Show WHEN SMILES ARE impossible cominb pitiable plight on wet and windy day the utter absence of a sense of hu mor from the average feminine position is never more clearly visible says the pall mall budget than in a busy thoroughfare on a wet and windy day A woman may be a philosopher she may have original ideas and brilliant theories on the fundamental questions of morality and ethics but she rarely rises superior to a muddy boot or a draggled dragg led petticoat the woman is an exception indeed who manages to preserve a smiling face in the teeth of an cast wind which plays shuttlecock with her umbrella and a dreary sleet which bespatters bes patters her clothes and freezes her fingers young or old fair or plain scarcely one of them who does not frown ominously as she hurries along forgetful of other peoples feelings and umbrellas and toes hustling and jostling with never a glance for the absurdity of the situation for there is something gapingly tingly ga ridiculous about pedestrians on a really bad day nobody wants to walk on the outside of the pavement because of the splashing omnibuses omni buses and cabs everybody wants to pass everybody else regardless of the limited space afforded by the conglomeration of umbrellas everybody pushes and elbows and shoulders and when an umbrella appears in sight all considerations of gallantry or politeness or sex or age are forgotten it becomes an object lesson in the survival of the fittest and a free fight or something near it ensues in which the fair sex undoubtedly manage to bear their part with more than a tolerable grace dr miles pain puls one cent a dd |