The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-23

The poor tired working man has at
last been offered a seat in d crowded
street car-and he has refused. A few
evenings ago a young and handsome
matron boarded a street car late in The
afternoon to make her way home she
saw the car was crowded and, select
Ing a strap, she prepared for the ride.
1fEoung man arose and lifting his hat
offered her his seat. She protested
that she was not tired and refused to
take IL. He of course insisted and she
followed the usual rule OF women and
consented. No sooner had she seated
herself than she heard the following
comment from one man standing near
her.
IF it doesn't make me tired. A lot
of these women come down town to
buy a spool of thread and invariably
wait to catch the 6 o'clock car home,
while a bunch of us men have to
stand" The lady arose and, looking
the man in question directly in the
face. she said:
-'Won't you please take my seat?"
The man was so overcome that he
actually blushed-but he refused.
mo. indeed; l was talking to this
gentleman"
The gentleman indicated found the
situation too much for him and he
shook the rest of the way home with
Unsurpassed laughter. while the lady
calmly gazed out of the window.
There's one young bank employe
whose pride was sadly damaged one
day the past week. A fair maiden 20
whom ne had been paying rather
marked attentions returned. from trip
80 California. Now it seems that while
she-was absent his heart had changed
a trifle, as hearts will do on occasion,
and he no longer wOrshiDed at her
shrine. but had found another She
was greatly relieved at hearing this,
and yet her joy-was tempered with
trace of selfishness. She thought to
send a rather acid message 10 him, and
she brought home with her large
and SNOWY branch, not an olive branch
but a READ lemon branch, laden with
its picturesque and extremely suggest
i've fruit One of the lemons she
plucked and send it by a fellow labor
err to the young man. The package was
presented at what the stOry-Writers
call the psychological moment, /. e.,
when several others were present. and
consequently was opened amid great
: 3ubilation-
Less than a fortnight remains of the
time allotted to the world. the flesh
and-the other fellow, whose name is
not supposed to be mentioned, but who
is said to be raised in preparation for
the time of retirement imposed by
Lent OF course, there Will be no
bridge playing during Lent, dear me,
no. Unless 1t is just a quiet little
game to keep the joints from getting
stiff with too much praying. And
there will be absolutely no society
eFents-except those not recorded in
ne dailies And there will be no re-
ports given out at all-lest the record
ing angel. who surely reads the so
ciety reports, might get wise to the
fact that Lent is not all devoted 20
devotions.
A tiny tot wandered into the news
paper office the other day. looking
with all confidence into each of the
workers stalls Some one kindly
asked her what she wanted, and she
said:
at want papa"
who's papa?" inquired the friend,
not knowing the little face.
''Why, mine"
There's to be an opportunity to play
cards for charity at last, and those
charity affairs are so thoroughly de-
lightful. OF course, everybody's money
is good, but eVerybody,s company is
not and so there must be a good deal
of engineering done beforehand in or
der to bridge the difficulty. The lines
of demarcation were as closely drawn
at the last one as if there had been
partitions erected around some of the
tables.
1t seems that there are as many
bruised feelings and bhghted younG
hearts over the leap year dance Of last
evening as there would be over an or
binary affair. More than one youth is
said to have wept out his sore heart
on the confiding chest of a manly
cicerone, under whose guidance he had
sought. Joy where no joy was to be
found, and who had assured him that
masculine wall flowers We're out Of
date.
There's more than a suspicion that
a matrimonial affair scheduled to take
place at regular intervals for the past
many years is TO be one of the spring
events-cOming some time contempt
! rary with the Easter bonnet The two
Interested or most interested parties
are just now in the far east-this-side
of the AtIantic-but their Salt Lake
friends will be as wide awake TO the
situation as ever.
The skating craze has not died out
entirely yet by any means, as eVt-
denced by the vigor with which some
few Of the heavily weighted matrons
are pursuing the game. 1t is interest
ing to visit one of the popular Kinks of
a morning to discern who's there for
fun and who for-well. for purposes of
reduction.
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with the week starting off with an
informal hop at the post for the, new
bride and groom there, and a uunHs<s
of larger events following fast on the
heels of it. there will be little prospect
of season of ennui before the begin
ming of Lent.
DOLL BARET.