The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-08
y VIEWS OF
Y A WOMAN

w lieNe YOU would do Is to dress
yourself composedly, IL the fire were ii
the night, and then give an imitation
or Il heroine by saving one or two other
| members OF the family and after that
gather mp your valuubles. taking care
10 secure certain priceless papers which
the others have forgotten ana thef
calmly descend ladder amid the
pl;tudits of the populace
What you probably will do in such
an event will be to yell like Il Conan
che Indian. tear madly about the room
| in n confused attempt to find the door
ana your clothes. and finally have to
f; be carried out araryed in "a pair CT
| party gloves and your nightie.
AS far as being the material for maxi
! ing Il heroine, there is no telling what
! any woman will do in an emergency.
! 1t is largely matter Of guessworlt as
| TO the particular direction her nerve s
! will jump. The quick restless iidgety
| woman who is always on springs Is
! just as likely to develop heroine symp-
| toms as the slow deliberate person who
| always has to take Il certain amount
! OF time to make up her mind. While
| the latter is mentally debating whether
| she shall wear her blue dress or her
! green one or whether she shall tie UP
| her jewels in a frinSed towel or carry
| them down in the ice pitcher, the
former has managed to get into some
clothcs-no matter If they may be
wrong side out--and is helping some
body else to escape. The very eXcit-
nnent and the consciousness Of being Il
prominent factor in it, sometimes seem
NJ Ep ,,-,,n ic
though TO be irresponsible, and her
alert habit of mind is found to be ex-
ceedingly valuable, while the more
quietly balanced woman will act stun
ned and helpless.
The other night there was fire when
one Of the ladies' attired herself in her
bow in her hair. Some time ago ut
IL fire a young girl was re-
moved with difficulty from her burn
ing homo. 1t was then discovered that
the only one of her possessions which
she had saved was u gilt girtlle which
she had clasped about her waist over
her night nobes. It's value was fifty
cents and it was growing tarnshed. a
costly watch and several handsome
rings were left on her dressing table.
who, on the same occasion rushed back
into the blazing house. burning his eye
brows and singing his coat, and
emerged with a birdl-cage which had
not been occupied for months: fact
of which he was perfectly well aware.
There is one man in this town who
declares that he lost the chance of
marrying an helress, when he saved
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tradition. He was a gl:ast at the same
country house and their brief acquain-
tance had resulted in mutual attraction
But one night q fire broke out and the
members of the household barely escap-
ed with their lives. The young man
broke in the door of the room occupied
by the heiress and carried her out in
her scanty attire Of the night She
screamed and howled and insisted that
he should drop her instantly. He never
saw her after they emerged from the
flames and he had placed her some
where in safety. She left before day
light and long ufterward conhded to Il
friend that she was too much humiliut-
ed by the memory Of her hysterical be- |
havior on the night Of the fire ever to
set eyes on her rescuer again for she |!
knew he must have been thoroughly |
AT last we have something which has !
stirred UP Wilkes Barre. We have |
angled more or less coyly for the dis
tingulshed attention of our sister city
for years. but the most we have thus
'ar accomplished is to have her glance
This way through her
jeweled lorgnette ana say: Dear me,
they say there is quite Il town up there.
/. myself, have never been up to see,
but | am told that some of my sons oc-
,asionally wander in that direction.
rye warned them, too, that the young
women have no grandfathers."
Well we haven't worried Very deeply
over the disdain with which we have
been treated but occasionally we throw
lut IL bit of IA bait, 1t is always some
hing lofty and exclusive. Something
With Daughter-of the Revolutionary
attachment, or i'm the way of Art
We never have baited the hook with
lnything as frivolous as Kirmess or
cake walk, but when we have had
somebody rather experienced in play
ng the piano or in singing to high c,
We have bashfully admitted the fact to
Barre, but as Il rule she has
'egarded with naughty scorn our ten-
ative attempts at pretending we We're
IN the map.
Now, however, she has all at once
'ome to realization of our existence.
rhe reason is Paderewski. Wilkes
3arre Is clamoring for diagram of
eats at the Paderewski recital and
las already arranged for special
rain. We had 10 do something YOU