The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-06
A suAr IN A STREET OAR.

Ingenious wuys That Aiuy lie Employed to
Advantage by Good-LonSing ladies,
Don't you hate to stand on u street
carr" said the girl with tho chiffon
parasol
81 seldom do it." replied the girl
with the pink shirt'waist, "You'see
Pm notyery tall"
"Yos, but"
Well, ! got on the car with 4 pleas
ant smile look holplessly about me,
and reach ior strap"
| "WollP
Il Just miss it; then look about mo
in an embarrassed sort OF way and make
another effort, smiling all the time.
| Then the tullest man in tue car, who
| has been watching me all the time,
arises with M amused smile and gives
me his 5eat"
oh Well, I can reach strap
easily enough; my plan Is to look ut
their feet
Look ut their feetY
Eyes, you know man never quite
outgrows his hObbledenoy feeling about
them. We'll, ! just cling to my strap
until ono OF tho men seated near mo
looks ut me. lpretGnd not to SEQ It,
but look 1T his feet and give Il little
start, look away and then look back
Then what?"
"Why, he looks auxiously at them,
secs they are all right and goes back to
| his paper As he turns the page he
glances up and sees that am still look
| lug ut his ieut and smiling, lie il sure
there Is something wrong, but dare not
| look and see. lie stands it about i've
minutes, then goes out on tho platform
and stands while slide into the vacant
seat.
"Ohl Helen SAYS she Just stands in
front ola midde-aged man and looks at
HIM little Coqueushly.'
"Why mIddle-aGod man?'
"Niorc susceptible tQa smile, goosie,
You 500 the girls no longer notice him.
the Young fellows know plenty OF nice
young girls and think they arc all in
love with them, SO they don't melt SO
easily"
"And does sho get the seat"
ALWAYS, unless mis- wife Is along;
then Helen moves up the aisle and tries
II again"
70! Well, Mabol-you know how
pale Mabc! always is--sho takes hold OF
tho strap in languid sort OF u way,
then suddenly totters little and puts
the other hand over her eyes.
"WellY
"Why, you see, they think she is 60
ing to faint, and At least two seats arc
offered her"
"You don't say SO. Have YOU ever
noticed that the woman who carries u
lot OF bundles always has to stand? ..
"Yes, and I've often wondered why"
"Why, all men hate to 500 q woman
20 shopping unless they happen to own
Il dry goods store or hate hor husband.
II they only knew the Christening iEiIu-
cnce OF aacswomen and the humility
teaching ways OF floor walker they
wouldn't mind-exCcpt when they had
to pay the bills"
"llumphl Did you over happen to
ride down town with CorNY'
mo- why"
"Sho lust selects the incest looking
man in the car and stands in front OF
him; by-and.by sho whispers: Isn't
he hundsomc?"
"Whut them" eagerly asked the girl
with the pink shirt walst.
"Tho man looks up and catches hor
eye, Cora bushes, and he springs up
with an air OF having just discovered
that she is standing, and says Won't
YOU take this seat
"Ol wonder il alIImcn arc vain?"
"Of course they're not" rotorted tho
girl with the chiffon pNrasol. Any OF
them will tell you that | notice,
though, that when We are going to a
party my brother Jack takes as long to
drcas as l do and his room looks like
mino does when Two been hunting all
OF Georges presents to send them
back.
"Ol well" said the girl with the pink
shirt waist, ~ only hope they arc all n
little vain, for goodness knows how wo
could over manage them il they wcrc
not"