The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-20
STUBBORN WOMEN

dollar per pair, and the store
was beseiged by women shoppers
after the bargains. The pairs of
shoes were split, the right shoe
put on a table for the women to
paw over and the left shoe re-
manned in the box on the shelves.
One woman dug a right shoe
out of the pile, cornered clerk,
and tried it on. She: liked the
shoe and gave the clerk her dol
lar. He went in search of the
left shoe. He found the box all
right but it was empty. He was
searching diligently through 9TH
er boxes for the missing shoe
when he bumped into another
clerk who was also searching the
boxes for the mate to complete
pair of shoes for his customer.
The two clerks compared shoes
and found that each one held the
mate to the other shoe. Both
clerks had been paid for one pair
of shoes. What to do! They re-
turned to their women custom
ers. Neither woman would give
up the idea of that particular pair
of shoes. The argument became
heated, then noisy. The store
manager was called. fashion
he suggested tossing a coin to set
tie it. They nearly threw him
out of his own store.
Determined that the other
woman should never get that par
ticular pair of shoes and having
already paid their separate dol
lars, each woman grabbed a shoe,
one the right, the other the left.
and stubbornly they left the
store, by different doors.
Penetrator is stubborn, too.
Plaster is going to stick on the
ceiling even if she comes out of
the ordeal looking like plaster
statue herself. We know, we
tried it. We got more plaster in
our hair and eyes and on the
floor than on the ceiling But
we did get some ceilings plaster
ed although we have several more
to plaster. So we have an in
vention in mind for puny paster
pugilistS such as Penetrator. We
hope to free the world from plas-
! ter on the floor that belongs on
the ceiling. We are going to mix
iron filings with the plaster, thus
making it metallic We will place
magnets in the attic along the
lathes, then we will put the plas-
ter on the floor and let the iron
lied plaster and magnets do the
rest.
This one was a stubborn WOm-
an, in the making, at the age of
| two and a half. Her mother had
explained to her many times that
the fronds of their beautiful fern
would die if touched on the ends.
/ The little one had been Scolded
and spanked on various occasions
for touching the fern. One day
the mother heard the child
screaming loudly and she ran to
investigate There stood the
child, in the living room, clutch
ing as many fern fronds as she
could hold in both her tiny fists,
squeezing them as strongly as she
could, and CRYING great tears
ahead of time, for the spanking
she knew was coming.
For four years their routine
had been the same. first she let
the dog out for his morning run.
then she made the coffee and
breakfast toast while her hus-
band shaved. While he poured
the coffee she fixed a plate for
breakfast for the dog. and the dog
scratched on the kitchen door
asking to come in. Breakfast
over. all three drove to the sta
ton in the car. and the husband
took the commuters train to the
city. She and the dog returned
home to share their day. Thus it
had been for four years.
Then came a hot August morn
ing, following a stuffy hot Aug
ust night. Even at the early hour
when she let the dog out for his
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