The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-20
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Recipes
Kitchen Helps
The Table
At the Station When Milady Departs
On Her Summer Vacation.

On Her Summer NdCdt'oH.
Now that the vacation season has
arrived the troubles of the Union sta
tion gatemen. the ticket examiners,
have increased twOfold. Few pubic
service employees have to contend
with as many petty annoyances as
these patient workers who guard the
travellers to and t'Om their trains. Inc
cateman blames the women for the
greatest norton Of his trials for their
troubles must be his also. His nature
must change with the quickness Of the
color Of the chameleon's skin when he
deals with them. he says. Every day
now scores of women are leaving the
titv for a vacation, ana when milady
parts the troubles of the gatemen
begin.
Usually she has some male relative
or friend who sees to her baggage
and perhaps procures her ticket Tor
her. so when she arrives at the Union
station it is the man at the gate who
is the victim. OF course, there are
some who begin at the bureau of in
formation, and stumble through each
sIcc5 ssive step of thes, departure.
where is the ticket office. please?"
asks a cOmfOrtable-lOoki woman at
the bureau Of information.
Just across where you can see the
sign. madam replies the official, po-
litely.
Thanking him she hurries around to
the baggage room. She is again put
right and she is indignant.
positively the man at the place
around there told me this was the
tries to get her ticket at the Pullman
office
And so it goes until she Arrives at
last moment that she has not checked
her trunk, and so it has to be ex-
pressed by one of the accompanying
friends.
Since the new ruling anent the pass
ing of people without tickets through |
the Washington terminal have had a |
the gates the ticket examiners al
hard time of it. All day long they |
have to stand and receive the wages
opinions of the fair sex.
one of the ushers declared that 80
per cent of the travelling public are
suffering with the 'brainanian disease |
which properly diagnosed, means acute
dumbness"
Are women worse than men?" he
was asked.
They are no dumber, but they s''e
more persistent. that's the trouble"
was the answer.
Just then tall brunette followed by
divers relatives and friends bore down
upon the defenseless man at the gate,
and started through, regardless.
Ticket. madam" said the examiner,
gently.
We'll, wouldn't that just kill you!
Do YOU think for an instant I would
attempt to go through if l did not
have a ticket or could not pay my
way? never heard the like!" BY this
time she produedc her ticket. and, the
track being indicated, sailed through
with dignity. The relatives were
stopped at the gate.
Well, for goodness sake" she ex-
claimed, do YOU mean to say that my
sisters and my aunt ard my chum
cannot come through to see me off?
Rules of the company? Fudge, Why,
I never in my life heard anything like
the impudence of it," She is address
ing TO whom it may concern" 'fOf
course they can come though. Well,
TT write te the president of this
road"
Madam. Your train will pull out |
in two minutes said the poor man.
GO and see the station manager
and tell him how impertinent this I'M
derling has BEEN" she instructed her
relatives hurriedly, and rushed to her
train without saying od-bye.
The fair one handed him a ticket |
and he looks blank.
Madam. this will not do, it"