Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — Appearances Are Deceitful. [ARTICLE]

Appearances Are Deceitful.

A very tall girl, wearing a Mother Hubbard dress, stepped on a platform scales at Coney Island, and informed the proprietor that she wished to be weighed. He placed a 200-pound weight on the hook, and the suddenness with which it came down frightened, him. Then he tried a 150-pound weight with the same result. “Strange,” he muttered, with a perplexed look at the girl, “something must be wrong with the scales. ” Finally, after repeated attempts, he informed her, in a dubious tone of voice, that she weighed just eighty-nine pounds. “Thank yOu,” she said, handing bin. the nickel. “I seem to be gaining,” and she tripped away. Then the amazed scaleman looked after her and remarked: “Some young fellow will get terribly fooled by that Mother Hubbard dress.” —New York Sun.