Bridgeton pioneer., 1913-09-11

such quetness fell upon the house that
/ began to feel lonesome About 1
O'Clock in the afternoon the three got
dressed to 20 out in company. and of
course each one put on her best duds
to make the other jealous. You know
what women are. Mr. WassermanT
"Vhell. maype. | lif NIT my old wo-
mans for oafer dwenty year."
Out For an Airing.
"Of course. They praised each 9TH
er's hats and dresses as they stood in
the hall, but it was all hypocrisy. you
know. The countess was perhaps the
best dressed. though it was pretty
even thing all over. They sailed away
like three graces, and / kicked the goat
out of the halls. run the dogs on to the
street and heaved the carts in the back
yard. For two hours | had a house to
be proud of, and | had made up my
mind - te| ~ Iur. :, tc raise the
rent when the ladies returned. They
had treated each other to clam broth.
ice cream and candy and had come
back in taxi to end up in swagger
way. When the taxi came dashing up
there was sensation on that block,
and fifty other women turned pale as
they looked out of their windows"
'Vhas some rubber tires on der
wheels of dot taxi?" asked the grocer
as he seemed to call up picture in his
minds eye
"Aye, there was. Mr. Wasserman,"
replied the janitor. "Yes. there was
rubber tires on every wheel-none
missing-and the choffer was in uni
form. For minute or two l felt so
proud that l was determined to ask
McMurphy to raise my salary to $50
month and fuel throwed in: but, alas,
it was the taxi that was our undoing."
"Did she broke down"
Not at all. The ladies didn't have
money enough to settle the fare. you
see. or they wanted to beat each other.
They could scrape only 10 cents to-
gether. while the fare WAS a dollar and
half and the choffer wasn't slow in
giving them his opinion of bilks. 1t
wasn't two m;nutek before the whole
then there was fun. At first the three
women hung together as against the
choffer, but pretty soon Mrs O'Sulli-
van got her Irish up ard turned on the
others with:
"'Be me sowl. but might have
knowed it. What but this should hap
pen to a discindant Of the OShanes
who goes out with a dago and a nay
gur!'
Hostiities About to Begin.
"'Who you .calla dago?' yelled the
countess.
"'And WHO'S a naygurT shouted Mrs.
Torrington.
"Then great crowd gathered
around hoping to see a scrap. and
when | tell you. Mr. Wasserman, that
the reputation of McMurphy's flats
for chick and gentility suffered set
| speak the word with aching heart
To satisfy the choffer and avoid a row
ON the street, Mrs. O'Sullivan handed
over that tea store diamond and sailed
into the house as grand as a queen,
and when the others had followed her
I locked the doors on the crowd"
"Und so all vnas peace once more?
queried the grocer with sigh of re-
lief
"Not on your life. old man. You
know what prelude is, don't you?"
Il pellet do. but don't carry some
in stock. She vhas too perishable."
Just a Curtain Raiser.
Just so. Well. that little affair on
the sidewalk was a prelude. a pro
logue, curtain raiser 1t didn't take
get back into her fighting togs, and
she made break for upstairs at once
The dago and the colored woman were
ready for her and also for each
other, and the way they did sail in
and break down doors and knock off
plaster gave me papitation of the
heart and thoughts of graveyards. ]
limped off and let them have it out,
and the three of them are in bed and
will be for week to come"
But maybe dey shall make oop good
friends und stay so." suggested the
grocer.
Maybe; but you can't expect it, Mr..
Wasserman. 1t amt in what they call
nature. you see. It's Ireland agin Italy
and Africa. and Italy and Africa agin
Ireland, and three women agin each
other. and If you don't mind I'll take
cucumber home for my lunch and
fore the menagerie breaks loose again