Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — Embarrassing. [ARTICLE]

Embarrassing.

A young woman got on a Louisville street car carrying a number of bundles, and while taking her seat dropped her purse. A policeman sprang to help her search for it on the floor. Before he realized that she had already picked up her purse, he bent his head down to look under the seats. Across the car was a colored woman weighing about 300 pounds. She had remained passive during the whole proceeding. The man reached forward and grabbed what he thought was the lost purse. In doing so he discovered that he had grabbed the black rosettes that ornamented the colored woman’s shoes. To make the matter more embarrassing for the policeman she put both feet out before him and said aloud: “What’s you ’spose dat white man want’s to be pickin’ at my feet for?”