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Show TWO LADIES AT WORK. City Policeman Explains Cause of Unusual Un-usual Gathering. Two lusty Italian women the other day were gathering into a pile a quantity quan-tity of refiiii) lumber being taken from a Philadelphia building preparatory prepara-tory tu making extensive alterations. Many of the sticks were too Ioiik to carry handily, to the daughtcis of King Victor Kmmnuucl wore rending them In pieces In arlous ways. If they did not yield by striking them across their knees, they placed them across the gutter and jumped upon them. The women were possessed of remarkable stiength and the ease with which they made kindling wood nttracted a crowd of fully 200 men and boys. As the sldewnlk was becoming be-coming blocked a policeman hastened to the scene and ordered everybody to move on. A gentleman happened to come upon the dissolving throng, and being curious to know the cause of the gathering, psked a white-whin-kered on of l.r'a vhnt it all meant. i "Sure, an It's only a couple uv Italian Ital-ian ladles In caking wood," lie replied. |
