The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-09
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she that received was poor and brown
with the soil OF earth and an unlovely
life, but surely the dear Lord saw and
will remember.
Tuesday afternoon the governors
party, after spending a few days at
Glen Summit, boarded the Pennsylva-
mia train at Wilkes-Barre en- route
for Harrisburg. There was a merry
group of ladies in the company and
the beautiful ride to Sunbury was
passed swiftly, enlivened by their
| laughing chat. At this station
| change was made and the governor
| and his friends left the car to await
| the Harrisburg train. AS they were
| moving out, one of the ladies noticed
| a Hungarian woman with two little
children sitting in the silent, stolid
| fashion characteristic of her race and
| with the sort of indescribable pathos
often seen on the faces of these alien
| creatures of burden. The lady passed
| on, then hesitated and turned swiftly
| back to the seat occupied by the wo-
| man, whom she questioned as to her
| destination, but as the other could
| speak no English 1t was with difficulty
| that the friendly inquirer could make
| herself understood and the train was
| about to start At last the lady saw
the ticket and that it was for Harris
bury and she hurried the poor mother
| out of the car, assisting with her own
fair hands in carrying the wailing
babies. Her kindly offices did not
| cease here, for she saw her charges
safely on the right train, finding per-
haps small reward in the heavy coun-
tenance of the woman, or the sus-
picious glanches of the little ones.
Not her affair, of course. 1t was not
even the affair of the train officials.
People who travel surely should be
able to know how to reach their desti-
nation. What did it matter if one
poor Hungarian mother friendless and
| alone in a strange land, should find
herself far out of her course, uncertain
in her poor bewildered brain as to
what to do and vaguely alarmed for the
safety of her little children? Such
people should not ride on railway
trains. The lady with her tender heart
did not think of all this, and her
graceful deed to the brown sister of a
foreign race touched many looker-on.
If there is anybody in the world be-
| SlueS our poor DOyS III Subd LOT NIlOHl
my deepest sympathies are aroused
these hot days. it is for the girl clerk
in a dry goods store. Probably the
men clerks have feet that are weary
and collars that are limpy and bodies
that ache when the long days work is
done, but they have rather the best of
it, for they don't seem to suffer as
much reproach from women custom
| oirlS thpra'c No II
in denying the fact that women shop
pers are very trying in hot weather.
Sometimes it seems that they take out
all their ill-temper and general dis
comfort from over heat on the unfor-
tunate clerk who serves them. The
way a woman nagged a poor tired
looking girl the other afternoon in a
big store down town was enough to
J exasperate a saint and there are few
hot weather saints. She scolded be.
cause she couldn't find an impossible
, shade of ribbon in the city and she
snapped when the girl, after a long
, | laborious search, was unable to match
| an absurdly narrow piece of lace
Then she grew downright abusive
? when the clerk told her the price OF
dotted yelling, and finally she fiouncet
;, off with the parting information thai
she would go somewhere else wher,
she could get better service. Then tn,
I girl wearly climbed up fy-fashion OF
2 the edges Of the shelves, miracously
l holding fast with one hand, as sh,
: slowed away heavy boxes, which haC
! been pulled down to satisfy the lat,
y non-buyer's whims. l know l SHOULD
! have SHE'D one of them at her head al
sne disappeared. That woman needed
amazingly to have somebody give he
a reversible portrait of herself.
But it isn't always from the patrol
that the clerk suffers the most tyranny
l witnessed the brow-beating given
. pretty girl by an individual vestec
: with brief authority the other morn
ing, that few shrewish women coult
surpass. He wasn't a proprietor, onl,
h some sort of little boss or other in
big store, and he was leading the clerl
p behind the counter a life of it, as tn
process of inventory progressed. II
v was a handsome enough fellow an
looked as if he might be agreeabl
when the occasion demanded, but thi
seemed not to be his opportunity. TIL
young woman was apparently doin
r her best to facilitate matters, but h
was as snappy and disagreeable as
: she were his wife, which hard fate sh
had, however. escaped. She came /
for enough effects of his underbreed
ing, but another girl who happened {
pass in his vicinity had the ill-fortun
to attract his attention. He called I
her exactly in the tone a harsh ma
would use to a disobedient dog. Sh
fastened to him and he proceeded (
I Jaw" Now Jaw" isn't a lady-lik
word, but it's the only one that seem
to apply to the language he employed
She was fair little maid, but the ros
color left her cheeks and she locke
frightened and almost fearful. "Ir
deed, l didn't do that, Mr.. -" sh
exclaimed, as he finished his trad
delivered in an indescribably insult
ing manner. He waived her away wit
a majestic air, and l have no doul
that she dropped tears around anon
the shirt waists the remainder of II
day. 1t would have been such satii
faction to have given him a resounC
ing cuff on the ears, but that wouldn
have been dignifed, and, besides,
was none of my business or yours.
don't suppose this was an occasion Il
), the cup of cold water, and yet som,
how / fancy that the gentle lady
the governors party would have paus,
to give Mr.. Scod little plain talk {
kindness. / wonder II the cup of co
, water couldn't be used lavishly tn
summer by the stay-at-homes in the