The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-16
Meaning me, Mrs. McGlory p

Meaning me, Mrs. McGlory?"
mot in particular. AS your hus-
band has pull wild the ward alder
men you have certain privileges your
self, but I'm thinking of others. Did
you hear of Mrs. O'Shane and the
street car CONDUCTOR"
mot at ALL
when she was getting on a street
car the other day the conductor yelled
to her to step lively. She hurried so
that it took her breath away and she
was faint for five minutes"
done?"
Your question shows that We were
not born in the purple, Mrs. O'Reilly.
| What do do under the same circum-
stances? If I have my foot on the step
! and a conductor tells me to step lively
I draw back and fold me arms and look
him in the eye and ask him if he knows
full minute, and when / get on it
| in a stately way and with dignity to
spare. That conductor is even afraid
4 to come and collect me fare. Let Mrs.
O'Shane step lively agin and she's no no
friend of mine. No true lady would
step lively even if there was a Texas
steer after her. Nothing but a Pan
hard going fifty miles an hour and
humping into her must upset her dig
nifty"
cts being said at the delicatassen
store, Mrs. McGlory, that We no longer
speak of living in a tiniment house, but
LAaC We calls 1t a DunSalOWlOW.
That's true, me friend, except that
We have got too much lowlow on it. In
summer time the rooms of a lady, no
matter where situated, are a bungalow;
in winter they are snuggery. NO lady
with a bit of etiquette in her makeup
would speak of living in a tiniment-
The word was taboed five years ago.
It's the little things like this that count
in telling a raIe lady from pretinder."
But it's being said at the butcher
sbOD that va carries home yer own soup
bones"
And that's where I shows me quail
ity agin, Mrs. OReilly. I'll leave it to
yerself if any true lady would ask n
hard-worked butcher or his consump-
tive delivery boy to climb five flights
of stairs to deliver a five-cent bone
when she was coming directly home
herself? Indade she wouldn't. She'd
have consideration for the lungs and
legs and feelings of others. IT'S the
shoddyiteS that set people running for
them in hopes to deceive, the public"
That may be true" said Mrs:
| O'Reilly, but does a rale, true lady
carry up her own coal in dish pan2''
"She does, and I am a living ex-
ample of that same. She doesn't do II
to save money, as I wants We to take
notice, but for what they calls physical
exercise.
For instance, I'm too fat. I goes
to the doctor for something to thin
me down, and when he learns that
have no worries nor cares to take the
flesh off he recommends me to carry
up three or four tons of coal during the
winter It's hard on the back at first,
Mrs. O'Reilly, but it's a great thing
to bring out the swan-like lines in yer
form.
cts that and this and the 'tother
that go to make up the true lady, and
We can't make no mistake on her, and
now if We have a nickel in yer purse
I'll furnish the GROWER and Wen have
| a bit OF beer up here, and drink it
from the pail, and wipe our mouths on
i our aprons, and show each other that
! it comes natural for us to abide Wid tie
four ed.''-Copyright 1905, by 7.
/ c. Mcclure.