The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-19
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The PeriIs and PereGrinAtiens % Home.
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To THE EDIToR or THE sUS-sp A. 4
rule I am a strict SAbbatArian, by which
mean to convey that I rarely STIR out on q
Sunday. but yesterday I had perforce "a
| break my resolution. and got all the study
Of mankind. Including women and children
that I could ever wish for. My objective
point was Mamaroneck. and the startinR
point Tho Bronx. IA ! live half way he
tween fremont and West Farms = prelm-
mary carfare had to he paid. for there Is
no transfer TO the Iarchmont car. though
Why the latter should not run through 70
fremont u . puzzle
Even to get on the LaFchmont car on a
sunday at West Farms requires an i'm
men-e taxing Of brain and muscle How
ever. a. I had not quite forgotten Rugby
football l actually managed to get by fore
sight and tacklinR an outside seat. After
We had been packed In like sardineS the
, Inevitable fat woman chose me for her
target There were Ave people on this
particular bench. and four standing up
The obese MAS regarded me with daunt 70
less eye. mounted the step and desired me
authoritatlvely to shove along" and make
room for her GENERALLY I am courteous
and alruistic but there are limits. ! ct
plained to her that there was no room for
a lady OF her measurements. and ! would
fain not give up the healthful position had
achieved. hut II che liked to try and at On
the other side OF me she could make he at
tempt She snorted and stood on NV feet
for tho rest OF the journey.
ON the road the conductor was more than
chatty to a passenger sitting behind me
I learned that he had been on that same
route for fourteen years. had married at the
age Of u and was possessed OF eight chill
dren, the eldest Of whom was ~. none az
whom had ever known what y was TO wear
family nj; rG Hs sadsd thai vas ss Years.
old and felt twenty years YOUNGER and Ger
dred end somstbiSs s,Tesr to collect the
second fares his face was that OF pleased
youth OF -.
IN due, or rather undue time, though Why
this car should not proceed another hall
mile into Larchlnont proper ms instead sn ,i o.
BY this time ! began 20 feel that wooden
benches are hard and inconvenient. A
10 Az Reach car opU %s. T Hsry Welcome On
this line they actually have the foresight to
run an auxiliary. car a. well a. the ordinary
the West Farms line II took me q little
over two hours and a half To reach Mamar-
oneck
And the coming back shall ever for
get 10 The two cars were more than over =
full. and the JAbber VAS that Of the Tower OF
niI S Sns" crowd thai Would have done
credit To any fashionable wedding was In
waiting For one hour did stare at the
while Others wandered IDLY into = wide open
ho-telry TO see friends. v no they facetiously
added had accompanied them in their emf
grafton from the other side A. last came
rumoT that wire was down. and a car
might come in fifteen minutes or three
hours 80 started to walk A stroll for
half a mile brought mo so the broken wire
and string Of waiting cars, and after
another hnlf hours delay the last car was
sent tripping back to West Farms without
waiting Tor tho necessary wire repairing
Then In FUN view of ladies resting their
bare and generally unvashed necks and
yoluminous tTs-.c- on the shoulders 81 their
sweetheart. in England they always
changed hats hut this was omitted here
We CraN led along to the terminus
I reached home ~ midnight. VovinR that
no earthly power should ever again move
me from my home on a sunday. The ex-
perienC. served me right HONS BIRD
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