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Show 'Twas a Lady Asking Observance of Etiquette The politician, sporting a brand new hat, stepped upon a soapbox in one of the city's toughest districts. dis-tricts. "Ladies and gentlemen," he began. be-gan. That was as far as he got. An overripe tomato sped from the second sec-ond floor of a tenement house and landed squarely on the politician's face. The startled speaker looked up and discovered a sullen-faced woman glaring down at him from a second-story window. "Madam," complained the politician, poli-tician, "what's the idea of assaulting assault-ing me with a tomato?" "That will teach you, mister," she scowled, "to take your hat off when addressing a lady!" |