Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-10-19

Human characteristics shown In the
Ways of Carrying Them.

Human characteristics shown I'm the
Ways OF Carrying Them.
Kansas City Journal: The man who
sat nearest the window said he didn't
mind the weather. 1T gives me a
chance to see how people carry their
umbrellas" he said. ~ have such firm
faith in my deductions hat I wouldn't
be afraid to choose a wife with them
for a guide
The woman on his left smiled.
I'm glad I'm not out there On the
street. she said. You'd be picking
out all the kinks in my disposition
along with the rest Of them
oh said the man, II sized o up
O. long time ago. You carry an UNI
bIella, when it's furled, just like that
woman across the street. You grab
1t in the middle and go forging ahead
with the ends Of the handle digging
into the unfortunate pedestrians who
go before and ollow after"
And what does that signify?" asked
the woman on the left.
"Alertness, activity, selfshness and
inconsiderateness."
"Um-m,' said the oma
but just look at the third woman In
the procession" said the man. II pity
the men folks about her house. I'll
warrant they have to get their own
breakfast about six mornings out of
the seven. l saw yet q woman
who dragged an umbrella along so that
you could track her by the trail of the
tip who wasn't dllatory and shiftless.
She never sews on a button. or darns
or mends, and her breakfast dishes are
seldom washed before 2 o'clock.
THAT other who is busting
along holding to the top OF the UNI
bTella handle like grim death and
pointing the top down and forward In
q kind of south-by-southwesterly d.
rection is altogether different. She
would set the world on fire IL 1t wasn't
waterlogged. / am not sure that I'd
want to be married to her either. She'll
be too energetic. She'd push every
thing before her, and when she took a
notion TO clean things up a mere man
would have nowhere to lay his head.
What she Is good for is serving on com
mittees.
THAT woman with the gray skirt Is a
yea-and-nay sort of person. She wants
to agree with everybody and follows
wherever led. Women who carry their
umbrellas with the point backward and
downward are always unassertive.
But just look at that girl who spins
along, swinging her umbrella around
in a circle as if it were a magic wand.
/ like her. She's jolly and good-natured
and gets more pleasure out Of life
than ten ordinary people. There's a
woman carrying her umbrella swung
across her shoulder like a shotgun.
She's q true soldier of fortune and was
never known to say die. / can't think
OF anything that would feaze her."
The mar paused.
And what would you say" asked
the woman, about that girl who car
ries her umbrella horizontally across
the small of her back and catches
either end into a crook Of her elbow"
We'll" admitted the man, she Is a
new one on me-. | never met her be-
! fore, but | wouldn't be afraid to wager
that she is conscientious to q degree
and has a heart as big as all outdoors.
But here" he added, comes the most
| even-tempered woman Of the lot. She
cuddles her umbrella protectingly I'M
der her arm as if she doesn't want ever
it to get hurt in the crowd. That wo-
man is gentle and thoughtful and
kind"