The morning news., 1894-10-22
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Some Things That Will Prove Inter-
eSti08 TO the Fair Sex.

a Good Story of the Spoiled American
Woman, to Start OF With-sundr
Readable Bits.
TIE American woman is badly spoiled
Illustrating this was an incident on yes.
terday's Hudson river boat, says Clara
Belle in her letter from New York to the
Cincinnati Enquirer The woman who
to a sudden call from sick friend. The
incidental expenses at the other end of
the trip had been more than she expected,
and when she got settled on me return
boat which left at in the morning for
its all-day trip to New York she sound
herself with no money except a few dimes
and pennies in her "car fare" purse. She
made up her mind, however, that she
wanted a stateroom that she might lie
down and get some sleep.
She went to the office, asked for a
stateToom, and to the customary "$1," she
said, with much self-possessioa: u want
to pay by check, please" as she drew
forth little silver-mounted check book
The purser closed his mouth hard and
remarked, coldly 1--WE take only cash,
madam"
II suppose So" she returned, unruffled
but ] have no money with me, so 1 can
only pay for it by check"
The purser said he could not accommo-
date her, and here her eyes flashed little
What nonsense - she said; Il cannot lie
down in the saloon, and l want to go to
sleep. Where is your captain?'
In spite of himself the purser began to
feel himself a miserable worm, but he
managed to say, with some dignity, that
Il
matter, and that he himself was only fol-
lowing the rules of the company. Where
at she again said What nonsenser and
looked SO much as if she meant it that
the purser began to flush up and wish
himself home. 1.-The check is good, of
course" she went on, but that is neither
here nor there. The amount is only ST.
and l presume the company would not go
into bankruptcy If it were not good"
The purser made the mistake of saying
that he would be personally responsible
in any such case. The little lady looked
him all over, then she dipped the pen in the
ink and answered: II need a statereom; it
is absolute nonsense that / should be de-
prived of it because Of the risk involved
for either the company or yourself in
taking my check for 81. If were an ad-
ventures ! would hardly put myself to
so much trouble for such amount or such
occasion, but even if am, and the COM
pany or you lose the money, the matter
is too small to be considered. Please do
not keep me waiting any longer. Shall I
make out the check to you or the com
paEy?"
Beads of perspiration stood on the pur-
ser's brow, and he gasped ITO me-"
She barred pair of slender, ringed hands,
wrote in a free, careless hand the name
he gave, signed an unreadable scraWl and
passed over a check on tho Fifth Avenue
l. a. i re
moment she then half slipped q solitaire
ring from her finger and said, in tone
calculated to PROSTATE any miserable man
with humiliation: "I shall be glad to
leave the security for the amount If you
can give me a satisfactory receipt" He
managed to say that 1t would not be nee
essary gave her the key and she went
away
Now, the funny part of IT was that she
was distinctly a lady. Although she ad-
dressed the unfortunate man as If he were
worm, it was because she really thought
him one. AS an American woman of the
swell set she was so used to consider
alton and obedience that anything like
an effort to restrain her by law made
for anybody seemed nothing short OF in
soleEce, to be put down as impertinenee
from a maid. She, therefore, put II down
got what she wanted, and did not even
consider it a courtesy. The only authority
that can tame the American woman is
the official authority Of another woman.
If that purser had been a woman, mlladi
would not have got the stateroom and
would have been the withered one at the
end of the effort.
He watched her bitterly, while she ate
the double porterhouse steak, with the
usual side dishes, says the Dertroit Free
Press
city, but with terrible earnestness.
Sir" she exclaimed, her lip curling