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Show AFRAID OF REVOLVING DOOR Luclnda Encountert Nlco Old Lady Waiting for Company In Her Passage, "Did you know," said Luclnda, "that thero aro people who aro afraid of revolving re-volving doors? No? Well, they aro, old people mostly. I mot one yesterday, yester-day, a nlco old lady. "She was standing nt tho inner Bido of one of these doors In a store, nnd I thought Bhe wnB waiting her turn to step Into ono of the compartments ns tho door revolved, nnd bo I stood there for a moment waiting for her to step In j but bIio let threo or four leaves nnd chances go by, and apparently appa-rently she wasn't going to step in, so Anally 1 brushed by her as gently as I could nnd Btepped In myself, nnd then as I stopped forward with tho door I felt somebody In the same compartment com-partment with me and I wnB sure It must bo tho old lady I had seen by the door whon I came up, and then I know It was she and thnt she bad been standing thore waiting for n chance to step In bohind nnd with somobody olso, nnd the next momont sho was saying to me: "You don't mind my coming In with you, do you?' and of courso I said 'Certainly not!' nnd then I Bteppod along carefully and deliberately so as not to hurry her, and I hold on to the bar In front so that nobody else In the door could hurry It and so hurry her, and then a moment later we both came out fre and all right, clear of the door on the sidewalk In front And the old lady said to me: "lam very much obliged to you. I am always afraid of thoae revolving doors,' and then ahe ami) on mo and went away. "That was a real experience, but I have known other people," said Luclnda, Lu-clnda, "who were afraid of the revolving re-volving doors." |