Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-21

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asitated about something.
Mr.. Preston, young Bailey and Miss
Guthrie, the music student. were in the
parlor, waiting for the dinner bell.
Sweet slammed his hat on the piano
and said: eff din't see something just
now!"
IA woman with a toothpick in her
mouth?" asked Preston, for he knew
of one thing that always put Sweet
into paroxysm of rage.
1T was worse than that. Do you ever
see the fat woman that lives in the
lat building here at the corner?"
"The one with the dog?" asked Miss
Guthrie.
That's another thing!" exclaimed
Sweet, in triumph. "She always has
that fool dog with her. Oh, say,
wouldn't l like to poison that brute?
And there's another dog 1 want to get,
too-that little terrier that runs out Of
the grocery store. If had my way I'd
get rid of all the dogs in town.
"Why, Mr.. Sweet" said Miss Guth-
RE, reprovingly. I'm sure that Mrs.
Crowley's dog never annoys any one."
"Whos Mrs. Crowley"
"She's the one in the fiat building
at the corner. She's quite prominent
woman"
mo wonder she's prominent. She's
just as good as circus. Crowley, Ell?
You could almost tell that was her
name by looking at her. Well, it's a
good thing for Mrs. Crowley that I'm
not policeman, or sh'd be locked up
at this minute!"
"Why, Mr.. Sweet"
If any reader has met Mr.. Sweet it
will be recalled that he is constantly
annoyed, nagged and harried to des-
peration by the sight of things which
do not meet with his approval. At a
railway eating station one day he got
into fight with man who chose to
feed himself with his knife. At the
boarding house he used to weep because
a blonde grass widow would sit in the
parlor and pick her teeth. He re-
fused to speak to boarder named Her.
riman who wore a red necktie striped
with yellow. In fact, he favored a
death sentence for any one who didn't
suit in every particular.
whats Mrs. Crowley been doing
that's SO dreadful" asked young Bal
ley.
Il met her out here at the corner
just now, and what do you think? She's
: got her hair combed down over her
scars just like that French girl that's
.fancing in New York-what's her
name?"
"Maroh-day?" asked Preston.
"Is that what you pronounce it? It's
spelled Merode. Well, this brazen old
fairy down here at the corner had her
hairlooped down over her ears the same
as Merody. Say, l saw st. Louis after
the tornado, and l helped to recover
bodies from a train wreck once, but l
never saw anything half as bad as this.
just wish she was relative of mine
no, l don't, either. l will say this,
though: If any relative of mine ever
floated out into the street with her hair
done up like that, I'd begin to put
pounded glass into her food"
What difference does it make to you,
oWeet?" asked Preston. Hasn't the
poor woman the right to wear her hair
IN any style she prefers?"
No! No, sir, she hasn't, not when
Dther people have to look at her. Just
Mink of it, Preston. Here we Amer
leans put up our money to see some
woman shipped over from France, and
what is there to see? Why she wears
Der hair over her ears. They say she
,an't dance, and as for being beauty,
Why I'll bet you we have typewriter
girl down at the Office who can give
her cards and spades"
What kind of a hat did she wear?"
"Well, what do you carer" asked
young Bailey. people don't have to
pay to see her unless they want to. Be-
sides, she's not coming to Chicago; so
1t needn't worry you any"
But look here!" exclaimed Sweet.
trembling with the anger of his own
opinions and vexation at being contra
Gicted. what do you think of an old
damsel like this, Mrs.-Mrs.-"
Crowley" suggested Miss Guthrie.
Eyes, Mrs. Crowley, that would take
Up with a fool notion like that and go
prancing down street with her hair
clicked down on both sides, like two
zig earmuffs? Great Scott"
'Of course, I think she's foolish to
10 it," said young Bailey, "but it's
Yer hair, and not mine. 1t wouldn't
worry me any no matter how she wore
Yer hair
1T wouldn't worry me very often.
d chase her off the street If l knew
ID be arrested for it the next minute"
What kind of hat did she wear?"
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