| Show passengers rAS ON A STREET CAR WEEP EYES FILL WITH TEARS YET THEY ARE NOT SAD AMUSING LITTLE COMEDY women try to hide the r emot on while leaking bottle of For malde hyde from under a seat con finues to do its duty omaha A health department at tache a bottle of four housewives a hospital hos hosi lital ital nurse and a conductor got out of the rut the other morning in a sherman avenue street car and sustained the action of an amusing little corned E C damon of the city health de apartment part ment was le ie turning on the car with his fumigating tools and anad loosened the stol per of a bottle of formaldehyde which he placed inside the car while he enjoyed the scenery aiom the bear platform four women inside the car soon began to think there was something wrong with their lachrymal glands as the escaping formaldehyde addressed both their olfactory and optical nerves four women were drying their eyes with their handkerchiefs and the con ductor was in such a state of mind and vision he could not direct his punch to any intelligible place on the trans fers requested outside damon was smoking his pipe and enjoying the scenery the bottle of formaldehyde was in a straw hamper and the odor escaped through I 1 that receptacle when the car reached the wise me morial mortal hospital on sherman avenue a nurse from that institution boarded the car she quickly detected the na ture of the odor and was amused at the effects it had caused on her fel low passengers her first impulse was to think that the conductor was fumigating some tainted money he had received so for the minute she dismissed the matter from her mind at seventeenth and dark clark streets a stout woman got on the car and with some soine effort made her way vay to a seat she looked around the car with amaze ment and presently her perspective was blurred buildings familiar to her since childhood no longer presented their farmei a aspect hect she thought she was becoming faint she asked that the car be stopped as she wanted to wall anyway the conduct oi tiled to reach for the bell cord but he grabbed the cash fare reg ister and registered up 16 fares before the tat fat woman left the car in a few minutes the nurse began to think the conductor was either fumi gating a national bank or that some ot of the passengers had broken a bottle ol 01 their eyes filled with tears formaldehyde in a pocket she looked around for some clew to the mystery on the rear platform she recognized damon as a man man she had seen at a house that was f imi imitated gated she saw the hamper in the car and looked up her book of rules the an awer was quickly forthcoming damon was profuse in his apologies and promised never neer never again to al at low such a thing to happen it is is enough to make a lady cry re remarked marked one of the four tinned as she left the car at cuming street |
