The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-01
In a Beautiful Cart Belonging to the
Street Department.

That and nothing else, and 1--we been
! business?" queried Mrs. Finnigan.
THAT had nothing else, and I've been
| the only lady at the ball whose presence
has been mentioned in the papers. On
the last occasion four different daily
papers wrote up me costume, and one
of them mintioned that me carriers niver
cost less than fifteen cints. I've all the
articles pasted in me scrap-book, and
some day I'll be pleased to show it to
YOU
But why do they say We was. carried
home in puSh-cart a wheelbarrow
Mrs McG1ory? I thought a real lady
always took a landoo whin she whit
home from ball.
It's a land-aw, We mean, me frind.
One could tell that We niVer sprang from
! a family wild a coat of arms. just by
the way We mix up the vehicles of the
country Yes, a real lady always rides
home from a ball in her own Iand-aw,
wild a footman sitting UP beside the
driver, but things may happen, Mrs.
Finnigan. For instance, a wheel may
have been broken off that land-aw that
same day, or one of the rubber ties may
have busted itself, or the cOachman
come down wild the smallpox, OF one of
the horses developed a cough. 1t may
even happen that you have lint the out
fit to go to a funeral or a wedding.
What thin, Mrs. Finnigan-I am asking
We, what thin?'
Thin she might take a cab or a
coop-a, might she?'
There you go wild your coop-a and
your ignorance agin. What We calls a
coop-a is neither more nor less thin a
coop-aw, and It's mighty lucky for yet
that there isn't five or six ladies pris-
ent to remember your pronunciation.
Yes a real lady might take cab or a
coop-aw to go home, but when Rafferty,
gives a ball things get mixed up. Yea
may call for cab and push-cart will
come in place of it, and sc may call for
a cOOp-aW and some man will arrive
2 WI hustle ~
fore We have time to protest That's
been the way wild me, and III have no
more of it,
But it's Mrs. O'Brien who says that
We have niver arrived at the ball in
carriage" persisted Mrs. Finnigan.
Me compliments to Mrs. O'Brien, and
We may call her a liar in me name It's
only q year ago that me and Pat ar
rived at the hall in a bewitful cart be-
longinE to the street department, and
the sinsation created was immense. At
that time Pat had a pull wild the poll
ticians and the politicians had a pull
wild the street cleaning men, and so
it came about in the most bewitful and
bountiful manner. We wint to the ball
in the cart, and we come home in the
same, and next day / had calls from
siven different ladies on Avenue A. Can
you bate that, Mrs. Finnigan?
And now that we are done wild Raj
ferty's ball, and I'm telling we that I'll
uiver attind another on account of me
character as a leader of the ton, We
might open your mouth and pour out
any other gossip floating through this
tiniment block"
Thin it is Mrs. Culhane who says we
are giving out the news that we have
money in three savings banks, and that
We take the books wild We and flourish
'ern around whin We walk out
Mrs. Culhane says that, does she? I
could go on and tell We that once saw
this very Mrs. Culhane lift cake of
soap in a departmint store and make |
thief of herself, and that the only pair
of gloves on her hands today was a
prisint from me, but III pass it over
No real lady can afford to handy words |
wild parveneW. As to me money in |
three different savings banks, I've got |
it. and I'm going to show you the books. |
Here they are. Mrs. Finnigan, and I'll
ask but one favor of ye. It's only q J