The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-02-12
Everyday Tales Of the Town
TerseIy Told.
suNDAyNooN At THE PosToFFIcE.
why the Man Who Was Wanted at
Home Became Contented TO Have
the Meeting Keep ON Meeting-On
Of Judge Warmers Good Stories.


toned voices.
The refreshing laugh of young woman
hood and young manhood and the more
sober chuckle of good natured middle age.
The pungent odor from a hundred or
more kid gloves fresh from their boxes;
the fragrance from boutonnieres and cor
sage decoration; the subtle scent OF Roger
and Gallet and of Lubin.
Scores of silk hats glistening; scores OF
gay bonnets bobbing.
Everybody talking at once.
II is half past twelve OF a sunny Sunday
afternoon and the scene Is the lobby OF
the Providence Postoffice.
The lobby is full of about as attractive
collection of womanhood and manhood
as will be seen about town In the course
OF the year.
All lsociety, or at least all the younger
set, have come down town for the mail.
They have come from East and West and
Tom North and South. From all the
churches around about-from Grace and
st. Johns, and the Round Top, and West
minister and DIR. Horizons and the Central,
st. Stephn's, DIR. Halls and the rest. Dis
missed from the forenoon service they
come trooping down town to the post
Office. Ii is worth q good deal
bosset street deserted, save by an occas-
sional Sunday newsboy, suddenly is full
of people-bright, smart, we'll dressed
young people with sprinkling Of
their elders. First few couples
and finally whole troops OF
Inem, family parties, merchants, bankers,
professional men, their wives, daughters,
and the guest within their gates. Ii looks
as IL big wedding was to be celebrated
somewhere about THE NEWS Office, or a
college football game booked for Post
Office court. The attractive spectacle is
open to the public for almost 30 minutes
and then 1t melts away like most particu-
larly attractive spectacles.
They come for their letters. For 10 or 20
minutes of a Sunday noon, Postofiice lobby
has the appearance of the vestibuie OF the
Opera House when the college men are
producing an opera inside. At the little
window at the further end of the lobby is
the assistant superintendent OF letter
carriers, Mr.. Newton. Four or five letter
carriers are there too, and
they pass through the window
to the expectant company crowded to-
gether about it the letters that would
otherwise be taken to the residences the
following Monday morning. Mr.. Newton
and his force are on duty there from II TO
o'clock every Sunday, but it is not until
after church that he is confronted with
this attractive company of applicants for
''any letters for me"-au smiling at him
and all talking at once while the musty
old postoffice takes on a new and sweeter
atmosphere for a little while.
II is a rather interesting custom, all
these young folk regularly coming down
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And il is immensely attractive to look at
Ready to Prolong the Meeting.
II was at q meeting of a prominent or
ganization not long ago that, at about
9:45 o'clock, one of the members made
motion TO adjourn at rather inopportune
point of the proceedings and was promptly
voted down. Within half an hour another
member rose to move an adjournment,
when he who had already tried to get the
company dismissed entered an objection.
"Thought you wanted to get away?"
came from two or three surprised voices
all about the room.
$50 did," assented the objector. "But
that was half an hour ago. When i
moved to adjourn there was just time to
get home without making my wife un-
easy. Now, she's as mad as she can be
and I'm ready to go on with the business
this meeting"
The Trouble with the Parson.
Judge Eugene F. Warner, Clerk OF the
State Senate, etc, is one of the best story
tellers in the State and here is one of his
good stories told to a group at the Press
Club the other night.
1t appears that old man Begun was not
much OF a chureh-going man, but having
faith that religion did the COM
munity, aside from himself, a measure
of good, nc had contributed a
big proportion of the fund that built the
new church in one OF the small towns not
q score of miles from Providence. Ac-
cordingly when, on Sunday, shortly after
the dedication of the edifce, the old man
attended divine service, Ii was OBJ
served that he didn't appear To be over
favorably impressed with the minister
who was on trial. The trustees thought
it no more than proper to learn IL he had
serious objections to the candidate before
arriving at a decision. With this in view
a committee waited upon him. After good
deal OF urging he admitted that IL he were
to be consulted he should, perhaps, hesi-
tate to fully approve of the minister
whom he had seen and heard that day.
Then something like the following con-
versation ensued:
"But, Mr.. Begum," ventured one OF the
committee, "what is your criticismY"
"Ob, nothin' to speak of, perhaps" re-
turned the old man. "You jes' go ahead
and do what you think best in the
matter"
"But," insisted the committeeman, "did
not Mr.. Fourthly strike you as most elo-
quent in the pulpit?"
"Oh, yes, suppose So" admitted the
old man uneasily.
"Wss he not most fervent in prayer?"
"Oh, yes, fcrvent enough l s'pose; you
jes' go ahead and"
"And powerful in discourse? Did be
not impress you as man thoroughly
imbued with the spirit OF righteousness
and sound as TO doctrine?"
"Oh, guess so, i guess so. You 60
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