Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-08-12
LUCINDA'S
EXPERIENCE


isn't it funny" said Lucinda.
how folks get caught onto each
other in the street? Why. l suppose
four hundred such things must hap
pen every day, and they might hap
pen to anybody in the most unex-
pected way.
why, only this morning l saw
two young women walking along to-
gether, talking and chattering and
very much engaged over what they
were talking about and never giving
thought to anything happening and
then the first thing you know one of
them was brought up, as my brother
Claude would say. all standing.
This girl had on a shoulder cape
that was trimmed all around its edge
with half circle loops of silk cord.
and as the two girls walked along
talking, the wind got under this cape
and blew it out and one of those
loops somehow caught on a button
of the coat of man who was passing
them coming from the opposite di-
rection.
Really 1t didn't seem that there
was one chance in a million that it
would happen SO; but that's what did
happen, and it stopped the girl right
away, or she stopped the minute she
began to feel the tug. OF course it
stopped the man too, and then he
opd che uyopt ~ urorL IN uot tho
loop of the button.
you might think that this would
be a simple. easy thing to do. but it
wasn't. Astonishing how thingS can
get twisted up sometimes; and it
seemed as If that silk loop must have
got twisted around that button at
least fourteen times.
And now the girl that had got
caught and the man stood there and
tried to untwist it. The other girl
when she saw what had happened
walked on a few steps and waited,
and l thought that was wise thing
for her to do, because If she had
waited she could not have done any
good, and standing there by her
friend she would have made three of
them halted there together and SO
have helped to attract crowd.
$50 the girl and the man stood
there and struggled with the loop
and the button. First she tried and
failed-I guess she was little nerv-
Gus over it, as l should think any
body would have been-and then
they both worked over 1t at the same
time, but that didn't do; and then
she let go and the man took hold,
and he looked to see first just how
the loop was caught around, and
then he UNFINISHED 1t in jiffy and
set himself and the girl free. Then
he lifted his hat and went on his
way and the girl hurried on and re-
joined her waiting companion.
quite an experience, that, wasn't
it? But such things are happening all
the time; / saw another just like it.
only different. Just yesterday after
noon.
There was a man and his wife
walkin along together in something
of hurry, the man carrying suit
case l guess they were going to
eatck> train@and> coming from the
other direction along the same SIDE
walk was a little girl about ten or
twelve years old with her hair in
braid hanging down her back. And
how In the world this could have
happened l don't know, but as this
man and this little girl were passing
she swished her braid around-she
just happened to. you know-and 1t
caught on a button OF his coat and
stopped him.
"His wife hadn't seen this, didn't
know anything about it, and she kept
right along, but she missed him in
minute, and when she looked around
after him there he was standing
back there on the sidewalk with that
little. girl beside him. He had set
his suit case down on the walk, and
now he was bending over and ap-
parently very much interested In
something, and wnen sne nad got
back to where he was she saw that
what he was trying to do was to get
that little girls braid clear Of one OF
the buttons of his coat.
HE got it clear finally. and then
the. little girl shook her braid and
looked up at him and laughed, and
he looked down on her and smiled.
and then he picked up his suit case
and hurried on.
Now, really, wasn't it curious
that the little girls braid should get
caught so, when you'd had hard work
to fasten it around that button so
that 1t would stay If you had tried
to? But don't people get caught In
all sorts of odd ways? Catch their
umbrellas in peoples hats and
clothes? Don't women get their
wells caught on other women's hats
and hat pins? Don't people get
caught to each other in all sorts OF
ways?
II tell you. girls. you never can
tell what's going to happen. New
York Sun.