The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-26
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mingi rye always just longed to- said
Mrs Pinta, a pretty widow. I'd just
dote on seeing how the lower classes re-
ally act in theif own element!
sratified," replied Tummy De Byrde gal
iantly. 'I'll get guide who knows al
the ins and outs of the slums, and we u
start out at 10 o'clock and take IN chi
natown and then some Of the places even
"oh, how delishtfuir' cried Mrs. Pinta.
clapping her hands. And maybe I'll get
an Inspiration and see way. to 90
manly sympathy often reforms q wicked
person when nothing else can do 1t. To
like to spend the rest Of my life reform
ing the lower, classes. and the wickeder
they are the more / should enjoy re-
How sympathetic YOU are. said Tum-
my. looking at her admirinsly. Can you
She Capped her hands again and again
exclaimed. How dehghtfulv
She was ready at the time set. She
wore some Of her good clothes so as TO
impress the lower classes with vision
might see hoy nice i. 10 to be good and
respectable FUNNY De Byrde was in
the evening dress Of a. gentleman. They
did Chinatown under the wing of the
Down here underground there's a
ieper, I" said the guide. Its real leprosy,
but it's not contagious. You pay him
what you like That's the way he makes
The ieper was very bad looking Chi
naman. Indeed, ana Mrs. Pinta shuddered
and shivered and held her train very
carefully away from contact with the
SsI snss e E oa them to an Sts
lady had ever seen before except the lady
opium victims who went there 1t was
only by speciali agreement with the pro-
prietor and by paying him round tee
into the Joint. 80 he said He looked as
IL he ought to know what he was talk
ing Of the guide did, for he had a beak
like hawk and eyes that could see q
black. une white. one green. In the opium
den bleary creatures squatted around
lamps and melted their particular dope
to put Into pipes; other miserables lay
like logs in the hunks that lined the
Some o them people in there's million
aires" said the guide:
How wonderful said the lady.
THE next place I takv you to IL one
even the police don't know about" con-
tinued the guide. You must order some
refreshments just 90, nobody will think
you are any different from them
They went along a dismal hallway to
Mrs. Pinta did not mind, for the more
bad smelling the place was the more Ger
tain the lady was that she was really
tables drinking and over in q corner were
some card players. On cracked piano
a young man played Amt 1t a shame,
| a measly shamet" The tobacco smoke
was Of q quality that half strangied Mrs.
eyes, though she herself had protested
many time to Tummy that she rather
liked the odor Of a good cigar She. Turn
my and the guide sat down by table
onade. She watched the jewellers eagerly.
oh. those poor. ignorant, wicked pep
pier she murmdred to herself Il must
do something to elevate those women wiro
SIT there and drink that nasty beer 1
think I'll dress in gray like a deaconsss.
and make visits among them and tell
them Of the higher life. always looked
well In gray: No woman Is ever wholly
bad. There Is always spark Of
The back door was burst rudely open
Lock the front door and don't let man
or woman out! Arrest every one of these
here persons?' roared a hoarse voice. 1t
wore a blue uniform. All the other rude
men who had burst the door open wore
blue uniforms too.
The guide found his mind and tongue
blue creatures. "She and the gentlemen
are Summing under my care. Don't you
see she's a real lady? Don't you" =
"All hands march to the police sta.
tion!" roared the hoarse voice
Tummv protested frantically, the guide
protested angrily. Mrs. Pinta, too scared
to speak word or understand, protested
dumbly. but all was no good. Not TIL
they reached the station house was the
mistake explained and the trio permitted
to 90 free. Even the hard-hearted DO
licemen grinned' unbelievingly. A deeply
interested rabble gathered at the door
and made humorous comment on the fact
that "one Of them swell Summing par
ties" had been arrested. In next morn
ing's newspaper the gentlemanly reporter
as in duty bound appended the remark:
And the lady became hysterical.
Koth