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Show HOOK WAS THERE TO STAY Both Fisherman and Qlrl -With Oor ' geous Hat Displeased at 8ome- what Unusual Happening. It was Sunday ovenlng, and tho Inbound In-bound Broad Illpplo car was packed with a happy but worn-out crowd of pleasure seekers. On the back platform plat-form were a number of fishermen with their rods and minnow buckets. A back soat, "rosorved" for smokors, but generally occupied by women, contained con-tained the usual number. Ono of tho women wore a hat that must have been tho envy of all tho others. If all tho fcathors on It wero taken from ono ostrich, that unfortunate bird must bo In retirement, for ho certainly has no clothing left A hook attached to a lino on a four-foot four-foot polo dangled dangerously near tho creation of tho milliner's art and final-ly final-ly caught It Unconscious of what was to como, tho owner of tho hat, os well as tho owner of tho hook and Itno, rodo blissfully along. At Sixteenth Six-teenth stroot tho fisherman started to leavo tho car, and ns ho did so tho hat and about 80 cents worth of falso balr started with him. Tho young woman, shorn of hor adornment, uttered n ahrfok, sprang to her feet and clawed tho atmosphere wildly. Sympathetic passungors hur-rled hur-rled to tho rescue, but tho hook was thero to stay. Nearly two embarrassing embarrass-ing minutes wero lost boforo tho conductor con-ductor took an nctlvo part. Then ho drew his pocket kulfe and cut tho lino despite tho protest of its owner. The car finally proceeded, tho fisherman went on his way, muttering, and tho young woman rodo to tho center of the city with a turtle hook and about a foot of Hue attached to hor hat. 'V'Thafs getting tho hook all right," Bald a passenger. Tho young woman looked daggora because everybody laughed. Iudlun-' Iudlun-' apolls News. |