Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1890 — She Will Not Pe Familiar. [ARTICLE]

She Will Not Pe Familiar.

What strikes the pilgrims from otherlands, writes a Philadelphia Pretty, correspondent, is the predominance of” women in Boston. Women everywhere—in the restaurants, "behind the lunch', counters, in the shops, in the offices,, women seem to be doing all the work. I don’t find any fault with this arangement. They are more civil than themen. I only wish they could becomestieet car conductors. Probably they may some day. Down here at Nantasket Beaeh you find the same abundance* of the fair sex. They preside at the popcorn booths with all the dignity of long.' lineage and great mental developmentForeigners from New York or Chicago, ignorant of the customs of the country,. sometimes make an effort to be pleasant with these young ladies. The result is always disastious to the foreigners. “111 wait upon you, but I’ll not be > familiar with you!” That’s the shibboleth of the Boston > serving lady. I was much amused at the attempt of one of these “foreigners” just mentioned to bestow a small fee upon one* of these young women, She drew herself up with all the hauteur of familypride—for no doubt her name was Winthrop, or Adams, or Hancock, or Winslow—and then she remarked: “Excuse me, sir, we are liberally re- - warded for our services by the corporate lessees of the beach, and, conse quently, the offer of any gratuity is entirely a supererogatory act.” Them turning to a small boy, she murmured-: “Johnny, accept the gentleman’s', nickel. “We keep him for that purpose, ini order not to offend those who may be* strangers in Boston. Crushed steel—made by crushing in. a stamp-mill high-carbon steel quenched in cold water from an extensively high temperature—is being used for cutting stone It is very hard, andj cheaper and more effective than emery. “Why don’t you live in more’fashionable quarters?” “I haven’t got thedollars.”