass.
OVERCOME BY MEEKNEss
Going up to her, said politely. That is
my hat you have on
Indeed, it's not your hat, she answered
lotly. i don't care if you did pick it out.
have chosen it, too, before you paid for it.
md intend to keep it.
Here my meekness overcame me again.
saw that by laying my hat down among
he ones for sale had led this woman to
hink it was for sale also Was she to
,lamei Was not | at faults Surely. So
apologized again and was about to assert
,nce more that it was my own hat. when
he woman appealed noisely to shopgirl
aging that was trying to bully her, and
Producing her purse she asked the price of
he hat and declared her intention of pay
ng Tor 1t and carrying it away in spite of
my Creature
The shopgirl looked at the hat for a
moment and then said that it was not "A
tore hat at all, and was not made there
Then why is it on the table for sal42'
sked the woman shrilly.
! put it there by mistake while WIS
rying on some hats said 1T is nv own
lat; trimmed it myself
Anybody could see it was a chean
econd hand, hideous thing said the wo,n
n, now in towering rage Take your
Id rag and she threw it down on the
able and hurried out. leaving me over
Inclined with confusion and feeling like ~
unity wretch. suppose should have
harged her with stealing, like the other
'oman did me But, then, you know the
leek shall inherit the earth. Pm nor ono 7
those people who want the earth bnt :
m bold to say that never yet saw a meek !
erson who seemed to inherit rs much of il
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