The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16
SHOP GIRLS OUTDOOR LIFE
Bah EntertainS Us by Telling of Her
AmuSements.
SheIf-Crude Har-WaviRE own
Ie-J n he ~SparkIers,~
nuaI mirersa Hersh


ighted.
: o'clock. and it is packed. packed with
inc Sparklers and their lady friends. At
o,sV II goes OF. followed by the cheers OF
an those SHo came down TO see their
friends or. and by the whistles and
screams Of the street bows VINO ieer At the
ehtlre crowd. One boy yells: Say.
Swlpesey. amt Name a dude?" While
Names mother. hanging over the rope.
cautions her at the top OF her voice to
take care OF herself and have a good time.
And Name has IT,
First she dances with Svvines-,- and
then with all his friends. The invitation
10 dance Is not worded after the fashion OF
Ihat given at the Patriarchs' TO Miss We're
de we're. but the gallant says. as he wipes
the perspiration from his perspiring brow
| ana scratches his chin, Turn wild me?"
Ana Name mods And then he crasps her
closely With one arm and stretches out the
other as far as 1t will go. and then they
10 round and round in a circle until you
wonder they don't drop down from dizzi-
ness. At the end OF each dance the gem
/ deman save the mark offers beer, or
sdrsaparilla, as treat. However. Swipe-
/ sey always comes between and Name is
,reated by nobody but him until she meets
ms arch enemy, the second bartender.
w men this parsonage asked her to dance
ne did II after this fashion: Say, Miss
laherty. aren't you goin' 10 let de light
your countenance smile upon me in de
dance! Now, Name knew she was do
ing wrong; but she also knew that Swipe-
sey was at the bar. and being hattered she
whirled off in the arms OF the second bar
Keeper and threw care TO the winds Tn
fortunately, Swipesey returned before the
dance was over, and when she stopped she
met his reproachful gaze. He came up to
her grabbed her by the arm and attempt
ed to walk her off. but the second bar
fr1 4.
MISS tlaherty you are certainly goln'
TO let me treat you TO something coolin'.
amt your"
Furious as he was Swipesey managed
to restrain himself. and said: III Name
wants anything GOBLIN. I kin git 1t FUR
her"
But the second barkeeper took no no
tice OF this, and added; Miss Flaherty.
l spoke to you" Foolish Name! She
giggled, and half alphabetically SAIL:
well, 10, / do think | ought to go with
this gentleman. as l am his pardner.'
She went, and when she came back
there was no Swipesey. SO the second
barkeeper stayed with her. and she
danced with him, and had lemonade with
him, and talked with him. and nirtcd
with him, and still there was no 80.
At last she said to one of the girls: Say.
Lizzie, come with me to look for Jo."
And she found him. Found him where
she looked for him, at the bar. But ne
hadn't been drinking the innocent drinks
that he had taken earlier in the day
when she was with him. He had been
having what they called whisky, and
what l call poison. And Swlpesey WITS
drunk not sleepy drunk, but fighting
drunk, and 1t was a mighty bad lookout
for Name.
He said to her. with a low bow, and
initiating the second barkeeper: Al, Miss
] I'M IN,
to speak to me-"
Name plead, "Oh, 10, come up on the
! deck" But 10 was determined 20 stay
as he announced. "mong my frens." So
poor. foolish Name sat among the girls
who were happy with their gentlemen
friends and felt herself alone The Sec
! ond barkeepcr had gone away with a poll
itician, and forgotten her, and 10 was
angry. So she waited and cried, and.
wished, like many a wiser woman, that
she was dead 1t isn't so easy to die.
! though. and death itself isn't the hardest
thing that comes to us. When the sun
| went down, the moon rose and shed its
| silver glow over that boat load Of happy
| and unhappy souls, and the word went
around they were getting near 20 the
city.
! And again Name started to look for her
| recreant lover This time. as he was n
! little sleepy, she persuaded him 10 come
with her Everything would have gone
| all right if-oh, that unfortunate it, the
second barkeeper hadn't been met on
| the gangplank. He raised his hat and
said, with exaggerated politeness: "Ah,
| Miss Flaherty thank you for the gay
and festive hours / had with your This
! was too much for Swipesey. There was
a scream, somebody saw him strike the
second barkeeper, somebody saw the
! girl attempt to interfere. and somebody
saw her fall over the chain and strike as
she fell against one of the big wooden
posts
No. she wasn't killed No. she is living
| But she don't stand behind the counter
! and sell ribbon as she used to. She is ly-
! ing on a bed in a quiet hospital uptown
and she can't lift herself up. Think Of
that! And she never will be able to lift
herself up. Her back was hurt. somehow
| Nobody bothers about her much. Some
times the girls in the store, who used to
| know her, go up 10 see her. Occasionally
| her mother appears and makes a loud
moan, but she has got so many other chill
dren and she doesn't realize how hard II
/ is to be young and have to lie still all the
time.
Every Sunday for while Swipesey used
to go to see her, and he took her all sorts
OF delicacics. II got to be an old story
though, even to him. Nowadays Lizzie is
his lady friend. And, as for the second bar
! Keeper w ell, ne never tIOuDieQ nlmSelI
about her at all.
How did / happen to remember It? Well,
the Scientist told mesthat among his mail
was a complimentary ticket to the picnic
of the Sparklers, to be given on July Is.
And both of us wondered If that picnic
would result in a tragedy And ribbon is
sold, and men drink whisky, and the world
goes on just the same. Bah.
A KINGS SHIN BONE.