Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — Circumstances Alter Cases. [ARTICLE]

Circumstances Alter Cases.

“As a general thing,” said a man, “it is an annoyance to have anybody sitting alongside of you or back of you look over at the paper you are reading; still, it makes a difference who it is. I have seen a man who was reading a pa. er hold it carefully so that another person oould read it. I saw a case of this sort the other day in a railroad car. A lady who had been sitting looking out of the window leaned forward suddenly to look at something In the newspaper which the gentleman in the seat in front of her was reading. He had just turned a page, and something on the fresh page caught her eye. It appeared to interest her greatly. It was a long article, and she could not have read more than half of it if the gentleman had net moved the paper a little to one side, which he did apparently quite unconsciously, keeping on reading all the time himself and holding the paper very steady. At last the lady finished the article that she was reading. With a she leaned back in her seat again and looked out of the window once more, all the time quite oblivious of the man. He didn’t flop the paper over as though the end of an episode had come; he looked again at one or two articles on that page, and then turned to the next one, just as though nothing had happened.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.