The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-14
VIEWS OF THE TRAIN BOY.
BOOKS IN THE LIGHT OF HIS En-
PERIENCE.

Persons who Buy-Men Good Gus
toners - Not Very Enthusiastic
Over WOmen-SOme Fresh Criti-
cism on Current WOrks-Judging
Tastes by Personal Appearances.
From the n. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
"Davud Harm! Richard Carv'l! All the
latest books here. Read Mum 5 John
Street, ma'am?"
The girl with the blond curs and the
caramels did not raise her eyes from her
magazine. The fussy old gentleman who
was figuring glared across from his oppo-
site chair. insulted at his interrupted cal
culation. And the woman in front, find
ing her own book exceptionally stupid,
concentrated to make friends with the
blue-nosed train boy.
What have you?" she asked
The tired train boy glowed He sat
down on the sofa before her in the chair
car and shifted the heroic proportion of
gum. Then he fell into discourse about
the women, and especially the men, on
board trains who buy books, and what
sort of books they do buy, and to his own
satisfaction why they do. And at last
the girl in front saw what a wonderful
genius a train boy has TO be and how, if
his literary criticism is thing to upset
the gravity of gods, his business ability
is thing to leave them envious.
Amt you read Richard Carvel?" he
asked opening the book
Richard Carvel?' repeated the woman
in front evasively. What is it like?"
We'll, now" said the boy with the blue
nose, frankly, search me. AS a usual
thing l try to skim these things over. SOS
talk ahOut 'pD1 n
this here l amt needed to. | know it's
about a young dub that knew Washing
ton, and girl that wore a bunch of dried
up flowers on the inside of her coat, and
the rest have got powder heads and such
It's quite long book"
And what's David Harum?" dissembled
the young woman. Have you read
that?"
Sure, I've read that" assented the
train boy. 1T amt no story-an' I can't
honestly recommend it," he said in a
burst of confidence, for all they say
about it. The only really iuterestin thing
in it's about circus a rich fellow took a
Kid to, and then nothin' come of it, The
least you looked for was to see the kid
run off with the circus II did sell
though" he added, ANY man most'd buy
it."
Amy mann" repeated the woman in
front. Didn't women buy it?"
Inc tram BOY rested MS elbow on the
top of his pile of books and looked across
gray meadows and gave of his experience.
Nope" he said; take it as rule, and
women don't buy. l dent know why IT
Is. OF course. a lot of EN- get aboard
with a magazine or lookout nine out Of
ten Of EN- don't read them. They either
set with the book open on their laps
starin cut the window, or else they pull
the curting down an look at nothin'. Oh
it's that way on every run I've had A
woman amt no payin' party on a train
just as she amt no tippin' party Choc-
olate creams make her SICK she most al
ways drags fruit out of her own valise.
she carries her own smellin' salts. she
can't be hired to buy a book o. views. an
she won't read or else she brings her own
readin'. They're poor customers" said the
train boy, sweepngly.
"And men?" asked the woman.
"Oh, men are all right" proclaimed the
train boy, Loyalty. They'll buy you out
regular-if you don't hit a crspy old goat.
like the one with the coach-dog nose down
there, figgerin. Take 'em in pairs an
they amt no good, though II they know
somebody on the train TO talk to thew
won't buy. But "A man travelin' alone can
be got 70 buy pretty nearly everything
you've got to- offer-exceptn' smelin'
salts and chocolate creams. Children
keep the candy from spoilin' on our
hands, and men do the rest"
what kind OF books do they buy
mostY' asked the woman In front
Love sa tho train boy promptly.
Lover echoed the woman. mot real
~? Love stories?'