Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-03-10
OLD AcQyAlNTANcEs.
She Meets Them Among Women and Men.
and They Make Her Tired.


She Meets Then. Among Women and Men.
and They Make Her Tired.
She came in from a shopping expedi-
ton and sank YEARLY down on the sofa
beside her friend. Undo my coat. dear. "
said she languidly. Il don't feel like lift
ing finger
Couldn't You find what you wanted@
asked the friend as she unfastened the
shoppers outer garment.
1T isn't that" replied the shopper.
II met an unusually large number of old
acquaintance. that is all. and the en-
counters made me tired. as Tommy says.
You know the kind | mean-the indi-
sidnals vary. brt the types are constant.
We've all met them time and again, al
though we don't often meet so many in
che afternoon.
What kind were they:" asked the
friend in tone of sympathetic compre-
hension.
We'll, the first one was the woman
who persists in leading her child, which,
just learning to walk, up Or down the ele-
waited stations steps, taking up the whole
width of the stairway and compelling half
score Of hurried persons behind her to
regulate their pace to that of the toddling
infant. We are such sentimental na-
ton on the subject Of children that it is
doubtful if that sort of woman will ever
be Taught that her particular baby is not
the pivot on which the general publicde
sires to turn"
Il know her sighed the friend retro
spectiyely. 'She is the same one who
permits the child that is riding free to
occupy whole seat in a public vehicle,
when grown persons who have paid their
fare are standing, and smiles when it
scatters greasy cake crumbs all over one
YES. The next one was the woman
who has the strap next yours in crowd
ed car and takes advantage of your near
neighborhood to settle back comfortably
and make you support half her weight
After escaping from her went into a
dry goods store and there encountered
the ponderous woman who always stops
in the narrow passage TO examine goods.
with no thought of buying. Behind me
was another familiar-the woman who
carries hard package which she screws
into your back, in case of any obstruc-
ton ahead, as spur to progress. | then
went to buy certain article and found
that there were several persons already
there and only one saleswoman. When
my turn came to be waited upon, was
just beginning to ask for what wanted
when along hustled the woman with
whom No. is by no means a mere
figure of speech. She pushed in front
of me, called fer various articles. pur-
chased what she wished and departed
without word of apology"
sSha never Apologies" remarked the
friend. "She comes in late when the
line has formed to buy matinee tickets
at the box Office and always tries to
force her way to the head Of the line in
stead of falling in at the end, as she
should. But didn't you meet any old
acquaintance among the men you saw
"Oh, yes. There was the man who al
ways contrives to step on your new pat
ent leather shoes the first time you wear
them, and the big man who sits down
beside you and strikes you in the chest
with his elbow, and the man who crosses
his legs in such n way as to wipe his
boots nice and clean on your dress, and
the man who stands close to you and ex-
peetorates at short range-why, it would
take all the evening to reckon the men,
and am too tired to make the exertion.
And she went away to take off her shoes
and see how much damage they had sus-
tanned. ISABELLA PRocToR.