What A Mistake — She Had the Wrong Pocket

1903

Awful Mistake of the Pretty Girl In the Automobile Coat

A pretty girl wearing an automobile coat that reached to her heels, stepped aboard an Indiana avenue electric car at Thirty-first street the other day and took the only remaining seat, which was next to a man bundled in a great ulster. The atmosphere in the car was rather frigid, and the young woman felt about for her coat pockets, and finally shoved her hands deep down into the folds of the garment.

An instant later she felt a large gloved hand steal inside the pocket. It closed upon her own hand and gently pressed it. The pretty girl was enraged and turned upon the man at her side. The car was crowded with passengers and she did not wish to create a scene. She bit her lip, straightened up and looked directly ahead. Again the hand closed gently upon her own. She gave her arm a quick jerk and withdrew her hand from the pocket. The man, not the least abashed, also withdrew his hand.

Her fingers soon began tingling with cold and she slipped her hand into the pocket again. While she sat shivering she again felt a large gloved hand steal into the pocket. For a moment she sat quietly, and then the hand once more pressed her own. She would endure such a flirtation no longer. She thrust her hand deeper into the pocket and faced the man.

"Take your hand out of my pocket, sir," she said, in a fierce voice.

"Pardon me, miss," said the man, "but will you be so kind as to take your hand out of my pocket?

The young woman looked surprised, and with a jerk withdrew her hand. When she saw she had confused the folds of the two coats she blushed, signaled the conductor to stop the car, and fled toward the door. When the car stopped she stepped to the street, without, even turning to give the man an apologetic glance. — Chicago Inter-Ocean.