The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-02

to the action of the Republican city pri-
marles, spring of 1900
they calls a cowincidence? Was there
any intention on the part of me
| daughter to sail through the air and
come down with a flop %
" e may call it accident or GOWN
cidence, Mrs. McGinty, but if Mary
had been home mending her stock
ings it never could have happened.
am also given to understand that she
got up with never a blush on her
face, and if that speaks we'll of her
then I'm no mother"
But what's the use of a girl blush
ing in the darkness, when even the
cow she has run over can't see it?
Ye seem inclined to make a blessed
Glory. 1t is because I'm owing We
cup OF sugar and can't pay till Sat
urday ?''
It's because I'm upholding the
pillars of society, and modesty is one
of them"
but I'm contending that an acct
dent might happen to you, Mrs. Nc
Glory, and if so would We be to blame
If We lost yer primness for a moment?
1t wasn't two years ago that We was
picked up on the streets by a police
man at twelve of the clock, and ye
was barefoot with only an old COM
mony on. How was that for modesty,
Mrs. McGIory?'
Don't think to put me down nor al
come home tight and threw me out
neck and heels, and I was on my way
to my sisters when the cop comes
spooking around the corner. That was
blushing and weeping for four weeks
afterwards, and did 1 walk up Fifth
avenue Tor more than six months for
Tear that I'd be pinted out as the COM
nony lady. Oh, but you can't bring
that up agin me. As woman so years
old and the mother of 'leven children,
four OF whom expired in their infancy
I'd be privileged to walk about bare
loot where it would scandalize a young
girl
so you are leaving the wash tub
ana ironing board to uphold the pillows
of society, are We, Mrs. McGlory? If
that's true then the ladies of this tene-
Inent must dress in their silks every
day and sit with folded arms A pillow
of society, and we have to carry yer
own coal up five fiShts of stairs and
eat mostly with yer ingersl"
Mis-. McGinty, if I wasn't a lady
porn ana pred, ana an upholder of So
c1ety for these last ten years, I'd light
on to yet like a hawk on to a chicken
and not leave seven hairs in yer head
but as it is I can afford to overlook yer
JealouSies- AS I said, I'm supporting
the pillars of society, and modesty is
one of them. Mebbe you have been told
that I've cut the acquaintance OF Mrs.
O'Grady, of the next block?"
And it must be a great loss to her!"
I'm believing it is, as she was here
every day to borrow something and
never paid a borrowing back, and when
we walked on the Bowery together it
was me who always invited her in TO
have glass of sody water. Yes, I've
cut her acquaintance, and I'll give the
reasons for it. They had a fire in the
tenement three weeks ago"
Yes, I remember
We'll, did Mrs. O'Grady get out of
bed and dress herself and slide down
the banisters as a true lady should, or
did she spring out with little around
her but the costume of Eve and make
things far worse by jumping from the
fire escape in the presence of thou
sand people?"
But that was also a cowincidence,
Mrs. McGlOry."
81 shall ever deny that it was There
was no fire in the house at all, but all
the smoke came from some old smould-
ering rags. There was oceans of time
to be modest and decent, and not an
other lady in the tenement forgot her
self. I'm sorry to state it, Mrs Nc
GlOry-sOrry am I to say anything
agin me own sex, poor things-but I
have observed a growing tendency for
the last few years to lose modesty in
the shuttle. Time was when a. real
lady would have burned with a house
sooner than come down to safety with
out her shoes on, but how is it now?
Almost every day I read of ladies be-
ing knocked ten feet by automobiles or
street cars and never a word is printed
that the first thing said when they
came to their senses was to ask the
public to excuse 'em. Up in the Cats
kills this summer a young woman rolls
down a. mountain half a mile high and
lands in the midst of two hundred men
building railroad track. The papers
said that she broke several bones and
was unconscious for three days, but
never a word was printed that she felt
ashamed of her conduct and wouldn't
do it agin. Only week ago a social
ed lady faints away on the street. I've
done that same thing meself, as has
every other true lady, but how did
do it? I knew that 1 was going to faint
and / picks out a nice, clean place on
the sidewalk and sinks down in a
graceful heap and never looks more
swan-liIxe in me life. The papers that
speak of my fainting also praise me
pose How was it with the female the
other day? She kneels over on a sand
pile in the greatest confusion. and it
took ten policemen to drive the old
bald-heads out of the front row.
Mrs. AdcGlory, We have a gift of CAB,
but I can't put off my work to listen
to it. Is it that We won't allow your
daughter Kate to associate with me
daughter Mary any more?''
That's it to dot. Mrs. McGinty. AS
a pillar of society,"
seThen yees can go to Ballyhack or
any other place, Mrs. McGloryl"
"Then yees can get out O. here or feel
me foot striking agin We! No. take
that back. I'm a lady, Mrs. McGfnty--
a lady as well a pillar of society, and
as such I request you to withdraw yer
mug from me presence and take notice
that if yees ever call again me butler
will have instructions to say; Not at
home to theey Copyright, 1905. by
T. c. McClure-)
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