The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-28

Town Tales
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A young friend of mine has just un-
dergone a remarkable experience in the
gastronomic line His people left the
city quite suddenly, which reduced him
to the necessity of seeking a tempo
rary home elsewhere. He advertised
his wants and found no trouble in To-
eating himself with a childless couple
on a very good street, indeed, living in
rather old-fashioned, but substantial
house. Desiring to makehimself at home
for several weeks, until his people
should return he paid the score in ad
vance. And that's where he made 2
fatal error. Il am naturally fond of
eggs" he said, and was delighted with
my first mess of fresh eggs. For din
ner that night l had more eggs, and
the next morning we had eggs for a
change. l don't want to weary you
by telling you how often l committed
fowl murder during those memorable
weeks, but my regular diet, as far as
1 was able to subsist upon it, was eggs,
eggs, and yet eggs. With the aid of
the downtown restaurants, l managed
to live. Why didn't 1 leave the place?
Oh. I wanted to punish myself for be-
ing such chump as to pay for what
l hadn't got, and I wouldn't crafty the
egg family by moving before my time"
They were discussing the moral OBJ
legation of man either to marry the
woman whom he so singled out with
his attentions as to deter Others or to
cease his attentions, and one of the
party quoted a curious incident ef the
present. Il know a young woman"
he said, now perhaps thirty years old,
hn hzc fq~ txrrQl re roll
ly understood to be the choice of
young man who occupies a responsible
position, and whose people move in po-
lite society. He is constant caller,
and for many years no other man has
paid the girl any attention, her affec-
lions being very evidently engaged by
her friend. Still he has never said a
word that could lead any one to believe
that he means to propose marriage to
her. The young woman's father is in
a quandary. He fears to bring about
a rupture if he insists on an eXplana-
ticn by the young man, and if he doesn't
there is no way of telling how long
this queer courtship is yet to last
What's to be done?"
The iewelry stores never offered
prettier things than are exposed for
sale at present. Card cases and cigar
cite safes of gun metal are all the rage,
and range all the way from S. to $50.
Indian jewelry is much in evidence,
consisting of arrow heads mounted as
pins, and arrow head belt buckles, set
into enameled gold. Silver chatelaine
bags. heavy enough to satisfy any seek
er after the solid, can be had anywhere
from $50 to 500, while a wide range
of beautifully mounted scarabs-the
scarabaeus made immortal By Edgar
Allan Poe--is marked between SIS and
S75 Then there are Trieder glasses,
magnifying to seventy-five diameters
and carrying seventy-fve miles, and
knock-down opera glasses to fold into
fiat pocket. Fine diamonds are in
great demand for rings, but there is
not much sale for pin or earring set
tings.
An immense crowd gathered on Main
street yesterday near the court house,
and l hurried up, expecting to find
some mangled form lying on the ground
surrounded by a plying throng
drew near and To- the commotion was
caused by the process of putting a
telegraph or electric light pole into the
ground 1t was wonderful, the way the
crowd watched the operation. They
offered all kinds of advice, and seemed
to feel their presence was absolutely
necessary to the completion of the job.
/ thought how little it takes to interest
the passer by, how easily he can give
UP his own business to superintend the
business Of others. Quite few took
SO much interest in the hole -digging,
that they felt it incumbent upon them
to ask the boss just what was being
done. and how long it would take, and
how many men were employed, and if
they belonged to a union.
Curiosity is not only a characteristic
of women, for the ordinary man seems
well endowed with that ardent desire to
know what is going on.