The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-10
TROUBLE ALL THE WAY UP.
Bought 'Hobson's Choice" Downtows
Landed In . Hospital Uptown.

Bought . '.Hobson's Choice" Downtown
Landed In . Hospital Uptown.
The nurse adjusted the bandase OF
the patients head In one Of the ward!
Of big hospital uptown and then sh'
said:
Nov you may tell me how 1t hap
pened, II you will promise to be yer!
quiet"
well, you know Monday was {
warm day." be began, so went into
store and told the man I wanted te
buy straw hat. He picked up one
put 1t on my head and he says, That's
the hat you want just that way.
said l would like to look at others
He said he had others, but insisted on
my taking the one he had put on my
head. l asked him If there was any
thing the matter with that hat and he
said no, but it was the one he picked
out for me as soon as he saw me come
in. It's Hobson's choice he said.
'Whose?' says. 'Hobson's' he says.
said l didn't know him. Then he said
everybody was saying it. Said 1t was
a fad, or something like that, and II l
wanted to be strictly In It. 1 would
take the hat and If anybody said any
thing to me about II should say 1t
was Hobsons choice, and the drinks
would be on the other fellow. So /
paid him $3.50 and went away under
the new hat.
When l was going up the steps at
Park place station l met an acquaint-
ance who says, Where did you get it,
I wanted to be sure he meant the hat,
and says, Where did I get what?
The She'd he says. That threw me
off. asked him what he meant and
he pointed to the headpiece and says,
That. You look like a calf under a
new She'd he says. That's one Of
Hobson's,' I says. Which is?' he
says. The hat u.s. says. I didn't
know Hobson was In the hat business
he says. Which one Of them?' | says.
Then he laughed and poked me and
says, Which one are you talking
about?' Honest says, It's Hob.
sons II It's Hobson's,' he says, you'd
better take 1t back to him and tell
him to give you your old one' You
don't seem to know about IT, I says
and then l told him about how every.
body was talking about Hobson. He
looked at me and says, You'd better
take something for it,
And then says, All right, come
on and we went into the first place
and we stood there quite a while and
when we went out l found it had cost
me about a dollar, and he hadn't paid
anything. /
so l left him and came on uptown,
thinking all the way up. Two men
were on the seat in front of me. ]
couldn't hear all they said, but one Of
them remarked as his station was call.
ed that he s'posed 1t was Hobson's
choice.
Then looked at my hat to see II
1t was all right. 1t seemed as if 1t was
wv oihoii, puI put IL DdCh anu went
on to Forty-second street, where got
off and went into a lunch place, where
met another acquaintance. Pretty
soon he says, That was brave thing
for Hobson to do. I said yes. You
heard about it?' he says Yes
says, and it has cost me $3.50, and
you will please sell your gold bricks
to somebody else,' says. Don't take
me for fool all the time, l says
You must be crazy he says. 7 got
no gold brick he says. I'm talking
about the brave man who sunk his
ship in the harbor.' What's his
name? I says. 'Hobson, he says,
Then I got up and took my hat from
he peg and showed it to him and
rays, DO you see the hat?' He said
Yes Well says, that's Hobson s.
He looked at 1t and says, Why don't
you wear your own hat? What are
you doing he says, wearing Hob.
IONS hat? And then I hit him. And
when l came to was here"