The Washington herald., 1908-08-09
WOMAN ABOUT TOWN
Frailties and Foibles of Her Sex.

/ delicate little woman hurried uP and
paused dismayed when she saw how long
I the lire was.
Oh dear she said. IN distress. Tn
miss that train"
I Chivalry lived in one man in the line
I in spite or his melted collar. lie made
room for her in front OF him. turning
deaf ear to the muttered curse words Of
/ the impatient man behind him A duh
rumble Of disapprovai went down tie
whole line The lady presently reached
I the wicket and smiled at the ticket seller
VIII you please give me" she said.
fumhling with he= wrist bag
4 Where tO2' he asked
She opened the bag and plunged a hand
/ into il
Mercy she said. Where is It? 7
can't have lost It. I had Il a minute ago.
I Whereof. here il is
/ Her silk El0ved hand held out a so bill
7 want 20 so 70 Atlantic City" she
said and
~ 'Lantic City said the ticket seller.
! banging the stamp down on a ticket and
/ throwing il on the window board. Ian
/ tic
"Oh. no. she said. I've got a ticket
I just wanted 70 ask you TO give me four
hves for this twenty
I That Is the explanation Of what you
/ heard about 70 in the morning. II WASH Z
an explosion OF dynamite. nor Yet an
earthquake II came from the direction
OF the station
How often we are served unconsciously
by utter strangers. Take the autaor Of
one Of the summers books. now Wen
cal II April Anxiety" OF May 8Iala-
ria. or December DecOrum. for IL has
the name Of a month n its title. In a
newspaper I chanced upon yesterday. in
the lost and found column, came upon
this
-Lost-A copy Of March Manners with
marginal comments. Owner. greatly dis
tressed. begs finder 10 destroy leaf bear
ing her name and address.
That, said to myself. at first sight Of
i, IS the advertisement Of a worldly wise
woman Another would have suggested
the books return. even expecting such a
I thing TO occur. as certain persons still
expect to see hoop snake or a sorrel
mule What were the marginal com
ments2 I asked myself The text must
have suggested them. I said. What sort
OF text IS IL. Queried. that can call forth
comments which It will give you duck
fits 70 have anybody know YOU made
3 When my ship comes in. / said to myself
III buy that book. and make my own
guesses- I am curious about il I want
/ 10 know what comments one would be
likely 70 make on reading H. Fortunate
y, I had a second thought in time TO
save me Nobody can convince ne now
that that advertisement wasn't inserted
my somebody who wanted 10 trick peo-
pie into buying the book. Maybe II
wasn't. but personally I don't believe
publishers would stop at anything. I'm
going 10 borrow the book And If a real
stranger advertised may the world be
ful of such strangers when I write q
book
It's odd how much more force the
printed word has than the spoken" saws
q Washington surgeon. I had a patient
a week ago on whom I had 10 perform q
not very serious operation. She was 70
be al the hospital the day before. and
when I spoke OF preparation she said she
knew exactly what 10 do. so I didn't say
much more I operated in the morning.
and the anesIhetic had a wholly un-
llooked-for disagreeable after effect ]
asked her a few days later what on
earth she'd been eating the evening be-
fore She told me there had been a story
IN monthly publication which does the
thinking for million or so women about
an operation. and how. just the night
before IL the patients husband was told
70 take her TO the thea1er and 10 supper
afterwaTd- Shed followed The advice of
that article Shed had a lobster Ia