Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-05-09
saw REAL TRAGEDY
Movie Spectators Were Treated
to Two Shows.
One Among the Audience Miuht Al
most Be Called a Comedy, Unless
One Had to Pay for Crushed
Headgear.

My seat WINS directly behind those
occupied by the trio who figured in a
serio-comic accident that convulscd
nearby spectators In Broadway mov-
Ing picture thenter the other after
noon. l therefore am able to tell Just
what happened and give details that
must have puzzled persons sitting q
little farther away.
The two women We're loaded down
with parcels and small packages when,
right in the middle of thrilling drama
they slowly and cautiously fitted them
selves into two orchestra chairs near
the middle aisle.
1t was Il tight fit. for neither Of the
ladies' could he described as sylphlike
In form, and the urmfuls of purchased
nundles contributed in no way to fn-
cilitate adjustment of the generous
cargo nature previously entrusted to
| each. Parcels of various sizes slid from
their knees into reccsscs under the
seats In front and stopped into the
aisle from the lap of one who sat near
est to 1t.
The thcater was in scmidnrkness.
and 1t was only by the cropping of
| many hands, In response to whispered
appeals. that the troubles of diligent
hours spent in shopping were returned
to them. They then apparently for the
first time discovered that the adjoining
seat-thrl from the sidc-was unoc-
cupicd. and into 1t they dumped their
bundles and their hats.
Quiet in the immediate vicinity had
scarcely been restored when n stout,
middle-agcd man arrived with coupon
calling for the seat they had just con-
verified into Il sort of family catch-nlI.
Regardless of their cXclnmations OF
despair he inched his way in, while
they with frantic haste struggled to
clear Off the place upon which he was
to SIT
Peace finally descended again upon
the nclghborhood. and we had given
ourselves up to un'listurbcd wonder
concerning tho fate of the film heroine
should the villain penetrate her dis
guise as a French artillery officer.
when one of the packngc-laden women
SiiIu 10 tIle nIIleT.
"Mcrcy! ! promised to be home by
five o'clock. Lucy is going out and I
forgot all about it,"
While the speaker, who sat nearest
the aisle, arranged her hat and pierced
It with a couple OF pins. her compan-
ion struggled to convert the fruits Of
their shopping into two portable pyrn-
AZ NIL ev,0
scream, and then whispered to her
friend in awe-stricken tones. 81 can't
find my hat. l believe that man Is
sitting on It,"
"Gracious goodness" said the other.
"Ask him."
II can't do it." said her friend. "You
ask him."
Thus appealed to. the holder Of the
two turned to the man. who appeared
to have heard nothing Of their CONVEX
satiOn, and said:
II think you are sitting on this lady's
hat"
II am not doing anything of the sort;
why should II" was the amazing reply
she received.
'oIL uONL, NitCu 3.SCIdI tOlCcS w
the HATED and hatless ones. from
whose arms bundles again began to
leak.
II am not sitting on your hat.
ma'nm," said the suspected male, "but
IL it will do you any good, I'll prove
It,"
Then he arose, and from under his
ponderous body the hatless woman re-
moved what had once been towering
millinery creation. with twin pinnacles
soaring aloft. but which was now only
pancake Of cloth and feathers.
Afwave of mingled applause and pro-
hesitation swept that part of the the
alter, rs the shoppers departed, y1ds-
ing every few feet to recapture some
meandering parcel-Madge Arthur, in
Buffalo Courier.