Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-02
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WEDNESDAY MING. AUG. 2 1873.
Eypn zcd the Washer.

A Young woman with strikinSly
handsome face boarded a downtown
train at the Thirty-third street station
of the Sixth avenue elevated Thursday
afternoon. She wore blue gown, and
q nattv straw hat was pinned over her
brown curis. Her bri.ht black eyes
and smiling mouth, had attracted the
attention of all the passengers on the
station platform. A dark-haired young
man in snowy light suit and broad
trimmed straw hat had stared at her
for several minutes before the train ar
rived. He followed at her heels as she
stepped aboard the train. She drop
red into q seat on the west side of the
car, and the young fellow in the snowy
suit sat in vacant seat directly oppo-
site her, and, fastening his eyes o. her,
SIN led impressively.
The Young woman fixed her black
eyes steadily upon him, and she, too,
smiled The effect of her smile and
her sngularly steady gaze afforded
unique entertainment for the passen-
gers for the next twenty minutes. II
was self-evident that the man in the
SNOWY white clothes had started in to
make "a mash" on the pretty girl, and
it was equally self-evident that she was
aware of it, and determined to thwart
it. After he had encountered the gaze
of the dancing black eyes of the pretty
girl for about two minutes the masher
took out newspaper and read Il little.
Then he looked over the top of the
newspaper and smiled at the beauty
She kept her eyes fixed on him, and
again smile played about her mouth.
1t was very peculiar smile, though,
like the steady look Of the young wo-
mans eyes.
The masher's eye dropped back to
his newspaper. Presently he looked
UP again, and once more smiled. 1t
was a fainter smile than its predecessor.
Again the peculiar smile came into the
pretty woman's face, and She gazed at
the masher as if looking clean through
him. He smiled again after trying 10
read his paper, and then yawned. He
began TO gaze at the young woman op
osite timidly after that. and yawneG
several times. The pretty young wom-
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ment OF all near the couple the masher
did the same. When she opened her
ewes he did the same. The singular
smile came into the young woman's
face anew as she noted this, and then
she closed her eyes, and kept them shut
a full minute. The train was nearing
Chambers street when she opened them
auain. The masher. who had closed
his eyes when she did, let his newspa-
per fall into his lap, and his head fell
over against the ledge of the car win
dow. He was sound asleep. There
was something of a triumphant look in
The yourg woman's face as she saw the
newspaper drop. She Looked around
1T the other passengers, and this time
her mile was good tempered and cheer
~. Itappeared to be used to direct
;,;tertion 10 the unconscious condition
as wOuld-be masher. She arose as
the train rounded the curve at Park
pace, aud got off and walked toward
Broadway. Two men, who had made
study of mesmerism, had watched the
maneuvring Of the young woman's
eyes and lips during the trip with great
interest.
''If that woman hasn't hypnotised
that dude off there" they said, ''then
there is no such thing as hypnotism.
She put him TO sleep as sure as We are
alive N y. sam