Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-06-02
betraying considerable anxiety.

betraying considerable anxiety.
You bet they did" replied the iani-
tor. "Mr. Wasserman, did you ever
know a woman to take a snub and not
try to get even?"
''Vhell. / vhas.in der grocery pees-
ness, you see. und l don't know mooch
about snubS."
Exactly. but you can take my word
for it. 1t was MT an hour before the
Countess Divito put on her hat and
went out, and she was hardly home
again when a department store srealn
delivery wagon came sailing up to leave
a bundle for her. Shed gone out and
bought five yards of calico and o 500
cent rug, and the package was a big one
Lord. Lord, but you ought to have see1
the excitement on our block. Wht
the Countess appeared at her window
the mob cheered her, and a hundre4
ids stood on their heads. II McMurphy
had been around, / believe | could have
got a raise of wages out of him. l got
a peep at Mrs. o'Sullivan. and her tears
were falling like rain"
"Und she vhas ~crushed?" queried the
grocer, with a note of sympathy.
Crushed to earth. Mr.. wasserman.
beaten at her W game. Yes, the
countess was ahead, but she had the
darby to reckon with. Mrs. T~orrington
isn't one Of the kind to take a back
seat, and / knew by the look on her
face that she was figuring on how To
even up things. By and by she went
out, and five minutes after her return
two district messenger boys called 1t
the door for her. One had a bigg boh-
quet mad a bottle OF champagne. anf
the other had a pail Of ice cream and
an angel cake"
"Und vhas dere some excitement, Mr..
Sprocket?"
81 should remark! Why, the street
bubbled till two cops had to clear II
with their clubs, and somebody turned
in a fire alarm and brought out five en-
gines. 1t was the unanimous opinion
OF our whole block that the darky had
knocked the spots off the sun and was
the swaggerest thing in our part of the
town. She appeared at her window
and bowed and bowed, and II II hadn't
been for the police we'd have had a
band out. It's the duty OF the ~janitor
especially a ~janitor with the asthma,
to remain neutral when there's a row
on between tenants, but / can't help
but chuckle over the way she saved he
day"
"Und don't nopody do nottings
more?'
That wasn't the end. OF course. When
Tim O'Sullivan came off his coal cart
that evening and heard the story. he
put on a big plug hat he hadn't worn
for ten years and promenaded up and
down and talked OF the postoface box
he was going to rent next day, but the
crowd was cold hearted. After Count
Divite had run him banana cart into the
basement and eaten his supper he put
on a clean calico shirt and lit a nickel
cigar and said he expected an alder
man around to see him, but It was no
go. That bottle OF champagne, to say
nothing of the ice cream and the bou-
quet. had done the business. The darby
Is away ahead to-day, but OF course
Mrs. O'Sullivan and the countess won't
let things rest where they are"
But nopody Will be killed." sol
EMMY asked the grocer.
NO, it probably won't com to that
unless the husbands take a hand in,
and they've kept out OF the rows thus
far. It's my opinion that in a day or
two Mrs. O'Sullivan will take her kids
for a ride on the street car, but II she
does the countess will go on a steam
boat excursion. and Mrs. Torrington
will buy a pair OF roller skates and take
W 1lc iODls Ifuhl&AA A&bNAI IN a NNNtA
thing, Mr.. Wasserman."
Yes, | pellet she yhas. but I don't
like some quarrels. vhas 1t something's
to me IL my neighbor vhas better OF
ash me? WAS IT something's TO my
wife il somepody else has better
clothes? vhas It something's TO nopoby
What anybody does all der timer /
like to be in some swim myself. und I
like my wife to be some swaggsr. but
do pellet I sell oudt all my twendy-
Ave cent sardines for twendy rent a
box dot we may haf de style for ono
day? OF course not. IND now you
take a box Of strawberries home NIT
you und speak to dose womans und tell
EN- dot vanity vhas vanity und brings
somcpody TO der p~oo-house at last"
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