Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-12
HIS TREAT.
A Question of Honor Settled by the Sweet
 Girls,

A Question of Honor Settled by the Sweet
 Girls.
 He met them just as they were troop ing out of the drug store, telling each other gleefully how much cream those people did put in the soda on cool days
 "And I always save my own soda money for cool days" remarked the girl ill the pink shirt waist. "On hot ones somebody always treats you any how. Besides you really never get as much cream when man gives tho or- der
 "I don't seo how you have so much money to spend, anyhow" gloomily re- piled the young man who had joined them.
 "Oh, we have just slipped our car fares again, and this is the way we ccle- brate it, replied his sister,.
 "Don't you know it isn't right to cheat the car companS?' asked the young man, with q judicial air,
 "Not right, indced!" said the girl who had onco spent two months at col lego. "Thcn why isn't the company mado to give us a scat for a fare? Tell me that"
 Um-ah-oh, that is different matter!" weakly replied the young man.
 'It is, is it?" rctorted his sister. "That's all you know Oh, it was so funny today. We got on crowded car and kept cd2ing farther to the front so tho conductor thought VIC had paid. The first time he cHmu near us WC asked ill injured t>jl'a ,Y!:y h" had not given Hs transfers, and N'H got them too.
 But what G:d yuu want with trans frrS?'
 eve didn't want them at all our selves. lat wien wo got off we saw thrco little ragged boys who looked as if they needed fresh air, so WIG gave them to them, and the girl in the pink :-hirt waist looked virtaVus
 But don | sec how you can cheat "- ''It isn't cheating to get ahead of a street. ear company, replied the girl who had ultr j:i,Vnt two months in col lrgc Did ever tell you how I once passed dime with d hole ill it? No! We'll, I got on u car with that coin, and that only, in my pocket. I was going to l dance that night, and l knew if walked homo I'd he too tired to enjoy it, su just had to pass it, II don't sec how you could expect "-
 "Dm't you? Well, I just smiled up into the conductor'S face as gave it tC him. He felt that it was a dimo. and with his eyes fixed on minc gave mo a nickel, dropped the dime i'll his pocket and passed slowly on" "Ah, oh, wasn't it too funny" gig 1 glod the other girls, "Why, know Il girl who succeeded ! i'll getting two fares at Onco out of the company" said tho girl in tho pink shirt waist How? Oh. Shr found she had como off without any money, and | she ditin' want to go back, so she got on with a lot of people, and whilo the | conductor Was collecting their fares Inc | had tn go out and drive l lot of boys off | tho rear platform. When he c;lmr back, shc looked gricvcd and asked, 'Dnu t get any change for dimc?' She got il | tool"
 "Oh. May, how awfully funny! | cried the girls. while the yuunE man muttrrrd something between his teeth.
 "NcS. l told her that 1 doubted if il was just right. but she said she had beer riding on that line every day for two l years, and they owed her something.
 "Pah! !' said tlc young man. "Wom en seem to have no real idea of honor as men have. Now, no man would dc such a''-
 "Wuuldn't hc?" asked tho girl ill tht pink shirt waist. Well, we'll ask tho | first man we meet whom we happen tC know if he ever slips his fare. ,"
 "YeS and iuSult'- "Ah, no! Here comes MT. Gratehed Ask him.
 Here, Gratehed." called the yoans man, i've are just talking of slipping car fares and"-
 "You are, eh? Well, the best way t' do it is''-
 Five minutes later the girls led th' young man to the drug store and made him treat to soda twice. - Chicago | Times Herald.