The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-19
TILE GLOOMY SIDE.
SOME POINTS ON THE WOMEN WHO
DOTE ON THE GREWSOME.

Gloating Over the Things which Can,
Them Pain Gathering Pansies, b,
Looking For Snakes Episode of a New
% paper Woman's street Car Ride.
The other day | vas riding in a stree
TAR. There were II women and 3 mo
IN the same quarters. We logged alon
o u way as people do out of whose lit
" all interest had been taken by a hot da.
as \ rude nurse snatches playthings frol
helpless children. Whether ..school ken
or not was u matter of not the slightes
moment to any of rs. Indeed | had rea
son to hope that should never again b
confronted with bulletins as to the ris
n tall OF that mythical %educationa
bureau whence we all draw more or les
OF knowledge fraught with bitter expe
Renee. Its pupils are so stupid and it
head preceptor SO unrelenting that | hay,
long been a-weary of its curriculum.
Opposite in the car sat a young woman
whom often meet and shall continue tt
meet. suppose. until the sexton shoyels
a few feet OF dust between u faces. |,
sne were a man. she would be in the at.
titude OF n who is '.spoilinQ for a
tight. What is mere combatiyeness
IN men takes the form of ~insolence in
women m is harder to bear. This
young person eyes my clothes. She
gloats over my shabbiness. She knovvs
exactly how many times a day INV moor
o!d gown is groomed. She is cognizant
OF the fact that my off shoe has sprung
q leak. inc as she losses her head and
smiles the smile that. passed from wo,n-
an TO woman. means more than a blow
seem to hear her say: "Ha, cumberer.
are you here yet? Last time | met Won
thought l stared you down, but such
rubbish seems hard to kill! A triAe
more ridicule. though. slightly yelled.
like poison in a capsule, will Law Won
low. and | shall have the pleasure If
turning my battery upon some other
1od forsaken crank who appears to have
more brains than stylew
We were tumbling along in the old
street car. a tired and dirty lot Of us.
bound for the depot. As we passed .
certain undertaker's shop on the wav we
noticed that a big crowd had collected |
az IT'S doors-a hushed crowd, with white |
races n bated breath. A police patrol
was drawn up to the curbstone and fonr
orawny officers were lifting something
out OF the wagon and carrying it within
Inc undertaker's open gate. The some
lning that lay beneath the old tarpaulin
was very still and outlined itself sharplv
beneath the sable folds of the pail that !
covered 1t. ! turned away from the
'ight, for there is that within me that
'evolts from such sights as the butterfly
ioes from the thistle or the swift run.
llng boat from a capful Of head wind.
knew well enough what the '.some-
nlng' was. Ten minutes before per.
laps 1t had been a man. swinging like n
ailo on the uplifted ladder where the
'alnter. pursues his craft, or a careless
asaoond Knocked down by a passing
ehlcie and straightway ushered into the
udlence chamber Of the great and only
ing. or a merry hearted boy spurned by
ny1ng wheel. or a tired old woman
ilfted high as heaven by the tender
rms of death. | knew yery we'll thu
ne awful something was once a breath.
lg. laundering mortal like myself and
nat a sudden calamity had transferred
INTO clay, how or in what terrible
amer ! did not care to see, Bpt az.
y woman in the car in which | rode
lmped from her seat to watch the
thing | turned away from.
'Oh.l wish the cover would fall off so
lat we could see!" cried one. I
Lift Willie up so that he can look,, {
a careful @ mother. MAKING
as she spoke for the nursesirl to
ace the little boy in a better position, e
NO sooner did all these women gain n a
ntase point from where they could S
81 behold the dreadful burden which S
. Policemen bore without either ten. b
rness OF care into the waiting station
the morgue than they began to trem.
and to cry. l.
On, dear. how DREADFUL! moaned 4
y in unison. while their fascinated v
was unaverted and their necks tt
re craned to see it all.
And then because | am q philosopher
my own poor fashion and can no more y
p philosophizing than a spider can .. y,
p spinning webs | said to myself. y
At Is the way with all of us! We seek "
GU " discomforts and we cnl. =
them with our own tears, We J
at e the very things that bring us
o and take a front seat to witness our
tragedies. Given. the most of ma. a
to spend an afternoon among the
lbs or to go fishing for goldfish out
crystal pond, and we will trot along
q the mourners every time. We r
avs in the attitude tmost of us) of
Peterkin family at the seaside. They
9 continually looking off shore for
lies, and they saw whales and moth M
whales from seasons start TO y
on's close! What we look for we
what we SOW we reap, what we o Wv
q we draw and what we expect ere
es to US. Jan
Ike two girls and send them on, W.
ugh the divine beauty Of these June VII
ds with a basket apiece. They are az
v1oiets, we will say. although the % q
'le drapery of the dim spirit flower e:
been almost withdrawn from the ssd