The Indianapolis journal., 1893-08-06
ODD PHASES OF CITY LIFE
An Incident 10 Shopping that Caused
q Housewife Some Em barrassment
Satisfaction One Woman Found in Crowding
on Street CaT-Floating Miss Indiana
High in the Sky with Gas.

TO the bargain counter of any OF the dry
goods stores " hen there Is some special at
traction, such as calicoes at cent yard.
and SEQ the women three and four rows deep.
aud the idea that there Is nc business will
be entirely dIsDelled. One day last week
there was just such q rush at one of the
counters of one of the largest shops. and
women of all shades OF color were strug-
Cling TO secure some of the materials that
were being almost gwen away.
Among the many were two who figure
Importantly in this tale of woe"
One was Q white woman of the North Side
and her neighbor was of somewhat darker
omDiexion from some other quarter of
town. In the confusion Madame White,
having com pleted her purchase. turned to
60. As she did so she picked up Madame
Blacks pocketboOk and thrust il in her
shopping bag. She left the store on other
errsnds intent. not knowing the loss she
bad brought on the colored woman.
When Madame Black decided her purchase
and looked for her money it was not. She
was almost crazy: all her money was con-
tanned In that bag of leather. Her sorrow
was loud and long. and nearly every one In
the W hole tablishment soon knew that her
money was stolen. The clerk at that par
tIcular counter happened to know W hO the
woman was who had stood near her during
the sale. aLd gave her the name and ad-
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speed to find Madame W. When she came
to the house her victim had not yet re-.
turned from her shopping expedition, and
the excHed woman could not make the
housemaid understand either who or what
she wanted. Neither would the maid let
her come into the house and wait for her.
The woman was not going TO allow any
such small matter as that TO keep her from
her rightful possessions so she sat herself
down on the porch 10 await Madame's ar
rival
The length of time that she waited seem
to be somewhat indefinite. Madame w.
says it could not have been more than tif-
teen or twenty minutes. as she had only
one other errand TO do after she left the
store. while her worthy contem porary
lust knows she waited mos de whole
day." Certain it Is that they finally came
together. Madame b. had had some time
to recover herself. SO that she could speak
calmly. and she told of her lose. Madame
w. aid not dream of what was coming.
The colored woman saw that the taking of
the money even yet was unex peoted by
the other. The who had come To ac-
cuse harshly now found her role somewhat
changed. There was nothing lett for the
accuser TO do but TO tell the ther that the
money was in the bag. Again the tables
turned. The bag was searched, aud. sure
enough, there was the lost pocketbcOk.
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Every body rides IN the street cars: that
is q part of every INDIANAPOLIS persons life.
If there should happen to be anyone who
has not, that one Is an exception which
would be difficult TO believe. There are
many pleasures in riding. and there are
also some experiences that are not so pleas
ant. One action of the fellow PASSENGER Is
particularly aggravating. IL is to wish TO
enter a seat of the summer car and haye
the person occupying the end seat refuse
IN In ha III
compelled to crowd by, and if the two
happen to be women there is q great
musslng of finery. The one who has to
pass does not always find herself In
the most amiable frame of mind after the
performs and has been known to voice
her feelings more than once. 1t happened
coming down Illinois street not many
days ago that the first woman In the seat
took the one nearest the end. Not many
squares further down woman No. 2 stepped
in and waited for No. tn move. No. was
not so inclined, so she held her place. No.
2 was not going To let No. act so and sub
NIT silently. 80 she began to air her mind,
and she Is q woman who knows how TO eX.
press herself without nelp from any body's
dictionary. No. l almost wished that she
had moved: the woman's talk was so much
more forcible than elegant Nor was her
wrath IN any degree appeased when No.
| had TO crowd by again. her stopping place
coming before the Others. No. would
| not be the first one to say that IL put her
| out of temper TO have q person hold an end
seat. and If she would confess 10 she would
| say that she occupied ali the space she
| DossIbly could IN getting by and bump
the other person as much as she could,
making 10 as uncomfortable as DOss BILE.
| She has even gone so far as to say that she
was glad when she got i'm last and doubly
| glad when she had To gss out tirst. Ten 10
| one if the two women should relate the
case each would speak of the linpoliteness
| of the other and think that she alone was
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we'll known lady of this city. who had
/ two hundred dollars in the Indianapolis
| National Bank hen it closed also had $500
| In another bank. Becoming needlessiy
| alarmed for the safety of the latter de-
posit. she hastened to the bank to draw It
out When she reached the teller's window,
check In hand. there was colored woman
| beside her who had check for eco and
/ who presented it just as the lady did hers.
The teller handed out the two amounts IN
gold at the same time ond the lady who
| had presented the $500 check supposinG
it TO be hers raked it all In. The colOred
woman ventured TO remark, II guess yOuse
| gittin' my money amt your but the lady
assured her she was not, and pocketed her
wealth. On leaving the bank she hastened
to her brothers office TO count her money
and found 60 her surprise that she had $50
too much. Her brother counted it and he
also made it S5b0. Seeing that q mistake
| had been made. she returned to the bank,
| and as soon as she could get the teller's
said Il guess YOU made mistake in
| paying my check" HE seemed TO take in
| the situation ut once aud said. "No. but
you got that coiored wOman's money"
| From explanation which followed it ap-
peared that when the colored woman
| found her money had been gathered by
| somebody else she became quite excited
4 a hnn n aha tn la lah
The teller assured that the lady who must
| so by mistake aud that she was
| perfectly honest and would return it,
| He gave the colored woman the lady's ad-
dress. and she lost no time in calling at the
lady's house TO demand q settlement.
| Meanwhile the lady had returned the $50
| TO the bank. who're the owner found IL u
few hours later. Perhaps the funniest part
| of the story 10 that when the lady returned
| Co the bank to return the $50 that she had
received in excess she also deposited the
| $500 she had checked out half an hour be-
| fore. As soon as she got the gold In her
possession her panic subsided. and with tho
| return OF reason she concluded to put her
money back In the bank.
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| ''It fs nothing but utter nonsense" said
the man who had married four times, Ito
tion than Is possessed by men. There is
/ not one man in q hundred who could go
through the worry of taking care of baby
for the first two years of it's life without
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