Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-07-14

arms as " i as the click" click" of
whalehone unlo1sening, and III very
agony OF conservation closed my eyes
so tight. that my eyeballs rolled around
innume~able stars.
4 vowed and declared wouldn't look.
but nevertheless | did open my eyes
again, more however Ia relieve the ten
sion consequent upon having shut them
SO tightly.
thought II | ever get out of this
alive. I'll carry a large assortment OF
salf-at-teaching bolts and bars with me
in the future" and ms the continual
swish and rustic denoted that the dis
rObing' act was still In progress, ! be-
gan to grow exceedingly indignant.
Here was the privacy and sanetity of
my statcroom invaded by some female
as ruthlesslv and remorselessly as OF
poor man could never feel the blush
Of shame mantlng his cheeks. or as
| II Il poor man could never have II wife
to threaten him with divorce on the
mere suspicion of such a condition OF
affairs
thoroughly desperate. for
/ thai alarming process before reiefred to
had now approached the point. where
If any thing was to be dome 10 arrst
/ It's further progress before the lady dis
covered she was not alone would bet
ter he done 1T once This was easy to
J think bnt hard TO accomplish. did not
want to bring the discovery on her SO
4 suddenly thai she would scream out
aud have everybody on board awaken
! ed by cries Of There's man in my
room" And | was so sorry she hadn't
| looked under the bed (the lower herthD,
as most women do. when she first came
/ In. for then she would have seen my
.;alise. aud that might have saved the
situation.
The last straw was when corset
came sailing up ard hit mo on the
| face i felt there was limit to human
/ endurance.
No strange lady could come into my
stateroom with a bang OF the door.
awake me out OF refreshing slumber,
4 proceed to calnly undress without the
slightest consideration of my bushes,
| and lastly slap a corset In my face
without some protest on my part.
Hem. huh" coughed softly; no
good: "Ahem," iouler as raised no
| slightly, but fell back again nearly
| smothercd. for every blessed thing that
woman had taken off came sailing up
| in the air, and descended on my devoted
head; she had stopped down; gathe,
ed them up IN one armful. and with one
amazonian fling had started them on
their mad career
was busy the next few minutes,
picking garters and hosiery out of my
eyes, pettieoats and other articles OF
female wearing apparel OFF my head;
wondering all the time why my cough
ing. and the noise ! made in tunnelipg
ont of that dry goods avalanche, had
not aroused her; and the paralyzing
conviction was borne in on me that
she must be deaf"
4 could understand and account for
many amazing things, but / could not
understand why that woman persisted
in throwing everything she took off ON
the top berth; it made me ravipg. es-
pecially when number four shoe took
me on the tip of my nose. and It's fei
low grazed chronological bump on the
centre of my scalp.
Frantic" about expresses the state
was in by this time, and had Jus. made
up my mind to say in loud tone Mad
am" when heard bump and a thrmp
and a rustic and Madam was in the
lower berth and under the blankets.
simply lay still and sizzIled In
about five minutes ] heard a move 50
loud. so long, so deep. that every In.
dividual hair on my head seemed to
raise up in frantic protest: But she's
asleep, now I can escape" reflected;
accordingly ] got one leg out from un.
der the bed clothes. and squirmed and
edged over to lower it down. the lady
turned over towards that dangling leg, |
and that leg dangled there no longer. |
The snoring keeping up, I tried again. |
and had succeeded in getting firm foot |
hold on the side rail OF the lower berth;
when-''Merciful heavens / gasped |
the lady had set Up in bed | fingered
not. one flying bound and / was at the |
door out Of 1t. and running for my life, |
and such passengers as had not yet
retired enjoyed whatever sensation the