The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-10-11
VIEWS OF
Y A WOMAN

THEY SAY that this is the shop
pest" town under the sun. There
/ may he others, but for keeping
peoples business affairs in fond re-
membrance, Scranton beats them all.
or course. the very name OF our city
calls to mind the coal strike, and tina t
is about the sole topic of conversation
row, yet in our normal condition we
are entirely too satisfied to talk shop
exclusively. Surely they don't do so
much OF it IN some places. You may
meet a man in society any number of
times and never hear a word said about
his occupation. but here about the first
inquiry made is: What does he do"
And then we proceed to bore him with
ii.
10 be sure everybody but the people
on strike do something in this town.
The lawyers. the bankers, the mechan-
les. the doctors, and in fact. every
body else, work like beavers. and ma
turally there is something to talk about
when they are IN the vicinity. so we all
talk to them Of the things they have
been doing all day.
tering to the subject. but on the whole
ii must he rather the contrary. since it
argues that they don't know anything
besides. | should think they'd get
tired OF their vocation in life and take
Ia something else. IL not to drink.
Ina Sne the unalloyed bliss it must he
for dentist vino has been worrying
along with sick and nervous women all
day. To have all his friends and ac-
quaintances greet him out Of office
hours with pleasant illusions to his
practice and often with complaints
about the last work he did for them.
Frequently he is entertained with
choice descriptions of the way a GER
tain tooth feels and with the assurance
that nobody IN the world ever had such
sensitive nerves. | don't at all wonder
that dentists as a rule do nor seem 10
he consumed with yearning for soce-
ty life, Physicians have the same ex-
perience. Their feminine acquantances
regard all non professional glimpses of
"A doctor as So many opportunities for
finding out what he knows about the
ailments of their friends and for con-
fding to him their own physical ills.
Physicians are not devoted 10 society.
Said one the other day: "im afraid to
meet Mrs, Blank al dinner or "A re-
ception, She is sure to mark me for her
own in order to tell me just how the
medicine acted on the baby's sore
mouth, and the men | know aren't
much different, | want to talk about
fishing. or politics. or something else
than sickness, but they won't let me.
a nice man who has something 10 do
with street car system says that at
times he wishes he had never been born.
Just the merest glimpse of him Is
enough to start all the people chatter
ing ON the subject of the public's
wrongs and the iniquities of his busi-
ness. They say reprOachfully. Il wait
ed on Il street corner a full half hour
today. Just think of il" and he does
think of 1t and wishes that the speaker
might be still waiting--on the street
corner.
The next person he meets ssks qucr-
ulously, Why on earth don't you
change the schedule on our line? 1t
doesn't suit us at ALL" ana The next
announces, oh, I'm so glad to see you,
Mr.. y. I've been waiting 10 tell you
about horrid, rude conductor | don't
know his name or his number. but of
course YOU can hnd out which one he is.
He has pug nose, and he took me
past my corner the other day. He
knows very well l always ger off there"
Another suggests that the street ear