THE WOMAN WHO FALLS TO PIECES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 190, 11 August 1881, Page 1

THE WOMAN WHO FALLS TO PIECES.

She came to the station a little late, and she had to make a rush for the train. When she reached her seat her hat fell off. She got it on,- but it'toppled to 6n|e side, and when she tried tdstraighten it up her hair came tumbling down. She lost her ticket twice before^ the conduc r tor reached her. She reached up to put a bundle in the rack above her head, and burst, the collar button offherdus;ter and stuck her fingers on four pins iv her dress before she could find one she dared take out to repair the damage. Then just as she thought she had got comfortably settled her little hand valise; packed to bursting with enough thing^ to load a Saratoga trunk to the muzzle, exploded, and she nearly worked her^ self into : fragments: getting it together again. Then by the time she got the valise shut up her hat tumbled off again] and by the time she got her hat straightened back into its place, her hair tumbled down again, and as soon as she got her hair twisted up, and harpooned iv with a couple of hairpins, the valisei went off; at New Prague she tucked the gaping valise under her arm, and turned to arrange her toppling hat and; wandering hair with her hand, and as 1 she went fluttering and straggling in td the depot one couldn't help thinking that it would be safer and more convenient to run her in sections and flag! her against everything. I have seen; this woman On several other trains, andi she has never been able to /keep herself together. She keeps you in a state of agonising suspense, for you never know where she is going to give way next.—"Burlington Hawkeye,"