Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-10-20
THAT ELUSIVE TRUNK.
It Almost Broke Her Up to Watch Over
ITS Precious Safety.

1t Almost Broke Her Up 10 watch over
ITS Precious Safety.
From the New York Herald.
Madge assures me that she never
wishes to travel alone again.
THE last thing mother told me-" sha
said, in an aggrieved tone, twas, Don'u
lose sight Of your trunk In justice
to myself and the many irate baggage
men I left strewn in my wake nothings
but the French hat in the right han6
division would have made me follow
mothers directions as carefully as l
aid. But the recollection Of that hat
screwed my strength up at every station
and IL was not until | got on the boat
at Boston that l allowed myself TO be-
bodily separated from that trunk MY
mind never left 1t. All night while the
baggage men were playing footbalh
with the freight, directly under my
head, saw On my Imagination my
precious hat balancing first on one mer-
curry wing and then on the Other.
THAT was at night The next morn
ing | started for the baggage room be-
fore breakfast. After getting into yari-
Gus places where was politely informed
| wasn't wanted / attached myself 20 a.
small official. bristl.ng with brass but
tons. and begged his assistance. That
man is the one shining spot Tor consld-
er.ng his buttons, the shining spots) IN
my erratic Journey. He cheertully led
me, through parts unknown, to yne.
haven of my desire. 1t was locked
the haven-so we started to find tho
key or its owner
THE boat meanwhile was rapidly ap-
preaching the wharf where l was to-
change boats. After some bustling'
about a sleepy looking individual was
unearthed from the freight room and
my buttony friend besouglt him tol
open the door.
"'There amt any hurry as | knows
on. Nobody gets off here
but l must get off here. / change
boats here | eXpostulated.
"'Do tell he exclaimed, and sat
down to scratch his head and think,
separately. He couldn't have been do
ing both at once, 1t took so long. MY
friend answered for me:
"'Get up, there you fool. The lady
wants to get off. Where's the keyT
1--WE were now at the wharf.
az dunno. You might ask Tom
fairly danced with excitement The
boat had waited accommodatlngly 50
far. but the patience of even Name
boat will give out and the trunk was
still beyond my reach.
tom was found, but not the key
BY this time the captain, the crew and
all the passengers were giving sugges
tions. Then it was that my buttonyV
friend rose to the occasion.
Break in the blamed door he com-
manded. and, Selling a lire-aXe no
busrt open the paddock and we rushed
into the room to find it empty! I.waS
ready to cry.
ooh commented Tom, 'mebbe you'll
find it in the freight room. | amt say
ing you will but mebbe-'
1--WE didn't stop for the rest. In
body we rushed to the other end OF tho
boat. where comfortably on end was IND
wretched trunk.
after that no argument could move
me from the TOP OF that trunk. | ate
my dinner on Il, and [ ate my supper
on ID. And when at last we reached my
destination | was firmly resolved not TO-
come home iii all my clothes were worm
out, so that l shouldn't have 10 tako'
the trunk back.
That's why I don't ever intend to
travel alone again
And who can blame her?-New York
Herald.