The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-27
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NnEAR kind lady" said nice man
| the other day, Il do wish you'd
| warn inoffensive and we'll
meaning mankind regarding a subject
! which has caused me much mental an
| guish, to quote "A divorce application.
shouldn't say anything about it but
| really ] think other fellows who have
| not had the same sad experience may
profit little by mine.
THE warning have to utter is this: :
Whenever YOU feel an impulse to do a
| kind act; don't do it, I'll specify. The
other day | was in an open car and
| in the next seat in front was girl
with an open work dress on. that is
| she had one of those lacy things over
| her neck and arms that might as well
| have been nothng-the lace might,
mean. Naturally looked at her, that
was why she wore the lacy things of
course, and about the time | began
to look a queer kind of a bug-every
thing TO me Is bug-ex ept mosquito.
In that case I'm like the English guard
on the train, who was called upon to
| decide as to the animals to be ad-
mitted to the baggage compartment.
|
ously, 'and cats is dogs, but turkle
| is an insect,'so to Inc all the other
six-lcgged creatures are bugs. sus-
| pect | should call them beetles but
! Don't, they're plain bugs.
This one wasn't so plain, however.
He had guady green stripes down his
back and more eyes than fall to the
lot of a plain bug. He was having a
beautiful time exploring the pattern
of that girls lace across her shoulders.
once in a while he'd slip off the eros
sing and put scratchy looking fore
foot on the girls flesh. Then she'd
| squirm a little but she didn't know the
bug was there and he liked the situ-
alton. Nobody could blame him OF
course. felt that it was my duty to
knock him off | tried to do it and he
| grabbed fast with his two front feet
and kicked up the rest of them in
derision. | brushed harder, and the
girl turned round and glared at me,
and looked as if she wanted to call the
| police. | tried to explain and just
then another friend of the first bug
alighted on her back and began picking
| his way across preCarously. lnVolun-
tairly | brushed him off too, and
|
stood up and remarked vociferously,
What are you trying To do, sir? Don't
| you dare to put your arm around me. "
mo, | don't" | answered timidly,
| and then with more determination. Il
don't want to, ] assure you but there
were bugs" even that didn't molify
| the young woman but seemed to en-
rage her still more, as I continued. I'm
| | | n
| tarantula and four centipedes crawling
on that holey dress of yours shouldn't
move a finger to prevent them" and
then she began to apologize just as
reached my corner"
80 now" added the speaker, II want
TO say that you don't get thanked for
telling women that there's anything
wrong about their make up. They'd
rather break their necks on a yard of
braid hanging from their skirts than to
be informed of its presence. They
don't like to have you tell 'em when
| their dresses don't gee in the back or
when their shoes are united. Why il
| you'd tell a man that his tie was
| climbing up in the back or that a
| price mark was stll clnging to the
| left shoulder of his coat Uhe most en-
barassing thing in the world, you know
he'd almost fall on your neck with
gratitude, but women, they're queer as
the deuce"
"Yes women are queer" said the
post Office man, He didn't know any
thing about the relevancy of his re-
marks as compared to the other person
| quoted above. but he had his views of
queerness. After all its only a matter
of the point Of view.
The post office mans point of view
| was this, "the women, they come in