The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-27
AN INCIDENT IN REAL LIFE.
Showing How Unpleasant People Can Make
Themselves by Their Talk.

howl Ing How Unpleasant People Can Make
Themselves by Their Talk.
stepped upon a Broadway car at the
lower end of Broadway and rode IN it
along that fast changing highway as far
Is Nineteenth street. At the corner o.
Chambers street and Broadway a man
of perhaps 40 and "a woman not more
than %, he carrying a huge portmanteau.
. collection of wraps. WI umbrellas
and a cane. she leading by the hand a
8-year-old baby, Joined the partially
crowded patronage already seated. A
cloud Of dissatisfaction rested upon the
brow of the man. The frown of an al
ready born rumpus fast unfolding into
fruitage made forbidding and u-ly the
comely countenan' e of the woman. Eet
nervous disposition made itself known
20 every one in the car and particularly
70 the little boy rs she yanked the caiil3
by the arm i'm, the scat beside her. Aft
er a moments silence the woman said,
'You might have known how it would
be-" to which he responded. VIII, |
might have known. but l didn't. SC shu:
ap.'
Another passenger entered the car at
that moment and stumbled over the port
uanteau.
Hang that bag said the man.
IF ! We're you, | would keep my cuss-
ing for home" sail the woman, and so
on and on and on.
The ensuing half hour was passed by
these two in IA stain which would have
done credit to the most pronounced har
IN fha Jirf1aSf rft1nrtar, IF n yhirl ,.stn
fish market. Tie little boy, thank heat
en-. went fast asleep. Much of the CON
versation between the two was inaudible
save to the three or 'our people in imiae-
dlate contact with ITEM, but every once
In awhile the shrill voice of the fralal.
bird scared into upper attitudes Of def
ance, making discordant the entire at
mosphere and attracting the attentiel
OF nearly a score of people. They got
out at the corner of Fourteenth street
and Broadway and entered a cafe-ne
sullen, ejaculatory and p~rofane: She
keyed up to G in alt. defiant. shrewisli,
chock full Of scold.
Well, what of it? It is not such a very
uncommon thing for man and wife,
lovers even, for daily intercoursars-1o
quarrel and to vent s%erpentlike hia,ts
from the unruly members that wag with
curious motion as they distill poison
from bitter and jaundiced hearts. 1t is
not SO uncommon, | admit, but isn't it
always suggestive? | thought as | looked
ut the man, with a good, square. clean
forehead, well marked brows. a clear
skin and IN air of self poise, that he was
hardly doing himself justice. Save that
his hands Were rude and rough and that
his boots were country made, that his
portmanteau was considerably olde-
than the ordinary hill and that his UNI
brella looked as though it might have
been utilized by Mrs. Noah when she
came from the ark, he was a man Of the
world in appearance.
And the woman had q pretty face
Her hair was parted in the middle, as
women's hair should be, and revealed in
its old fashioned brushing a tiny ear. not
SO small as to indicate utter selfishness
but, on the other hand, not so large as t.
rival a genuine Saddle Rock oyster in it,
vulgarity. Her eyes We're brown. sof.
at that; her teeth We're regular and
clean: her dress was neat. her hands and
ACtL z NAaa. VA al o1tuoloildl Bik
upon the boys shoulder as he lay lies.
Ting against her. fast asleep, indicated
the feminine nature. the affectionate ten.
derne,s Of the mother.
Listening under the Circumstance was
not rudeness. 1t was compulsory. | sat
next the boy. Some Of his banana skin
ornaments my coatsleeve until this mo
ment. As he lay semicoiled up l noticed
the copper nails in the bottom of his shoe
and the copper toe upon the same. The
group was easily and perfectly within.
my vision. As word after word fell red
hot | thought: How odd this all would
have sounded in that shell-like ear five
years ayo. How strange it would have
seemed to the lover had he heard it or
had it been suggested to him that ever
it could be possible for him to heal such
language from such ips.-Howard in
New York Recorder.
ReclaimiDR Old Rubber,