New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-23
Grocer Boys Kiss or a Maids
Eyebrow Upsets All Scarsdale
Women's Club Indignant, but Jury of Its Husbands
Gets Clemency for Lad at Trial and Then
Members Go Sadly Home to Face the Music

1t was a haggard and harsssed look
ing throug of commuters that piled
aboard the S:55 at Scarsdale yester-
day morning and there were among
them twelve at whom their weary fell
low travellers cast commissioning
glances and who exchanged among
themselves certain signals of complete
understanding and sympathy.
They were the twelve good men and
| true who had dared to recommend to
the mercy of the court an ardent
grocers boy of Scarsdale, who had en-
braced and kissed maid in the house
hold of Mrs. Russell Marchant. Will
liam Mercer, Justice of the Peace, who
heard the case against the grocers
boy, had suspended sentence upon him
thereby mourning the displeasure of
the Women's Club, of which Mrs. Mar
chant and the wives of all the Jurors
are members.
The daring grocer's boy was Harry
Brainard, who is employed in White
Plains and makes deliveries in Scars
dale. The maid whose beauty inspired
his rash act is Irene Barber.
She Was Just Too Pretty
No sooner had the grocer's boy. his
lips puckered in the whistle that has
been upon the lips Of ali proper
grocer's boys since the days of Charles
Dickens, laid eyes upon the beauteous
Irene than the whistle died upon his
lips and amazement and pleasure
dawned in his eyes.
Heed1oSo of fho fco&
within the very home of a prominent
member Of the Women's Club, needless
of everything save that within arms
reach was the prettest girl he ever had
laid eyes upon, the impulsive youth
dropped carton of eggs, bottle of
olives, can of kerosene and two of
peaches and embodied Irene in close
embrace.
This Involuntary reaction brought his
lips, still puckered about the ghost of
the whistle that died from shock. into
conjunction with the delectable left
eyebrow Of Irene, and the pucker ex-
ploded at the contact.
unfortunately for Harry his own
| appearance had not aroused reciprocal
emotions in Irene. To her he was just
grocer's boy and it embarrassed her
to be kissed by a grocer's boy.
She told Mrs. Marchant and Mrs.
Marchant told the other members of
the Women's Club, and they all agreed
that something ought to be done about
It,, When the Women's Club of Scars
dale decides that something ought to
be done, something generally is done.
Everybody Was There
A charge of assault in the third de.
gree was lodged against the impress
sionable Harry and Thursday night he
was arraigned for trial before Justice
of the Peace Mercer. Irene was there
and Mrs. Marchant was there, Mrs
Laura C. Burgess, a village trustee
and member of the Women's Club
was there and so was almost every.
body who amounts to anything in
Scarsdale.
So were their husbands, too. Glossy
motor cars were parked on all sides Of
the Town Hall and the side streets
adjacent were aglare with the lights OF
cars belonging to late arrivals. The
auditorium was fragrant with the per.
| fumes most popular in the Women's
Club and astir with the rustic of silk
and fans and the prominent shifts OF
prominent members of the Women's
Club as they cast disdainful glaaces at
that Don Juan Of q grocer's boy.
Five patrolmen in full uniform
hustled about Importantly, finding seats
we'll up in front for the most prom