Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1901 — In a Smoking Car. [ARTICLE]

In a Smoking Car.

A lady of a truly masculine spirit, accompanied by a small poodle, is said tc have failed sadly the other day in an attempted reformatory movement. She entered the smoking car of a suburban

train and sternly refused, when approached by the conductor, to go into another car, observing that her presence would keep the other occupants from smoking. One thick-skinned wretch, however, insensible to the claims of refinement and reform, began to enjoy his accustomed cigar, which was suddenly snatched from his lips, with the remark in a high treble: “If there is anything I do hate it Is tobacco smoking!” For a time the offender was motionless, then, gravely rising, amid the curiosity of the assembled smokers, he took that little poodle out of the lady’s lap and gently threw him through the window, sighing: “If there is anything I do hate it is a poodle.”