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Show 8TAIR8 WERE STRANGE TO HER. Old Lady's First Experience with the Puzxllng Escalator. She was a very much bewildered, thoroughly vexed old lady as she stood at the top of the ascending escalator es-calator at the One Hundred and Twen ty-ninth street subway station and Industriously In-dustriously tried to make her way to the bottom of the staircase. She had carefully stepped down and then, before be-fore she could get to the next step, found herself back where she started from. "Nu!" Bhe grumbled and, hitching hitch-ing her big bundle more firmly under her arm, she grasped her short petticoat petti-coat firmly In the other hand and started start-ed down again. A second return to her starting place raised her Ire, and with a "bound-to gettho-bestofthls" expression she eyed the platform venomously .and for the third time plunged Into tho perplexing problom. "Donnerwotternochamahl!" she then shouted as she was firmly and smoothly smooth-ly brought back. "Vat iss It rait dem stairs? Dey go up und up und upl How goes It down?" And thou sho was taken by tho nrm and guided to tho descending staircase. stair-case. New York Times. |