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ATHENS BANNER : SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 3,1891
OF WOMEN ON THE ROAD
character SKETCHES BY NELLIE
F. STOWELL
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Amy of Thmml
|Coi>Triffbt. UM. by
sort ot thing, and will be u long ae
then ia a young couple left in it
The more mature bride never gashes.
She wean her old clothes, minima an
air at indifference quite at variance with
her feeling,; la perfectly certain that no
one would dnaan that dw ia a bride, and
when they go into the dining car ehe
aaya, oh, ao innocently, “My dear, do
yon like yoorataak rare or welldoneT
Then the people in the teats nearest
them look at each other and langh softly,
k) The pretty woman keeps her eyee wide
ENTRAL Short to tee who it admiring her. She it
line! All aboard r rain and rather snaoeptible, and when the
The voice tinge comet into the car the takes in the occu-
through the panta at one glance. If there it a vacant
itation, and seat Dear Borne good looking young fd-
every syllable of ‘ low the slips into it and triee to look sur-
the words it u prised because the it to near him. She
distinct as the always wants a window lowered or a
notes of a cornet. | blind raised, and somebody most do it
for her. She says “Thank you” in a
demnre, childish fashion, and indulges
in the “baby stare” at frequent intervals.
The vicious woman watches her
HE CRAWLED THROUGH.
Mr. lt*H, DM It la Twa HtoMa sad ■
Hath
Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Boggs ware in
volved in a heated diwwttion at to the
width of a pane of glass broken oat at
the south window of their kitchen.
“That pane of glass, "said Jwr. Boggs
resolutely, “is big enough to throw a
cow through by the barns; it is twenty
inches wide by twenty-one.”
“And 1 know,” Mrs. Boggs retorted,
“that it isn't a bit over one foot wide,
and hardly that."
So, instead of adjusting their quarrel
by measuring the casement, they argued
until Mr. Boggs offered to buy Mrs. B.
the best silk dress in town if he failed to
crawl through the empty casement within
three minutes.
“You'll just get stuck fast. Hugo, and
I'll have to call in the neighbors to saw
you out.” wailed his wife: “see if you
don't."
“Nonsense, woman; I'll be through be
fore yon can wink."
Just at this point little Willy, who was
ruffle the calm of the domestic sea. She
attracts his attention as thongh by aoci-
j dent, then tbauks him in the most of
fensive fashion
“Central Short— No, madam; this is
the Ontral, not the Northern."
"lint they told me the train left at ex
actly twenty minutes to eight, and
it - *" ' chance, and if a man she knows comes
•Ticket, please. Now, ma.ism, JoaT into the station with his wife she is mis- sobbing as the result of a recent cellar
train doesn't leave tar thirty minutes erable until she has done something to ; interview with his father, crept quietly
I m a%- * s *1 a i j rvv t a L a L ^**..«
yet.
"lint maybe there's some mistake, for
they told tne”
••Central Short line! All aboard! Bob,
go and help that old lady out to her
train. By George! 1 forgot her. Hurry
up, shell lie left. Madam, will you
stand bark? I have told you twice that
this isn't your trnin. llurry up. Bob.
Hold on there, conductor. Here, porter,
give us a hand. Carefully now—here's
>onr parcels—all right."
The conductor stood with his hand on
the ts-ll cord, while the trainmen care
fully lifted upon the steps a fat old lady,
with the usual big liox, little box, band-
Iki.x and bundles. Her bonnet was tilted
over to one side, and her shawl dragged
le-lnnd her until one of the men picked
out the house.
Boggs stripped himself of coat and
vest, and from a perch on a soap box
began to wriggle through the window,
for some trivial j He was right about the sire of the open-
service or court- , ing, and everything went on nicely until
esy, declares she he undertook to rest himself by placing
shall never for- bis hands on the cellar door, winch, uu-
get it or him, and der ordinary circumstauces, was situated
makes so much of directly beneath this window, about two
it that the wife feet down. In this extraordinary case
wonders who this the doer had been carefully folded back
is and how any- by parties unknown,
thing so import- Boggs reached out wildly for it and
ant can have hap- missed. His 250 pounds had started
pened and she earthward, however, and nothing could
know nothing head him off.
about it; so she j “Bet yon two to one dad wins, moth
tiie hungry wohan. questions her I erl” shouted little Willie from a seat on
up lls* trailing corner and threw it over husband, and the more he denies and \ the l* ne fence.
her shoulder. I disclaims the more certain she grows; “Stop him, "Willie, stop him!” shrieked
Meanwhile woman No. 1 had hunted ! that there is something, and at iast is j Mr?. Boggs,
up the train superintendent, and de- j fully convinced that all is not well. “Not much! Think I'm goin’t’ inter-
c hired that the fellow at the door! The mischief maker promenades up ferein a square race? Go it, dad; you're
wouldn’t let her go to her train. He ex- I and down, with an occasional glance to * winner!”
amined her ticket, and after assuring j see what is the result of her arrows, and “Bump! bump! smash!” Mr. Boggs
her that the doorman was right passed rejoices the more so if she is not on good w a® through. _ _
on. Thirty-live seconds later by the , terms with the wife. | “O-o-o-hl. rm sure Hugo’* killed."
Here is a woman whose home would j sobbed Mrs. Boggs,
be a sty if she lived in her proper place. ' "1 w o minutes n thirty-two seconds,"
She is generally a heavy weight pbysi-' said little \\ illie, thrusting his birthday
cally, and if she takes a fancy to a seat • watch into his hip pocket—New York
watch she was at the ticket window,
asking why she was told that hertraiu
time was twenty minutes of eight when
it wasn't.
Half an hour later, when the doorman
railed out “Passengers for tho Northern!
All aboard!” she sailed up to the door,
the most intense scorn depicted on her
countenance, and without a glance at
the guardian of the portal whisked out
of i ho building. An amused smile at the
superintendent was the only comment.
A rustle, a rush, ami in came a grena
dier sort of woman, followed by a small
uiiH'k man. The woman glanced at the
1 she manages to get it Regardless of
the comfort of the occupant, she settles
hereelf into the seat, fills up all available
space with bundles and boxes and
squirms and crowds and wriggles. Of
course there is nothing to do but give
her the entire seat, which is exactly the
object she had in view when she crowded
in there.
Sometimes this woman has money
World.
j - 5; gage of the w»ut-
I liing passengers,
'.slid wreaths of
' anger find ctisgrwT
began to entwine
themselves hIkiui
■slier massive-
'brow. 8be stalk-
veil over to the
"door which led to
the trains, shook
it with such vio-
ABosnn! Itneo as to make
the hinges clatter, attempted to raise the
ticket offlcc W'Ttdov.-, fifrt ft.
tried to open tire office door. Then will
a suitr of rage she turned to Ut#r husband
and exclaimed in a tone Intendt'd to be
tragic- “Do sit down! You've made us
miss tho train, and now 1 suppose you
ate satisfied. Go home? 1 guess not!
Yon are going to sit hero for five hours
and study the boantica of delay and
waiting. You wtiutol to taaito while
ago, and now I'll mm that, jtou »‘t your
fill of it.”
•B-b-but. my dear, wo started early
enough.”
•Don’t ‘dear" tne; t don’t foal lu the
humor for it; and don’t treat me to rea-
«>vus when you have “spoiled my day's
An Expected Gneat-
Mrs. McLuck—My darter Sally said
there was a gentleman wanted to see
me, so I come right down 'thout stoppin'
to fix up, ’cause I s’pose y’r carriage is
waitin’: but 1 just want to say, furstoff,
thet the -report in the morning papers
about us falling heir to a fortune was
published ’thout my consent: and the
and good clothes, and is met among fact is, we hnin't got the money yet; and
clock, the door, j first class passengers. She monopolizes . we can’t accept any invites to balls an’
the ticket win- i the dressing room, stands in the passage- I parties an' receptions an' things fora
• dnw and the lug- j ways until she sees fit to move, fills up month yet at least. You're Mr. Afitor-
i the door,'covers the chairs and seats' bilt, ain't von? Or—beggin’y’r pardon—
| with her belongings, and one is inclined uiebb.v v’r Mister McGalluster?’
j to fancy that she hikes advantage of the Stranger (a man wuo understands his
I motion of the cars to step on the toes of business)—On! I see—1 see how it is,
her' fellow passengers jost to see how j madam. Yon wish a little time to—to
uncomfortable she can make them. j moilnl the death of ihe wealthy relative;
The talkative woman rarely goes ont of course, of course. I—er—really didn't
alone, or if she does she at once makes . suppose you were quite ready to attend
some acquaintances, and entertains the i the—er—brilliant social functions, but
people in her vicinity with the minutest ' i just dropped in for a friendly chat;
details of her own and her neighbors' and. by the way. here is something 1
affairs—how her cousin's wife’s sister
quarreled with her whole family because
die had “steady company” and they
iung in that | didn’t like him, and she ran away with
him; how Mrs. Snaggs and her husband
make each other miserable; how Matilda
Jane is getting on with her mother-in-
law, and a fall digest of poor Kath
erine Ann’s symptoms, which are ex
plained in great detail.
The hungry woman munches apples,
oranges, candy, sandwiches and peanuts,
and shakes the debris upon the floor
about her feet
The careless woman is always late and
fairly tumbles onto the train. The con-
doctor and trainman come in after her
and bring her parcels, and sometimes her
wraps and handkerchief. In a tone quite
audible to one-third of the passengers
she declares that
NOTHING LIKE HI
Sti-; sea!** 1 herself on the end of tbr
bench moat remote from her gentle
ifpou.-o, ami literally threw hereelf Into
the [>ages of the Financial Review and
Stock JobWt.
The womau who travels i* always
unique. There are mteny of her, and the
dear creature is always entertaining.
She is sometimes aniasing and occasion
ally quite the reverse, but we are never
oblivious of her vagaries; neither do we
turn n deaf ear to her chatter or her
grievances, or fail to be edified by her
giNxl sense or her wisdom.
If on a cold, stormy day she walks the
platform ontside of the waiting room
rather than be smothered by the fumes
tobacco or drowned in its juice, no
body feels like interfering with her. It's
a free country, and women are growing
wonderfully independent. Let her walk
in the cold if she wants to.
Sometimes a bride is one of the prom-
enadera. She don’t come ont to get away
from the smoke. Oh, no; she wouldn’t
know there
she got ready in
each a hurry that
she wonders if she
is all here, and
having gathered
up her belongings
proceeds to finish
her toilet She
takes off her bon- 1
net, polls all of
the pins ont of
her back hair and
bolds them in her moxopolt or tux dhkss-
way.
brought with me—something which all
the ladies ef tho Four Hundred are
using, ami it occurred to me that yon
would like to buy one or more, so 1—er
—brought ’em along. Here they are.
madam—our -'“w patent Ebony-iron
Last-Fwever drying Pan. only fifty
cents, hree for a dollar.—New York
Weekly.
The Shad keiuon.
J
with “teddy. is no one to hear
their pretty little billing and pooing. She
looks up in his face with the expression
of a chicken drinking water, and be gives
her a quick, sharp little hug which he is
certain no one sees.
The crusty old married man aaya,
“M-n-y-ah, silly fools! They’ll get over
teeth, combs her era boom.
locks with her fingers, twists up the front
into a pigtail and trice to hold that also
in her month with the pins. Having
finished this portion of her toilet she re
arranges her collar, squirms herself into
her drees and tries to smooth out the
wrinkles, then subsides into the comer
of tjie seat and reads "Lora* Doone” or
one of the Duchess' novels.
The flirty woman is usually the center
of a group of swains who want some
thing to kill time, and find this the most
any emoke unless convenient and agreeable means. She
it was so thick sits with her hack to the window and
that it entirely right and left One man has his
hid the face of arrnaoo the back of the seat she occupies,
her “ownliest another is lounging on the arm, and a
own,” and then third is in the seat in front She fills
she would be space in the public need, for she keeps
frightened and young and growing fellows oat of the
wonder if there smoking car and away from the dgar-
was an eclipse, ette.
Slie likes to walk There is much to be said of the gentlo-
with her “Teddy ! woman, although ehe takes up but little
dear,” for there , room in pabUc conveyances and attracts
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