Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1896 — SHE WAS EXPANSIVE. [ARTICLE]

SHE WAS EXPANSIVE.

Seats Were Too Crowded When She Was Fully Rigged Out. He looked troubled as he pushed two matinee tickets through the box office window and asked: “Can you give me two more seats next to those?” The ticket seller hastily looked through a bundle of tickets that he took from one of the little pigeon-holes in front of him and shook his head. “I can give you two seats just in front of them,” he said. “Won’t do,” replied the man in front of the window. “Can you take these back and give me four in the row just ahead?” “No; there are only two left there,” answered the ticket seller. “I don’t see how I am going to arrange it,” said the man who wanted the tickets, thoughtfully. “I must have three seats together.” “Three!” exclaimed the ticket seller. “I thought you wanted four together?” “I do,” returned the other, “but that isn’t absolutely necessary. If I can get three together I can sit somewhere else myself.” “I should think It would be pleasanter to divide the party evenly,” suggested the man in the box office. “It would,” admitted the man outside of It, “but it can’t be done. You evidently don’t understand the case. You see, I bought these tickets with the Intention of taking a young lady to the matinee, and it never occurred to me that I would need more than two seats.” “Overlooked the chaperon, I suppose?” . “Chaperon nothing! When I pay for a chaperon there’ll be skating In August. I overlooked the fashions—that’s what I overlooked. I saw her last night in the gown she expects to wear, axid now I am trying to buy a seat for each of the sleeves. That’s why I must have at least three seats in a row. If you can give them to me, trot them out; if you can’t, say so, and Fll send word to her that I .Am and give my tickets to someone else.”— Philadelphia Times.