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Show ESCORT COULDN'T SEE JOKE Incident at Coney Island That Prob ably Taught Confetti Thrower a Lesson He Needed. A large well-dressed man and a handsome woman were in the Mardi Gras crowd at Coney island, New York. They had been waiting some time for the parade and the woman began to yawn. Now yawning is a very unladylike performance in public, pub-lic, and rather a dangerous one in a Coney island crowd, for while the woman had her mouth wide open and was getting all the worth there Is to be had out of a good healthy yawn a young man bent on mischief threw a handful of confetti right plump into tha orifice. The woman coughed and spluttered, splut-tered, and the hoodlum shrieked with delight. Those about him thought it was a grand joke, too all but the woman's escort He reached out one powerful arm and grabbed the skylark ing youth by the shoulder. Then he brought his fist down on the young man's straw hat, crushing it and driving driv-ing his head through the crown and partly over his ears. Next he turned the young man around and kicked him with all the force and swiftness that outraged dignity and fierce anger to gether with great strength afforded If that youth recovers from that kick and throws confetti again he will be careful in picking his target. And. maybe, the handsome woman if she yawns again in a hurry will not do sg in such a mob as turns out to see e Coney island celebration. |