The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-08-09

and they began To arrive at O'CLOCK.
1t was a proud moment In the life or
the O'Sullivans when the procession be-
gan 10 move, and three OF Tins coal
yard friends marched at the head. DO
you 90 much in society. Mr.. Wasser-
MANI"
"Nhell, | goes NIT my wife to some
summer gardens once in some whiles."
That's society. of course. but not
the swaggerist sort. You ought 10
have seen our crowd. If as janltor
felt that | WAS bigger than an alder
man. what must Ia q been the pride
and dignity Of the OSullvans? There
was the secondhand furniture man
and his wife. the carpet cleaner and
his wife, the fish man and his daugh-
tiers, the chair Gamer. the pawnbroker,
the secondhand clothier and a dozen
others. and they were all rugged out in
their best and had their Fifth avenue
bows and scrapes."
"Maype IL vhas better dan some Buff
falo Bill showsY' suggested the grocer.
1T beat 'em all hollow, and | was go
ing around with my chest swelled out
and stepping high when | suddenly re-
membered that | hadn't been invited.
Yes, sir, as true as you live | had been
left out. I'd helped Mrs. O'Sullivan 10
arrange everything. and then she'd Civ
Ell me the throwdown. I'd just felt the
jar to my feelings when | caught sight
of the Countess Divito pacing up and
down the lower hall with a stiletto in
hand
"'Whata you tinka, eh?" she said TO
me. Data woman give grande party
and leaVa me outa-me. de Countess
Divlto Ha. ha"
And | went up stairs and found the
colored Mrs. Torrington pacing up and
down with razor in her hand, and she
said to me:
"'Janitor, I'Ze bin giben de cold
snub, an TZe gwine to slash somebody
wild dis razor if dey don't look out
"Some troubles vhas coming, eh?"
asked the grocer.
For sure. You may socially snub
janitor with the asthma, and he is
obliged TO put up with it, but when you
socially snub woman then beware.
I saw that | would get my revenge
without mixing in. and / went down 20
my room i'm the basement and waited"
"Und did something's happen, Mr..
SprocketT
"You bet your grocery, Mr.. Wasser-
man! Yes. sir, that grand reception
wasn't an hour old when somebody
wanted to know if beer and lemonade
and ice cream and cheese sandwiches
wouldn't double up a dog, and he was
Knocked down for parvenu. That
started the row. and | sat there with
my asthma until they had broken the
windows. smashed the doors and were
larruping each other through the halls.
and the patrol wagon took 22 of 'em
to the station at once. That's what
comes Of snubbing a janitor.'
"Und dot party vhas broke in two"
"She was"
"Und eaferpody goes to shail?"
'The whole gang"
"Und Mrs. O'Sullivan don't be in dot
swim?'
Not a swim, Mr.. Wasserman. In
stead or going TO the top or society
she's dropped clear down to the foot,
or, as Mrs. Divito put it:
"'Data swella lada from Ireland,
she TAXA a rida in de patrol wag.'
"Nhell, dot vhas shust how | pellet"
said the grocer as he wrapped up two
cucumbers and handed them 10 the
janitor. IF somepody vhas swell he
vhas all right, but if he Wasn't swell
und can't be swell it vhas no use to
swell around und bust himself to pieces
und get some free rides to dot police
station" Nj. QUAD.