THE WOMEN WHO FALLS TO PIECES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 650, 14 March 1879, Page 2

THE WOMEN WHO FALLS TO PIECES.

SHE came to the station a little late', and had to make a rush for the train. When she reached Her seat her hat fell off. She got it on but toppled over on one side, and when she tried to straighten it'iip her hair came tumbling' down. She lost her ticket twice before the conductor reached her, and would have lost it again, if he . hadn't taken it away from Her. She l reached '-up to put a bundle m the rack above her head, and burst the collar, 'button . off; her duster and stuck her fingers on" four pindin herTdress, iefor^jihej; sould find one that she dare take out to repair the damage. . Then, just, has she; thought she had got comfortably settled,? hdr little hand Valise, packed' to bursting with enough things t6 load a Saratoga trunk to the muzzle, exploded and she near j worked herself into fragments, putting it together again. Then by the time she got the value shut up, her hat tumbled / off again, and by the time she got the hat straightened back into its place, her hair tumbled down again, and as soon as she had got Her Hair, twisted up, and harpooned with a couple of her pins, the valise went off, and when she got off at New- Prague, she tucked the gaping valise under her arm, and tried to corral her toppling hat and wandering? hair with one hand, and as ahe went fluttering atidistraggling into the * depot, one couldn't help thinking that it would be safer and more convenient to run her m sections and flag her against everything. I have seen this woman m several > other trains, and she has never been able to herself together. She keeps you m a state of agonising suspence, for you never know when Bhe is going to give i Way next.— Hawkeye .<•