The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-07-21
JUST WHAT SHE DESERVED.
A Lesson for Many People.

IL satchel and lunch basket and bird
cage and plant and waterproof cloak-so
many things along with you in your car
seatP"
"Yes, sir, must" af
"Why must you, Aliceq 1t is not cold
to-day, and there is no danger of its rain
ing. You will not need your cloak, and
you probably will not unstrap it, Can't
you put it i'll your trunk, or manage sonle-
how to take fewer bundles into your seat
with youP'
"No, Uncle John, cannot. My trunk
is crammed so full now that l fear the lock
will burst"
Well, Alice, if you must take so many
packages with you, want to suggest to
you to be careful how you dispose of them,
Don't attempt to occupy two seats, when
you have paid for only one, if some one else
wants the other"
"That will depend greatly, Uncle John,
upon who it is that wants a seat with me,
replied Miss Alice, with a naughty toss of
her head. 81 certainly shall not put my
things under my feet nor load my lap un-
comfortably to accommodate some ordi-
nary-looking man OR fussy old woman
One half Of the men nowadays would just
as lief oblige young lady to do it as not.
They are not gallant at all; they ought to
be ashamed of themselves. l have heard
women-good women they were too--say
that the seat beside them was engaged,
when they had got their things placed and
didn't wish to remove them, because
they didn't fancy the looks of the person
who wanted the seat, when l knew that
they had no friend that was coming in to
take the place. didn't blame them at
all, Uncle John. shouldn't hesitate to
say the same myself under the circum-
stances. 1t wouldn't be telling an untruth.
If all of these packages were on it, it
would be taken, wouldn't it ?''
"Pshaw pshaw Alice. Is that you
advocating such stuff as that ?" exclaimed
her uncle, in surprise and Indignation
81, too, have seen women and girls, and
occasionally man, who acted upon that
principle but had serious doubts of their
goodness. 1 never dreamed before, Alice,
that you were so selfish and unprincipled as
to think of doing such thing. If man
ought to feel ashamed to take a seat for
which he has honestly, paid, how ought a
young lady to feel who would not scruple
to practice gross deception for the sake of
retaining, for her own convenience, seat
to which she has no claim whatever. If
/ were willing to do such thing, my re-
spect for myself would be about as little as
it would be if l wished to steal from
passenger as much money as he had paid
for his car-fare 1t will be fully half an
hour, Alice, before Mike gets here with the
carriage. While we are waiting, will tell
you little incident that transpired in the
car when your Aunt Ruth and / went to
Richmond, last fall. We had a scat in the
rear end of the car. The first seat in front
of us was occupied by young lady-just
about your age, Alice, judging from her
looks. She was richly dressed and think
would be called handsome girl; but there
was something both in her looks and man
ner that was not pleasing to me, even be-
fore had heard her speak or hardly seen
her move. If any one had asked me what
disliked in her, it would have been diff
ficult to tell yet there was an intangible
something about her which gave me the
impression that she had no idea that the
Golden Rule Whatsoever ye would that
others should do to you do ye even SO to
them'-was intended for such as she. She
probably thought, Alice, that that divine
injunction was given for common people
ordinary-looking men and fussy old
women"
Your Aunt Ruth said that she believed
that about all Summeryille were going
somewhere that morning, the cars were so
rapidly filed. 1t is always amusing to me
to observe the difference in the dispositions
and manners OF the people who are seated
while others are passing through looking
for unoccupied seats. know of no better
place in which to study human nature than
the cars. l think that have seen more
curious phases of it while riding in them
than l ever saw in any other place.
observed the young lady in front of me that
morning with more interest than did any
other person, because l wanted to ascer-
tain whether was correct or not in the
opinion which had SO hastily formed of
her.
"One of the last passengers who came
in was white-haired, tottering old man.
He looked to the right and left of him for