Evening journal., 1898-03-10

BOWLING ALLEY SUNSHINE.
In a little side street.
Where Republicans meet,
And the regulars stop in and rally,
There's a shuttle of feet,
Cased in gaiters so neat,
Meath the lights above our bowling
alley.
And the balls roll asong,
Sped by laughter and song
While for Lackey dozen keep tally,
He cries, 1.-TWO fifty-six,"
Give me soda with sticks
I'm the sunshine Of our bowling
alley"
EVERY evening, up to the club I go;
All the boys and all the girls they love
me so.
I'm a dandy told you long ago
That was the sunshine Of our bowl
ing alley"
THEY BROKE UP THE PRAYER.
A couple of East Side girls are still
laughing over a little mishap which be-
fel them. and which nearly broke up
religious meeting in that section of the
-
hour but soon discovered that they
were hungry, and decided to make a
foraging tour to the dining room. The
girls were in the third story, and the
religious meeting was in progress in
the sitting-rO0m on the second floor.
They thought Il would be un-
necessary to dress as they could slip
unseen down the back stairway, which,
however, was barely out Of sight Of the
sitting-rOom door. So, silently, like two
white-robed spirits. they began the de-
scent of the back stairway, their bare
feet making absolutely no sound on the
uncarpeted steps. But alasl Scarcely
had three steps been taken when the
girl In advance stepped on a dust pan
which the servant had carelessly left
there. and girl and pan together went
to the very bottom with a clink and
n clank and rattle and bang at every
step sufficient to have aroused the
notable Seven Sleepers. A worthy bro
ther had been praying, and at the first
iangle he started and opened his eyes.
As the racket increased in volume he
hesitated. lost his connection and
finally stopped short, while the sisters
who knelt nearest the open door peer
ed curiously through their fingers and
over their chairs. They, as we'll as the
girl seated outside on the dust pan,
waited anxiously for the amen that
never came For a time a dead silence
reigned, which was softly broken by
the subdued snickering Of the two girls,
and the rustling Of their robes as they
fitted back to the floor above
A PLUCKY GIRL
Out on East Tenth street there is a
plucky girl This trait is demonstrated
by an incident which, the Wayfarer
is told, occurred a day or two ago.
She keeps house for her two brothers
whQ are railroad men, and who are nee
essarily away from home much Of the
time, both by night and by day.
On the occasion referred TO she closed
up the house and went out. When she
came back two girl friends who live
across the street, called to her that in
her absence they had seen man climb
in the house through one of the parlOr
windows. She looked at the window in
question and discovered that the blind
was up, whereas she had left it down
1t worried her considerably but she UNI
locked the door and entered. After
throwing open the lower part of the
house she armed herself with a revOl-
YER belonging to one Of her brothers
and went from the cellar to the attic
looking for the house-brealer. He was
not there. Later on she retired ant
spent the night there, her sole cOmpan,
ion being the revolver.
Next morning the girls across thl
street told her that the man who force,
his way into the house was her bro
ther, who came home Unexpectedly
found the house locked up, climbe,
through the window, dressed and wen
out again.
But it made no material difference D
the plucky girl.
THE ITALIAN DIALECTS.