Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-13
THEIR SILENCE.
ie Eloquent ing OF Brooklvpl
Ca Conversation ~


| Ca Conversation.
| A Brooklyn street car is a nlacl
| social intercourse. There's alwaI
neighborly air about the crowd
| personal and social matters arc
| cussed across the length Of the car
! cheerful frankness. One nigbt L
week two passengers and the condnf
! had Brooklyn car all to themsoII
One of the passengers was a nroI
| girl, who ought to have had III
| crowd to admire her. She was IA
and young and on good terms WA
the world. The other passsna1
! wished she would laugh, so he coSs1
verify his prediction that she had din1
pies.
At Montague street four young man
in evening clothes boarded Tia a..
The pretty girl wasn't lost upon +bor,
Each one tried to win look from be-,
but she was properly demure. Then
after the fashion Of very young men
they went to work to entertain bar
out they scintillated in vain ,la
| seemed quite unconscious of their a.
forts. At last their talk driftoi
\ around to comment on a girl who w,s
| visiting at the house where thew All
been calling.
did you ever see a girl 81
changed?" asked the loudest one NJ
the quartette. "She used to be a pears
before she taught school, but she
gone the way of all the schoolma ans
Teaching will spoil any nice girl Ia
six months. Never knew it to fail.
Right you are, my boy" agreed
one of his friends. "The Lord deliver
! me from school teachers. l can tell
one a mile Off
"All schoolmaams look alike to me"
hummed the third young man. The
fourth fellow didn't say anything. He
seemed, like the passenger in the cor
ner, TO be wondering about the dim
pies.
"They all get the look" went on thq
loud talker. Sort Of thin Tipped
snappy look; and no matter If they
have been awfully jolly, they forget
how
Eyes, and they make a chap feel
deuced uncomfortable if they vera
going to be told to stay after school or
stand in corner"
"They forget how to dress we'll, too.
Did you ever notice that" inquired the
musical young man. They give up
wearing soft, pussy cat things and tie
to linen collars and cuffs and alpine
hats. Now, what / like is pretty,
stylish girlish girl" This with fer
tive glance at the specimen across the
aisle.
The car stopped and an elderly man
and woman came in. A CLEAN flashed
across the pretty girls face. She
leaned forward. smiling sweetly.
Good evening Mrs. Allen, she said
distinctly, but with a queer little tire
NOR in her voice. I'VE miss Kate
dreadfullv at school She is one OF
NV favorite pupils. you know, and 7
shall be so glad when she IS we'll
enough to come back
Mrs. Allen gave an account OF Kate >
state of health. Then a rich, timex
silence descended upon the car. Three
voung men examined their patent
feathers carefully. The passenger ia
the corner disappeared behind his pa
ner. The pretty girl drew her huHy
wrap about her, gave a touch TO her
picture hat and motioned to the con-
ductor. The car stopped and she step
ned out into the night, but as she
passed the man in the corner sAa
treated him to a smile that left no
doubt as to the existence OF those DIM
pies. ..4 -
cbumps. now. aren't you?" said num-
Der four, who had kept still-Ae"
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