The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-03
AS IN A LOOKING GLASS.
The Doings, Sayings, Happenings ana
Sights of a Day in the City.

,untry during the summer, ANA have
carefully closed y. ur house AGAINST the
operations or thieves and tramps,
but when you return, why Is
IL thas almost Invariably
you find you have ct the family cat
locked up In the house durilg your ab-
ssnce. This is ques ion which Is asitst
lag he minds uf all l., u;eholders, but
however ire ul YOU are to eliminate the
Cat just before you lock up for the sum
mcr. You will ways find ner sireschei
on the rug at the ior. patiently waning
ylur return. Our house is Locked up, al
the folks are away. yes AL nos5 esery
morning am awaKrned by the frantic
hOwls OF a poor half-sJarvsd feline, VINO
will persist in crawling into tho cellar,
how, heaYen o ily knows. rs the windows
are covere with screens aud there
l. no otre: ille., but she
gets til, re just 81 g same, and IL takes me
n half hour To chase her out from her
hiding place. IL ~ the same cat every
day. but when she gets iaIo our ce'iar
she is in veritable e>ert, 3 outside Oh
some camel goods there is nothing
eatable.
II was Mt the park Tuesday night: He
and the "dear, st girl on enrtn" w re
seal ed in the little summer house just
atross the "a % from the band stand asd
were so wiapp; at mp in each other as
to be entiiely obiivlous TO anything
round abous the a.. My wife ana 1
s,roiled pas, the house where we noticed
ihe loving couple and we stepped very
care .ully so as TO avoid disturbing them.
The descendant OF Adam cou dnt
keep his arms away from the daughter OK
Eve aad was SO busy In embracing her
supple form and covering her features
wi, kisses as To be unaware that any
ore was near, and consequently we
hat good opportunity 10 SEE
how IL look, d IL others. After gazing AT
them until lelt strange qua ms IN the
stomach. aud To avoid an display OF
feelng, l drew my wife away from the
house As we started off my wife looked
up with twinkle In her eyeand siii In =,
peculiar tone: "Di you ever stop To
think. dear, how foo ish We mus5 have
appeared esore we ware mar
ried :" l sonehow or other gos
stopped all further que itioning by lib
eraI application of ice cream, but now
HOW before / Q nbrac, her she is inights
careful To see tuat no one is looking O.
lie submitting.
Rev FIR. Lyme, assistant pastor OF
ST.. Charles church, Wons ocket, ana
presi ent OF the Catholic Total AbSIi-
nence union OF Providcnte diocese, IL AZ
tending CONVENTION of the NJ 81 chG-
set $ Total Abstineace union III SpIDs-
field, Mass.
1h, first victim of the new Crescent
PARK electric line was an innocent canine,
who carelessy ran athwart one o.
the morning vehicles and PAID
Tor his temerity with his ne
The car passed along in safety
and the irate owner oil the cur WAC
chanced t. witness the ca astrophe sent
after the rctreatin2 motor string OK pro-
faui nearly as long as the iced WIRE Az
another time in the diy car
conveniently jump d the tracS Just In
iro 4 OF "a telegraph pole, nearly co iding
with 10, hut the alert motorman Drou<hG
his prancing vehicle to stop bcf1re any
damage was done beyonl mere slak-
ins mp Of the y sseneers Inc
joke Of the day WAS on the conductors
and motormel. At The end OF the Last
trip 10 the park tie poAer went back on
them ana tney found themselves
stranded miles from home. Inc
current could not be turned on
again aDd it was all soiuteiy
necessary for the men To return to the
other end Il the route in order to take
the first cars out of the staDes In the
y orniug. There was nothing To co DuJ
to walk Tor IL, and this is just what TIE
weary emp Dyes did. Some or them
resided even so far away as Mount
PIE isant. Ii was fully o'clock in the
morning VIII n some f them got home
aLd discouraged lot tney were.
Not single wayfarer put mp Mt the
Hotel de Police Station last night. Tde
non-attendauce may be attrib-
uted 10 several causes. but
tie primary reason, probably,
q haf ha piOlIS "A
led OF grass are more seductive to the
average ramps than any II 'ucture rear
ed by the hand OF man may be.
I,ook in shor. dinner the other day,
literally speakin1, and was dumbfoundrd
at the inherent zest for CLAIMS displayed
table. The taste r. clans Is hereditary.
Mob )dy cIn acquri y, rs IT. texistS here,
in "a sing Lifetime. IL requires several
generation # clam-eating ancestors 10
bring oie's palate to 10 that peculiar
sac OF snsce )libiity requisite t.
lusk. Stranger cinuot acquI
it in single sitting, no matte
how hard he may try. A clan is really
good thing. 1t possesses all the piquancv
al the oyster and the flavor OF newly
slau.hteie cd ,enison. A true Rhode Is
lander never lays uONn MS huite q !" ioth
until he has ~ pie OF empty
shells in front OF him so high taat he c,n-
OF see his eghb r on the Other side OK
tn. table. | locked with slue app7ehen-
sion upon the gentlemen sitting around
me. 20 ring that hal lost
M appetite, bus finally be-
ctme Convinced that the faut lay
IN lack Of appreci tion of the clam Oh
my par | would have given IS nall
fortune for the appetite OF the man who
sat lex. To me. lie sIorcI away the
grslly she'll is with the arlcr OF
connisspur. To be happy learn TO eat
clans.
The police every day meet with cases
so pathe ic that they sem scarcely cred-
FL, y ( such cases exist on every hand
We who bave comfortable homes, aad
do not know wnat it II TO want for
place TO lay our heads, can hardly under
stand how it feels TO be walking the
streets without homo. AT any age
such "a coudtion o. affairs is sad, but
when the person is past three
score years and ten aud il a