The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-13
GAVE HIM A LESSON.

"a recent article in one of the mag
aZines about children of the stage.
illustrated With "A lot of pictures of the
forward and unmanuer'S little tads, !e-
calls TO my mind AN incident in which
one of them figured in Atlantic City
during the early part Of the season"
said = Washington physician who put
in his vacation at the Jersey resort.
During the bathing hour one morning
q lot OF ladies'. most of them mothers
of children, were seated on Il board
walk pavilion watching the bathers.
when d fresh yOulgster of 5 or 10. eX-
nggeratedty but richly logged out. APP
pea.ci and started in to nave fun with
them.
"wlte ladies were all sitting facing
tae sea. and it struck the fresh kid that
il Would be a mighty divcrtins thing
for him to sneak up behind their chairs
and tug at their loose wisps of bac
hair.
The unmannerly kid probably didn't
know that women are mighty sensitive
about their back hair. and that those
itttle Wisps are called 'scOlding locks
He started in to have whole slathers
of larks with tn. married women,
anyway, sneakins up behind them. n
after one. yanking their heads back by
grabbing hold Of their back hair and
pulling II. and then darting away III
his merry little gisgling way.
The annoyed women glared at the
in!pudent cub. but their glance had no
effect upon him. He would merely wait
til, they had uuieted down and forgot
ten about him. and then he would
sneak up and take a grab at some other
woman's back hair.
But he finally picked n loser. as
everybody does who sticks to one game
too long.
He made a grab at the back hair OF
a square-jawed woman with steel-rim-
med s~DectacleS. who had IA large grown
family of her w in bathing out in he
sea in front of ner. and the square
jaWed woman was just waiting for
HIM.
He didn't get within a foot of catch
ing hold of her hair before she had
twisted about in her seat II had him
In a grip in which she'd had plenty of
practice when she was raising young
boys herself years before.
NOW the square lawed woman re-
marked to h squirming kid as he
struggled to break loose from her pow
erful grasp, what kind of a fool mon
key are you anyhow, that you can't
behave instead OF making such a mis-
cradle little nuisance of yourself"
The spoiled theatrical kid tried as
best he %could-for the tight grasp upon
him was never relaXed-a silly thea
trical attitude. and then he gasped, in
4 IL manner Wllcn lie obviously IllOlSl
was enormously hjyj1faiu1in and e(rec-
tive. but which was simply depressing:
"'You let go o. me, Yol don't know
who | am. / am -. mentioning
the name of a we'll known kid actor
whose portrait anpcnrs in he ]nsazin.
article about stage children that I've
mentioned and I MAY leads With Erob-
man
"Thc snectaclod won,on With the
y Sulllrp in w look Oh at the foolish WheiU
.tnrn1v for a n,op,ont
".Oh Won do do vouo, she remarked
Then she deliherntrlv nlaced hin
over her knee.
.Jr that's The cage, she went on
Chen Won need ia ba taumht for nhou,
two minntes that an Of Ihe world Is
moi n stage in smile Of what Miste,
Shakesneare had 10 saw about it..
DOM nlny leads for I,rohman or any.
hodv else my fresh little friend but
Imagine haven't forgot how TO play
the kind of tattoo thai Won need more
than any HOY T ever n,et m with,
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