The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-05-05
BEAUTY IN A FURRY.
After She Rad Everything Fixed She
Found she Had Nothing Fixed.


sengers were buried in newspapers
some, divested of their surplus cloth
ing, were lounging on their seats,
prepared for long journey, for it
was through express on the Boston
and Maine, says the Boston Herald.
The forward door of the coach
opened suddenly; there was rustic
of skirts and a rattle of small bag
gage, and a little girl appeared in
the doorway, followed and guided by
young lady of prepossessing ap-
pearance. The little girl started up
the aisle, but was promptly recalled
by these breathless injunctions:
"Here, Jessie, better take this seat
right up front, you'll have it all to
yourself; you can put the box down
there, then the bundle can go up
there Cin the rack ove~head), the
sachel can stay right on the seat, so
that you can get what you want out
of it,
''Is the lunch in the sachel?"
asked the girl, timidly.
"No; guess the lunch is in the box
I'd better take it out, too."
The young lady, furried and ex-
cited, explored the large cardboard
box, tshed out small parcel, laid it
on the seat and said;
"Better let it stay right here
needn't mind putting it in the sachel
Now let me see-oh, yes, you've got
your ticket; better put it where you
can get it easilv-yes
The little girls broad hat wasn't at
a good range with the seat and
she restead uneasily.
"Can't you sit comfortably there?"
asked the other. ''Let me take off
your hat and put it on the seat in
'front.'" and she proceeded to do so
with great haste.
That done, she stood d moment in
deep thought. In the minds of the
other passengers there seemed to be
dead stiffness in the car. The
young woman exclaimed:
"Oh, my, 1 had almost forgotten
to give you the checks! Now, wasn't
that terrible?''
Everybody looked up. The old
gentleman with the clearinghouse
air peered over the top of his paper
with a frown, which gradually re-
laxed into an amused smile as he
caught sight Of the young woman.
q smile from which It could be in
ferred that her attractiveness might
make her excusable, no matter if it
did interrupt his digestion of the
financial column. The young man
with the football hair and the wide~
trimmed derby crawled out of his
corner, looked up, and seemed half
angry with himself for not taking
an interest in the prepossessing party
before; and thereafter apparently be-
lievea that SO much Auttering was
sufficient excuse for his gazing in
that direction without showing bad
taste. Several women exchanged
glances, which Indicated that in
their opinion the young woman was
conscious of her charms, and that
they considered it all very amusing.
1t was quite evident, indeed, that
nearly every one in the car agreed
with them, no matter what additional
notions they might have about the
matter.
The train boy stopped in his ora
tlon on ''Ihe greatest magazine in
the world-just out" as the Young
woman, looking at her watch, cried !:
"Now, you remember what 1 said
you stay in this car till it stops
now, remember, not the first time,
but stay in till the man comes and
says it doesn't go any further. Now
good-by, they'll meet you. Don't
forget to give them the checks-tell
them we are all we'll and will go up
soon-now l must go-good-by.
Kisses I'll watch you from the
platform
Three minutes and the train would
start.
Ihe pretty young woman stepped
from the car to the platform, while
the young man with the football hair
mourned because she was not going
to take the journey, instead of her
young charge.
She stood on the platform opposite
the window at which the YOUNG
charge sat, and she wore a perplexed
look as if she were not satisfied that
everything had been looked out for.
Then she went out to the brakeman.
as if to relieve her mind. In an in
stanct she was in the car again
more furried than ever Everybody
again looked up.
Come, Jessie, quick! How stupid!
This is the wrong car, next one
ahead, he says" and she flushed
furiously, while the men smiled be-
hind their papers, the women gig
gled right out, and the train bow re-
sumed his Grafton on the ..great and
only magazine of it's kind in the
orld-just out"
When she had got the little girl
and the bundles together and hurried
them out of the car, the problem
which seemed to bother the passen.
gers who remained was:
''How will she ever get the child
settled in her new quarters before
the train starts"
"What's your congressman doing in
WaShlngtOn?" 'Hc's I'D ra win, rs :,