The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-29
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on to pass and when neither turned up
she leaned forward and directed another
paralyZing stare at the lonely young wO-
man, who wriggled miserably and wished
she had stayed at home.
For the first five minutes every time
that footsteps came down the aisle the
bachelor girl looked around in eager hopes
that some one would come to fill the seats
near hers; but finally, she resigned her
self to conspicuous isolation and just about
that time two men took the seats directly
in front of her.
Il don't believe it," said one Of them
Sampson isn't fool enough to run into
such a trap"
At that the girl pricked up her ears. She
hadn't known that startling news was
afloat that evening, and she was a wild
enthusiast on war matters
But wouldn't 1t be CHASTITY state of
affairs If it should prove true?" said the
other man.
The bachelor girl listened breathlessly,
but not clue did they give her. If she
had been man she could have asked what
they had heard. For a moment she had a
wild idea of asking anyway; but she fear
ed that would shock the men and throw
the gray-haired lady into commissions; so
she sat still and tried to look unconscious,
while her curiosity seethed and boiled. She
hasn't yet found out what those two men
were talking about; for, though She
bought every paper IN SlSnL on ner way
home, there wasn't bit Of war news In
any of them
When the play began the bachelor girl
hoped she would cool down and comfort
ably forget herself, but a man behind her
cleared his throat necessarily and wo-
man creaked an ashmatic fan, and to any
one in the girls state of nerves those two
things were maddening. She sat through
the act but when the intermission came
and the men flocked out for drinks She
picked up her coat and hat and Joined
the outgoing tide, and as she scrambled
into the aisle the old lady's gray hair
| rose in horror and the departing girl
comment Such an instance of the total
| depravity of the modern girl was too much
| for the charity of the earlier generation.
The bachelor girl wanted to go home,
| but she thought of the money she had
| spent for a ticket and wavered. Finally she
| walked up TO an usher and asked If she
| might change her seat.
| There's a man down there who annoys
me dreadfully," she added, plaintlvely.
The usher squared his shoulders and but
! toned his coat. Evidently he was man
! of prompt and decisive action.
! (Which is the man who was rude to you,
madame?" he said, with grim determine
ton.
The girl saw the mistake and gasped.
"Oh l didn't mean he had been rude to
me-" she exclaimed, hastily. He just
cleared his throat"
An expression of unutterable disgust set
! tied upon the ushers face.
We'll, l don't know that I can put
! gentleman out for clearing his throat he
said with fine scorn But you can change
your seat" Then he walked over to where
a fellow usher stood and relieved his feel
! ings by emphatic remarks about women,
while the young woman humbly slipped
into a seat beside a mild old gentleman,
| and wreStled with tendency toward hys-
terra. She downed the hysteria, but, during
the second act, when stage pathos grew
pronounced, she found, to her amazement
that large tears were rolling down her
cheeks. She couldn't remember ever hav-
ing cried over play, and this one WASH
especially moving; but, In spite OF herself,
she cried softly persistently. and daobed
furtively at her eyes with wet wad or
handkerchief. 1t was too absurd.
When the curtain fell again the bachelor
girl once more picked up her coat and hat
and fled; but this time she didn't stop I'M
til she had reached her own room, ana
there she sat down and had the hysterical
attack which had been postponed.
Now she advises her girl friends If ever
they should feel blue and bored to try GO
ing alone to the theater. It's a cheerful
way of spending an evening, and quite IN
nocent and proper, but as to the comfort
of 1t, that depends upon ones early edu-
cation, and the degree of ones emancipa-