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Show FINGERS ALL THUMBS. Pi:t as lie Carried a Toothpick in Ills ea.eutii He Deserved Nr I'ity. "Did tou ever observe,'' said a well-known well-known St. Louisan recently, "what funnv tilings a man will lo when he is ce.nmsod or suddenly cmbarraascd? V. ell. I have paid a great deal of alien-lion alien-lion to the matter, nr.d I think the amusement I have had well worth my .i .. . i a" oilier day I was riding- out to- 1 i west end on a crowded street Co . ."-el I noticed a handsomely dressed j n an win li-.d a t-.nthr-iek ia his ! i -a'a He whistled . a little as well as he could with the tootnmek and appeared ap-peared absolutely imperturbable Then lie decided he would take a smclre, winch he had a right to do, being on the rear end of the front car. "He took frpm one pocket a cigarette ? r.d from the other a match, and at that critical moment the conductor demanded de-manded his fare. The gyrations of that i young man were a social study. With : the cigarette in one hand, his match in ! the other, and his toothpick in his , mouth, and two pretty girls observing him intently, the result could hardly have been otherwise than ludicrous, "He first undertook to put the cigarette cigar-ette in his mouth, by which operation he stuck his finger on the toothpick. Then he put the toothpk-k in his pocket id dropped the match, lly an extraordinary extraor-dinary effort he regained the match and endeavored to regain the toothpick and find tho nickel. "This caused the loss of his cigarette, and by this time everybody in the car had begun to titter. As a last resort the young man stuck the match in his mouth, put the toothpick in his left hand, dropped the nickel, and offered the conductor his cigarette." |
