The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-09
Observation-Disclosures
Town Tales
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young HAIL. ne Sdlu Will WlItt you
out check, as l find 1 haven't money
enough with me. am in hurry to get
down to the Union depot"
The official ticket puncher and vendor
looked at the man with establishment.
Why the idea of a stranger trying to
work the con game on him. Sadly but
firmly he murmureG, am sorry, but
l cannot accept a check without identi-
fication. l don't know YOU and 1t is
against the rules to cash checks for
strangers" The man got angry in an
instant and blurted out, why you are
too fresh altogether. l want my ticket"
The mild clerk fired up also at the epi-
tibet applied to him, and answered with
some asperity, well, whether 1 am
fresh or not, you don't get mileage
book out of this office without paying
cash for it. 1 don't know you, and that
ends the matter" The other took his
departure, and when he had left the
office, a friend IF the clerks who had
remained in the background, said,
Don't you know who that man is?"
mo, and what's more, 1 don't care"
exclaimed the irritated clerk. why
that is DR.. -" giving the name Of
we'll known physician in town. We'll,
said the other II didn't know him and
the write check game is played too
often. [ am not taking any chances with
any one"
Indeed this check business is consid-
erably overdoae. Any one can have a
check book, and according to the law
of the state, if one has had a deposit
in that bank it IS not crime to draw
a check even if there are no funds to
meet it.
The GLOWING editorial from the Buffa-
10 Commercial, under the title of Jus
tice to Advertisers" will be Of interest
to Worcester merchants:
The Commercial is called upon again
and again nowadays to give detailed and
gratuitous notice to fairs and entertain.
ments of that character, the proceeds OF
which are to be devoted to charity-an
excellent object certainly. But what Is it
that the managers of these entertainments
ask us to do? The rule generally In get
ting up these fairs is to call upon the
merchants for donations in the shape of
dolls, confectionery, writing, paper and So
called holiday goods" Then rooms are
81 cured for which no rent is paid; those
who sell contribute their services, and
then the newspapers are asked to give
free notice of the fact that the public is
invited to go to these fairs and buy the
very goods that have been freely con-
tributed, and that are sold for charity
for less than the merchants had to pay
for them Now the Commercial main
tains that the advertisers have rights that
the newspapers ought to respect, and
when the advertisers-the Buffalo mer-
chants, VINO nave DeGu LOOKING LOT BOOu
times" and have hopes of a profitable
holiday trade this year-are paying liber-
ally for space in the Commercial, we do
not see why we should make a free an
nOuncement of the fact that If the public
will only go to the fairs they will there
find holiday goods that these same mer-
chants contributed, selling for less than
what these merchants had to pay. This
is the CONNIE rcials way of looking at it,
and is our explanation for the non-ap-
pearance in our columns of the free no.
tices of goods for sale at private fairs and
other entertainments.
The life behind the scenes is apparent
in other places than the theatre. 1 had
an assignment to cover" a swell recep-
ton, and on being admitted to the house
was at once in the midst of brilliant
throng of men and women in their cor
rect evening dress. My old blue suit
was much the worse for wear, but was
not there to play the role of society for
my paper, but l was only admitted to
report the "goings on
AT the kind invitation of the host, 1
went into the dining-room where an
elaborate supper was being served by
a caterer. l looked modestly around for
a secluded corner, where I could eat in
comparative seclusion when a colored
waited touched me on the arm and said:
Yer better cum to de kitchen an hab
yore supper" Not word of protest did
I make but followed my sable guide
into the back room" where in company
with two serving maids and the coored
walters, l managed to get what was
coming to me. And yet-my Spanish
blood boiled more or less at the thought
that was not good enough for the other
people. 1t is all right and such Is life.
The coat makes the man. and if I were
in a dress suit 1 would have smiled
haughtily at the menials who served,
and they would have asked my wishes
with the utmost politeness. The average
servant as a rule is servile to his super
Tors, but delights to domineer over those
whom he considers beneath him.
A former editor Of The Spy tells this
true story: / was coming back from
Europe on a Cunarder. During the
first few days on board, I had been at
tracted by a charming American girl
and found no great difficulty in making
her acquaintance. We had some very
pleasant talks pacing the decks to-
g6ther She was as vivacious and in
telligent, 1 thought, as she was pretty
q never saw a handsomer GRID. One
day we were leaning on the rail watch
ing for something, anything to turn up
to vary the seascape Il almost said
landscape), when 1 spied school Of por-
poises.
"Oh. see," said 1. Look at the por-
poises!" She turned her lovely eyes
toward the floundering animals, and
watched them for a minute very in
tently. ooh, no." she said, finally,
those are not porpoises."
why amt they?' l asked.
"They are not PROPOSES" she said.
They do not 'porp!"
Why is everybody given to affecta-
ton when they go to photographers
to have their pictures taken? There
never was man, woman or child who
dld not put on an unnatural shipper
as soon as they got in front of a cam
era, and women are the worst offenders
by all odds. l was in a photograph
gallery the other day, never mind what
for and while I was waiting for the
man, watched the people as they came
and went. Most of them were after
pictures which had been taken some
time before and it seemed as though
not one of them was satisfied with the
WCrK OF the camera. They made all
sorts of comments about the way the
pictures looked, about the expression,
the nose and mouth, the way the hair
was mussed, and everything, just as
though the photographer was respon
slole for ones features. He hasn't
ANYTHING to do with it. All he does
is to put the plate in the machine and
press the bulb. Then he DEVELOPS the
plate and retouches the negative and y
makes the print, which Is to be toned X
spotted and mounted. That's all. (
But somehow, he doesn't have time to k
stralghten ones nose or brush ones
nam Just remember that you must X
look out for Yourself and if you are
ugly, 1t isn't the photographers fault.
ADJUSTMENTS.