The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-14
HIS TREAT.
A Question of Honor Settled by tho Sweet
Girls.

A Question of Honor Settled by tho 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 l always save my own soda
money for cool days." remarked the
girl i'll 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. -
II don't sec 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 cele-
bratc it, replied his sister.
Don't you know it isn't right to
cheat the car company?'' asked the
young man, with n judicial air.
mot right, indcedW said tho girl
who had once spent two months at col
lege "Thcn why isn't the company
made to give Us IL seat for Il fare? Tell
me that
Um-ah-oh, that is different
matter'' weakly replied the young man.
ut is, is it?'' retorted his sister.
"That's all you know. Oh, it was SO
iunny today, We got on crowded car
and kept edging farther to the front SO
tho conductor thought we had paid. The
first time he came near us we asked in
injured tones why he had not given us
transfers, and we got them too
But what did you want with trans
fers?"
"Wo didn t want them at all our
selves, but when wo got off wo saw
three little ragged boys who looked as if
they needed fresh air, so we gavo them
to them, P" and the girl in the pink shirt
waist looked virtuous.
But don t see how you can chcat''-
lit isn't cheating to get ahead of n
street car company" replied tho girl
who had once spent two months III col
lego did ever tell you how L once
passed Il dino with hole i'll it? No?
Well, got on Il car with that coin, and
that only, i'll my pocket. was going to
dance that night, and 1 knew if 1
walked homo I'd 'be too tired to enjoy
it, so just had to pass it.
don't see how you could expect
Don't you? Well, just smiled up
into tho conductors face us I gave it to
him. He felt that it was dime, and
with his eyes fixed on mine gave me a
nickel, dropped the dime i'll his pocket
and passed slowly on. "
"Ah, oh, wasn't it too funny!" gig
gled the other girls
"Why, know girl who succeeded
III getting two fares at once out of the
company" said the girl in the pink
shirt waist How? Oh, she found sho
had come off without any money, and
she didn't want to go back, so shc got
on with "a lot Of people and while the
conductor was collecting their fares he
had to so out and drive IL lot of boys off
the rear platform. When no came back,
she looked eriovod and asked, Don't 1
get any change for dime?' She got it
too!'
"Oh, May how awfully funny!"
cried the girls, while the young man
muttered something between his teeth.
Yes. told her that l doubted if it
was just right, but she said she had been
riding Oh that line every day for two
years, and they owed her something"
PAIL" said the young man. "Wom-
en- seem to have 10 real idea of honor
as men have. Now, no man would do
such a.
"Wouldn't ho?" asked tho girl in the
pink shirt waist "Wcll, we'll ask the
first man we meet whom wo happen to
know if he ever slips his fare
eyes and INSULT
Ask him.
"Hcrc. Gratehed," called the young
man, eve are just talking of slipping
car fares and''--
"You are, Ell? Well, the best way to
do it is
Five minutes later tho girls led the
young man TO the drug store and mado
him treat to soda twice. = Chicago
Times Herald.