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■ THE ITALIAN IMMIGRANT.
Gets an Immense Amount of Pleasure
from Unexpected Sources—A
I Clothes-Reel Comedy.
The Italian immigrant has a
happy gift of extracting pleasure
from unexpected sources, so many
commonplace objects of his new
home are yet wonders to him. A
woman who lives in a pretty su
burban residence, the long garden
of which runs back to a small
court upon which a row of tene
ment houses has just been erect
ed, discovered this recently when
she found a group of dark-eyed,'
dirty little boys dancing ecstat
ically on the platform of her
clothes dryer.
They were cheering on a daring
I comrade, who was clinging to the ;
I outer cross bar of the reel, relates
i the loutli’s Companion. One of i
liis mates had set it spinning, aud
the other boy was dizzily gyrat
i ing aloft, mingling his excited
squeals of joy with the creaks and
groans of the overburdened ma
j chine. Even as she looked there
j was an ominous snap, and the fly
ing cherub came suddenly to earth
at her feet, where he sat softly
rubbing himself and staring up at
her, too dazed f o cry. For the sake
of their own youthful bones she
I thought it a case for severity, and
began to scold the intruders as
j sternly as she knew how, conclud
ing rather helplessly with an im
patient, “Whatever made you do
: such a silly thing, anyhow? An
swer me, can’t you?”
! “
; “Bullafuna, signorina!” whim
j pered the fallen one. And it was
not until the remark was trans
Ilated by an Irish youngster, who
j was peeping through the fence, I
that she learned what the Italian
bid mpnnf
!!! “Sure, lie says it’s bully fun,”
I the Irish boy interpreted.
Arguments and remonstrances
quite failed to overcome the dan
I gerous fascination of such a de
lightful gymnastic apparatus. The
woman had finally to take it down
and resort to the ancient and in
convenient clothes-line instead.
A far funnier case of perverted
entertainment occurred lately in
a Connecticut town in which the
drawbridge tender complained to
the police that the Italian resi
dents had fallen into the habit of
riding on the draw as if it were a
merry go round.
■ “Sometimes there’s as many aS
| 500 of them,” he complained; “so
, many that the draw won’t work
properly, and it most kills me try
ing to turn the crank. When I
holler at them to get off, they just
holler back, and don’t budge. They
aren’t ugly, but they won’t mind.
Thejr all come — mothers and
babies, fellows and girls, and
sometimes they bring a hurdy
gurdy and dance while the bridge
swings round. It’s fun for them,
but it’s death to me. It’s got to
be stopped or I’ll resign. The
city didn’t hire me to run a whirli
gig side show to a circus.”
HE GETS A MONEY ORDER.
With the Money He Doesn’t Want to
Spend When Out with
| the Boys.
I “One of the queerest things 1
! ever heard of,” said a young man,
I who sometimes keeps late hours,
relates the Providence Journal,
“is the action of a friend of mine.
who has a knack of saving, despite
the fact that sometimes when he
meets a friend he celebrates too
much. He always, after he has
; had a few drinks and realizes that
he will take more before the end
of the evening, takes an account of
stock, as you may say. He finds
a corner somewhere and there
figures up the amount of cash on
hand. Then he starts for the post
office.
“When he gets there he buys a
money order, payable to himself,
for an amount equal to the great
er part of the sum he has on hand.
This done, he mails the order to
himself, and then, certain of sav
ing that much of his money, at
least, through the evening, he
starts out to resume the joyous oc
cupation of enjoying himself. It
is a great scheme, and one I never
heard of anyone else using. It
works very well, indeed, with him.
I have seen men give a part of
I their money to a bartender to take
care of for them, but this scheme
of buying a money order for your
self beats that. And you can get
*a money order at the Providence
post office any hour of the night,
tlATO W
Now is the time to make Yot*r Home Merry, and you can
do so if yot< will buy
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