Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1913 — He Was Just Over, but He Will Learn in Time [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

He Was Just Over, but He Will Learn in Time

PITTSBURGH, around the Pennsylvania station are laughing over the story told by one of the conductors on a through train who had a little experience with a young Englishman on his w T ay to Mexico the

othe’r morning. Reginald was typically British and evidently off his native heath for the first time in his life. He had landed from the liner in the forenoon, in New York, and was taking the first evening train for the southwest. Therefore he was not in the least familiar with the intrica- 1 cies of the up-to-date steel sleeping car. “Rummy little diggings” was what he said when shown his berth, and the net for his clothTng ! catching his eye, he “lawfed” and exclaimed: . “Clever idea; to catch me if I fall out of bed, | what?” But it was in the morning that his troubles be- ! gan. Like most untraveled Britishers, he did not like to ask questions and he did not want to make a fuss so, when he awoke and found that he did not .have much time until the train would be in

Pittsburgh, he tried to figure a way to make his toilet in his “rummy little diggins.” He found it impossible. Like Columbus! breaking the egg to stand it on end, he cut the Gordian knot by stepping boldly into the aisle in hU sleeping clothes and started to dress from his sox upward and outward. Most of the other passengers were up and sitting around and the calm indifference of the Britisher, stripped almost to “the buff” in the midst, caused a little whirlpool of panic—especially among the women. One woman wanted to know, rather aggressively, what he means. He smiled affably through the neckband of his shirt, as it slipped over his head, and asked: “Well, by, Jove!» Tell mo how you put on your trousers in your berth?” This answer resulted in a call for the conductor who tells the story, out, by the time he arrived, tbe Britisher was more than half dressed and fairly presentable.