The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-22

Saturday afternoons many patrons
Of Ware Pratt Co.'S shoe department
wait their turn to have their shoes
shined. AS the backing is free to pat
rons of the store who have a 50-shine
card, there are always a number Of
patient walters. A friend of mine who
certainly is a gentleman, albeit some
thing of sport and an excellent man
with the gloves, was with several
others waiting his turn. A fresh
looking dark haired youth just bios
soming out in the callow self-con-
seriousness Of adolescence was among
the number also. He had come in be-
hind my friend but had with the AFRO
CANT air of a second-year man at some
academy brushed up to the. front of
the group 1t came the turn of my
friend to ascend the high pedestal to
have his somewhat shabby shoes poll
ished for Sunday. The callow Spanish
looking youth jumped up in front and
seated himself with a glorious air of
victory in the chair. The rest looked
at him with mild establishment. Eek
cuSe me- said my friend mildly, Il
think it is my turn l have been wait
ing for some time and you have Just
come in The callow youth looked at
MIN with an attempt of disdain, and
he said gruffly: II don't know anything
about it," One of the clerks who
stood near tried to adjust matters but
IN vain. My friend was a little indig-
nant and said: We'll can pardon such
oehaVior in so young a man, evident
~ neither gentleman, nor aware of
the rules of good breeding" I don't
know anything about it. was the
parrot-lfke reply of the boor.
If 1t We're not for making a scene
l would pull you out that chair so
quick that you would not remember
you ever sat there" said my friend
merely He played on his college
eleven for two years and was account
ed bad man in a scrmmage, The
youth smiled feebly and said nothing,
When the story was told me, I was
sorry that my friend had not taken
me consequences of a little fun and
mad dragged the boor from his seat
But probably he was the wiser in nor
aolng anything, for then he too would
nave been in the wrong, and now there
Is but one and he such an ignorant
seif-suficient lout that the honors resi-
with the athlete who did not smash
him. ''''''''i
The old joke about the boys who at
tend Sunday School so regularly dur-
ing December in order to be in line fo,,
christmas presents from their beloved
teachers is now going the rounds
Another holiday joke is the persistent
sweetness of the maids to their men
Inends at this season of gift making
know a young man of considerable
means who says that girls fairly go
out OF their way to be agreeable to him.
ana II possible, they waylay him on
the street just in front of some tewelry
store. Certainly is it not beneath the
falr sex to cajole hapless men with
Well-hlled pocketbooks. 1t is not the
TACT OF blowing yourself for the sake of
winning the grateful thanks of some
dlVlnely fair creature, but it is the af-
termath, the heartless snubbing one
gets after the first glow of receiving
the costly gift has turned to the cold
ashes of a dying hearth fire.
She warbled Eye Banks and Braes"
to herself in the front parlor regardless
of the feelings of a somewhat grouty
landlord who occupied the fiat above.
Presently a rap was heard at the door
and the landlord was heard gently in
curing If anyone was in pain, and
wanted to know if he could call a
physician or do anything to help the
sufferer.
William f. Dolan. Patrick F. Nc
Partland and William Powers, students
at Baltimore Medical School, are home
for the holidays
Miss S. l. Robinson of Congress
Street, Miss Florence Whiting of Lake
View and Ralph Cutting of Newbury
Street returned from st. Lawrence Uni
versity yesterday for the Christmas
holidays.
I overheard recently a conversation
between two men, who were evidently
meat dealers in a small way, in a
suburb of the city. They took a most
pessimistic view of the position of the
small men in their line and complained
that the large dealers in the heart of
the city, with their cut rates and large
were making it diff
cult for them to do business. The least
sanguine of the pair said that the
credit business and a small business
of convenience was all that the corner
market and grocery could henceforth
expect to do. and he thought that the
market of the future would be a very
large one in the centre of the city
with sub-statiOns in the outskirts
with which it would be connected by a
parcel delivery, or possibly a service /
of pneumatic tubes. The other agreed I
in a general way that business was !
being done too close for the small |
dealer, but could not agree that the |
little neighborhood stores independent /
ly owned will never be replaced by the !
sub-statons of a central management. |